Sentences with phrase «juicy role»

Since that coming - of - age tale opened in 2009, she's been picking up one juicy role after another.

But with his superb work as Harvey Pekar in the biopic American Splendor, Giamatti proved he could carry the lead, too, and his breakthrough there led to even juicier roles in films like Sideways, Cinderella Man (which earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination), Lady In The Water, The Illusionist, and the title role in the HBO miniseries John Adams, which swept the Emmys and earned him a Best Actor prize.

Handed the potentially juicy role of young Anakin Skywalker (Darth Vader to you and me) he had all the charisma of a mannequin.

Weisz, who is also one of the producers of Disobedience, told Variety that she read «a lot of lesbian literature» while hunting for a story that would provide juicy roles for women.

As the tensions escalate, the film provides juicy roles for both Hall and Bateman — the latter in particular bringing to the forefront a side of his persona he's rarely shown.

Idris Elba tunes in beautifully to the elaborate Aaron Sorkin dialogue in Molly's Game, and Sam Rockwell gets his own juicy role from a famous wordsmith, Martin McDonagh, in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Unsurprisingly, it's Benicio Del Toro — in a typically juicy role as Alejandro, a morally flexible mercenary — who nearly runs away with the scene and the movie.

Screenwriter Steven Knight and director Susanna White have here created juicy roles for Jessica Chastain and the charismatic Canadian actor Michael Greyeyes.

It paints an evocative picture of Hollywood and the methodology of filmmaking, circa 1961, while offering juicy roles to Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks, two of the finest actors of their generation.

Nonetheless, this is a fun film, which doles out juicy roles of substance to two actors who have proven their worth again and again.

Saldana adds a good amount of emotion to the picture as well, and it is fun to see Dafoe in a small but juicy role as Petty.

A gorgeous, big - scale movie, set in 1931 Shanghai, it provides juicy roles for China's Zhang Ziyi and Hong Kong's Cecilia Cheung Pak - chi.

for a player who has made just 10 starts since 2014 I say that is a hood job if you can get it, I wonder why we just don't name Arsenal Football Club Arsenal Football Charity because no sooner had we drop some money draining Mon performing players we have quiet a few waiting to take up the juicy roles, joke!!

Church brilliantly sketches the kind of man who would wear a trucker hat to a meeting with a lawyer and Gershon gets her juiciest role in years.

She got another juicy role the following year as older woman Joyce Fickett in A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon opposite earthy teen heartthrob River Phoenix.

Hugh Grant is no less great (and has terrific chemistry with Streep) in his juiciest role in years as St. Clair.

The good news is that South Korean superstar Choi Min - Sik (Oldboy) gets a mainstream American debut in a juicy role that nonetheless feels like a wasted opportunity (see: Beat Takeshi in Johnny Mnemonic).

It also offers New Zealand actress Melanie Lynskey (Heavily Creatures, Happy Christmas) one of her juiciest roles to date as the lead character, a nursing assistant who has lost all faith in humanity and then finds herself chasing after some petty criminals who stole her laptop and heirloom silverware.

Brühl and Hemsworth play off each other wonderfully, although the former clearly has the juicier role due to his character's more dramatic story arc.

In this drama about a retired Hollywood screen cowboy reckoning with his estranged family and career frustrations, Elliott has his juiciest role to date.

It's the story of a genius artist who is engulfed in a lifetime pool of blood and tears that gives her the foundation for her art to flourish, but here Frida is played by a proud actress ill prepared to get into such depths and who only sees Frida from the selfish standpoint of getting a juicy role.

In his more than fifty years as an actor, Dustin Hoffman has enjoyed several lifetimes» worth of great movies and juicy roles.

As was the case with Hot Fuzz, Pegg gets the juiciest role.

With juicy roles a scarcity, he agrees to play aging «Uncle Frank» and rounds out the supporting cast in an outstanding comedic role that adds light, humor and welcome reprieve in a wartime setting.

No projects are set to bring her back to movies, but let's hope Mike Leigh or Paul Thomas Anderson have another juicy role lined up for her.

However, 2019 promises to be different as she headlines Tate Taylor's («The Help») twisty thriller «Ma,» which promises her a juicy role.

Meryl Streep will be giving Bullock a run for her money with her juicy role in «August: Osage County».

Though a missed opportunity to give an amputated actor the juiciest role since Harold Russell's Oscar - winning turn in The Best Years of Our Lives, casting AnnaSophia Robb in the lead allows her to add another impressive performance to her strong filmography, this one raising clout and familiarity as her last few projects did not.

«It felt like a juicy role, so we approached him about it,» she says.

Writer / director Mike White recognizes that innate contradiction and reconciles it in the biting satire «Brad's Status,» giving Stiller a juicy role that's sharply funny and surprisingly poignant.

Even better is Vanilla Ice, who is gift - wrapped the juicy role of himself, an ice rink concession stand worker who still parties hard with his boy Donny.

Just 20, Shakur had only a cameo as part of Digital Underground in Chevy Chase's flop Nothing but Trouble when he was cast as Roland Bishop, the juiciest role of Juice.

How is Shia LaBeouf in his juicy role across from girlfriend (in both real life and on screen) Carey Mulligan?

Ralph Fiennes squeezes every last drop from this juicy role.

Here we have a stupendous award - winning actress in the juiciest role this story has to offer.

It's the same every year: the Best Actor category is packed with juicy roles.

Janney maybe, I could see Manville back if she gets a juicy role in a movie with great exposure.

In an early movie version of the beloved and oft - filmed classic novel, Hepburn gets the juiciest role in «Little Women» as Jo, the tomboy of the four March sisters in a genteelly impoverished family struggling with their father's absence during the Civil War.

Hans in Seven Psychopaths is one of your juiciest roles in quite some time.

But «Split» offers James McAvoy a chance to take this concept to an entirely new level, resulting in one of the juiciest roles the genre has seen in years.

Not everyone gets as big, juicy role.

And Ronit is a juicy role, a character who is resentful but also wounded by her failure to patch things up with her father before his death.

Instead of exploiting his looks, he opts for juicier roles, ones that require thought and acting ability.

It's a hilarious farce and Walken, in his juiciest role in years, steals the show.

Releasing on October 21, 2016 (probably in a roll - out release across the U.S.), this movie has star - power with James Franco and Christian Slater in juicy roles.

However, one potential obstacle to Adams» win would be the fact that her co-star may in fact have the juicier role.