Sentences with phrase «leading actors play»

Its a good premise - road rip with extra Icelandic - Japanese culture clash - the scenery is stunning, the lead actor plays a nice mixture of confusion and adaption, and there's a cameo by Seijun Suzuki as the wise old grandfather.

Not exact matches

When paired onscreen with actors living fully in the present — playing characters who are defined by their relationship with the lead rather than by their own complicated backstories — DiCaprio is again made to suffer.

Films like J. Edgar and The Aviator (for which he got a Leading Role nomination) require him to play a single character through many stages of his life, never allowing the actor to fully inhabit characters at a single point in time.

A big reason: Hopper had decided not just to direct but also to play the lead in the movie after he couldn't find the right actor during a series of auditions.

While in the midst of putting together one of her perfectly structured pay - for - play deals to help kill an import - tax bill (even hiring actors as instigators among the protesters), Sloane is asked to take the lead in her firm helping the gun lobby attract scared moms.

While the lead role had been played by Jeremy Jordan during Finding Neverland's sold - out tryout run this summer at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., that actor's name was conspicuously absent from discussion of the show's move to Broadway in the spring.

Farmiga, who starred opposite George Clooney in the hit movie «Up in the Air,» told CNN that she began panicking during preproduction, as the magnitude of the undertaking - simultaneously directing and playing the lead role, lots of child actors, and 25 scenes that included music - became clear.

He delivers a knockout performance in the lead role as Caesar that should cause critics to give pause and ponder the possibility of an actor playing a GC character being in contention this awards season.

Actor Robert Redford, who plays the lead in the new baseball movie «The Natural,» is himself a fine athlete.

Cristiano Ronaldo went supernova, Wayne Rooney solidified his claim as one of the greatest Premier League players of all time, and Carlos Tevez played a leading man who was disguised as a character actor.

A new play focussed on the controversial MP Enoch Powell will star Star Wars actor Ian McDiarmid in the lead role.

Lead actors Rebecca Front and Peter Capaldi, who plays foul mouthed director of communications Malcom Tucker, also came back with awards.

Just when scientists thought they had deciphered the roles played by the cell's leading actors, a familiar performer has turned up in a stunning variety of guises.

Previously, other molecular actors had been thought to play leading roles in triggering excess protein production directed by myc.

Others who have died from HIV and AIDS include Queen's lead vocalist and songwriter Freddie Mercury; heartthrob actor Rock Hudson; Anthony Perkins, who played Norman Bates in the psychological thriller Psycho; TV dad Robert Reed of The Brady Bunch; and Tom Fogerty, lead singer of the rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Blake started his own film career as an actor in 1943; he played bits in A-movies and leads in B - movies, paying his dues in such trivialities as Gangs of the Waterfront and Strangler of the Swamp (both 1945).

Maïwenn brings up the dirty and dark side of Paris with the help of an excellent team of child actors - Malonn Lévana, the lovely little girl of «Tomboy» (where she plays the sister of the leading character) is someone to keep an eye on - and the best known actors of the French cinema of today: Marina Foïs, Sandrine Kiberlain, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Frédéric Pierrot, Karin Viard, Louis - Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing (L'heure d'été, Le père de mes enfants), Jérémie Elkaïm (La guerre est déclarée), Karole Rocher, and others.

Just a few years before The Great Escape would catapult Steve McQueen to stardom, the charismatic actor played the lead, Lt. Fergie Howard, in this light romantic farce involving the computers on a Navy ship.

Taking a step back from leading roles, the actor then poked fun at the movie industry with a cameo in director Kevin Smith's satire Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back before playing a supporting part opposite Christina Ricci in the big - screen adaptation of Elizabeth Wurtzel's memoir, Prozac Nation.

With the most close - up shot I have ever seen in a movie the lead character played by Noa Kooler shows so much emotions with her mouth and eyes than most actors with their entire body.

The lead role is played with impressive emotional and physical openness by cisgender actor Victor Polster, an issue acknowledged by critics, but one that for most did not diminish the power of the filmmaking.

, can you tell us more about the «Quasi-Deads» please... I also think the actor playing the lead villain was trying too hard to make a memorable bad guy, felt a bit too forced to me.

Celebrated as a fine stage actor, he recently had a triumphant return to Canada's renowned Stratford Shakespeare Festival where he played two lead roles, Cyrano de Bergerac, directed by his wife, Donna Feore, and MacBeth.

The lead actors are typecast, with Ferrell being goofy SNL - style, Vince Vaughn doing the loudmouth jackass thing he did so well in Swingers and Made and Luke Wilson acting as the straight man like in Bottle Rocket or Legally Blonde, but the refreshing thing is how the three play off each other.

He first gained prominence as one of Canada's premiere stage actors through thirteen seasons with the prestigious Stratford Festival, playing virtually all of Shakespeare's leading men, from Richard III and Iago to Romeo and Hamlet.

In 1937, however, he got a rare chance to play a lead onscreen, as Petersen in Elephant Boy, an unusual documentary - drama co-directed by Robert Flaherty and Zoltan Korda, which is best remembered today for having introduced the boy actor Sabu to the world.

Black Panther celebrates black excellence, and nearly every role — lead, supporting, or otherwise — is played by a talented black actor.

The actor also played the lead role of a blinded Vietnam vet in the Joseph Papp - produced CBS drama special Sticks and Bones (1973) which was blacked out by many affiliates due to its vitriolic antiwar stance.

It looks like Sony is aiming high for the lead role in Bloodshot, the first offering from the studio's shared Valiant movie universe, with The Wrap reportedly revealing a wishlist of actors to play the title character.

At last year's Emmys, when lead actor Bryan Cranston beat out Dexter «s Michael C. Hall and Mad Men «s Jon Hamm, the underdog bite in the W mirrored that of Walter White «s, the cancer - stricken, primo meth - cooking family man he plays.

In 2012, his role in One Man, Two Guvnors won him Best Leading Actor in a Play.

Michael Kenneth Williams, an actor known for playing a cop cuckolded by a midget in Trapped In The Closet and probably an HBO show or something, has landed the lead role in The Spoils Before Dying, IFC's follow - up to The Spoils Of Babylon.

I'm less familiar with Holbrook (who plays the lead villain in Logan), but this is a combination of actors that I'm eager to see fight aliens together.

Other nominees include Australian actor Margot Robbie, who began her career playing Donna Freedman in the long - running soap Neighbours and made her name in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street opposite Leonard DiCaprio, and Shailene Woodley, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in the 2011 film The Descendants, starring George Clooney, and took the lead role in the 2014 film adaptation of The Fault In Our Stars.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the «Fruitvale Station» actor is expected to play the lead role in the revamped version.

With the 2017 Oscar season is still in its infancy, the only lead actor currently favored to get on the ballot who plays a father is Mark Rylance, as he commandeers a tugboat with his son aboard in «Dunkirk.»

The Oscar - nominated actor eyed to play Christ opposite Rooney Mara's Mary Magdalene, and to take the lead in Jacques Audiard's English - language debut

The young female cast of supporting actors — led by Gordon and including Gillian Jacobs, Adria Arjona, Jessie Ennis and Debby Ryan — is up to the task of playing opposite McCarthy.

The story is very good, as well as the acting and I enjoyed the chemistry of the two lead actors, Joseph Gordon - Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, whom are well suited for the parts they play.

It also features a lead character who is split between two identities, both played by Watts: bright eyed aspiring actor Betty Elms fresh off the bus in Hollywood, and bitter failed actor Diane Selwyn who may or may not have murdered her lover.

Fassbender's this perfect Aaron Sorkin lead — abrasive but almost always right, condescending but strangely earnest — and Boyle just sits back and watches him go, watches him play off the other actors, who are doing different things.

Depp, though one of the world's most recognized stars, rarely plays typical leading man roles and Cooper is a former actor («The X-Files,» «Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me) turned instantly acclaimed...

This Oscar - nominated companion piece to 2006's Days of Glory reunites Bouchareb with his three lead actors, playing different characters (with the same names) through the following 15 years of French - Algerian history.

Jack Huston, the British actor best known for Boardwalk Empire, has signed on to play the lead in the upcoming remake of The Crow.

Though Rinsch deserves some credit for convincing a major studio to green light a Keanu Reeves vehicle with Japanese screen veteran Hiroyuki Sanada, and not Reeves, playing the main lead, the actor's presence ultimately proves to be more of a distraction than an advantage.

Another story has newlyweds played by Alessandro Tiberi and Alessandro Mastronardi in a series of innocent happenstance that leads to some not so innocent events that include her favorite actor (Antonio Albanes) and high - priced call girl (Penelope Cruz).

All but one of the actors has previously played their superheroes in other movies leading up to this one.

After failing to win the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (he lost to Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr. Chips, which is a very good performance in a fine film, but come on), James Stewart was rewarded by the Academy the very next year for The Philadelphia Story, in which he plays third lead to Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in George Cukor's monumental screwball.

The Crown star Claire Foy is already locked down in the lead role of hacker Lisbeth Salander, and Swedish actor Sverrir Gudnason is playing her journalist companion Mikael Blomkvist.

Magic Mike's lead actor Alex Pettyfer who plays the stripping rookie in the Steven Soderbergh production has picked up another role.