Granted, Hollywood still has a problem of creating substantive
female lead roles in films it wants to release in more than nine theaters, but at least this is something of progress.
Greig was nominated for a BIFA for
her lead role in the film TAMARA DREW, directed by Stephen Frears.
Nat Wolff, who co-starred in TFiOS, has been attached to play
the lead role in the film since the adaptation was first announced, and now they've cast model Cara Delvingne as Margo Roth - Spiegelman.
That UCLA report on diversity in 2016 films helps to ground the Oscars against reality: Less than 7 % of directors of the top 200 films that year were women; people of color represented only 13.9 % of
lead roles in films.
And with General Okoye fast becoming a fan - favorite character in both Black Panther and her brief appearance in Avengers: Infinity War, it would be great to see her take on
the lead role in film about the Dora Milaje.
Cumberbatch is executive producing and planning to take on
the lead role in a film based on McEwan's 1987 novel The Child In Time, Deadline reports.
I said, «Holy shit, I got
the lead role in the film.»
She has
the lead role in the film adaptation of bestselling novel The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society, which will be released here on April 20.
If you didn't know,
the leading role in the film, detective Hercule Poirot, is featured in a series of books by the late author.
Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan) has been the only one cast to tackle
the leading role in the film up until this point, so I wonder if she'll still own the role if this film ever gets going.
Affleck will be playing
the lead role in the film with Jon Hamm [also stars in the hit TV show Mad Men] playing the agent in charge of the investigation for Ben Affleck's character.
Julianne Moore plays a washed - up actor trying to get
the lead role in a film about her mother, a star from the bygone age.
Affleck will also take
the lead role in the film, a based - in - fact tale of a CIA agent who fakes a movie shoot in order to rescue a group of diplomats trapped in Tehran after the 1979 revolution.
Harry Dean Stanton is one of our great actors and it is odd to look back over his career and realize that, with the exception of «Paris, Texas,» «Lucky» is pretty much the only time that he has ever had
the lead role in a film.
The Predator has been filling out its cast, and recent rumors claimed that Conor McGregor had been offered
the lead role in the film.
«Dheepan» marks his first
leading role in a film (after a supporting part in the 2011 Indian film «Sengadal»), but his commanding screen presence suggests it will not be his last.
Character actors are supporting actors who are usually skilled at playing interesting or unusual characters, but not usually
the lead roles in a film.
THR has word that Marvel has their eye on Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) for
a leading role in the film, but there's no specifics on what character he might play.
Jordan played
the lead role in the film, which was based on the real - life story of Oscar Grant, who was fatally shot by a BART police officer in Oakland, California, in 2009.
Earlier this week, we reported that the Belle star was in consideration for
a lead role in the film.
The heroic figure of Charlton Heston (an iconic and righteous Moses figure) would again be commissioned to play
the lead role in this film of a Jewish nobleman (the Prince of Judea)- after the role was turned down by Burt Lancaster, Rock Hudson and Paul Newman.
Denzel Washington is reportedly being pursued for
the lead role in the film adaptation of 80's TV show, «The Equalizer.»
Zoë is taking the next step in her career with taking
the lead role in the film «Raze».
Mr. Holmes by Hope Madden The last time the great Ian McKellen donned
the lead role in a film for director Bill Condon, he was rightfully nominated for an Oscar.
Twenty Seven years since Lily Tomlin has taken
a lead role in a film.
Imagine you are a director casting
a lead role in your film.