Sentences with phrase «like child actors»

«He was like a child actor that was always on the set with his father,» Darren's father Dusty Baker said.

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Shapiro started his career as a syndicated conservative columnist at the age of 17 but wrote a critique in February of Parkland activists like Hogg and Gonzalez, pointing out their youth and saying, «Children and teenagers are not fully rational actors.

Some, like your opinion regarding the morality of killing children and infants, bend over backwards to add qualifying supplemental characteristics to the actor to excuse said actor from the premise (which in itself betrays the relative / subjective nature of the argument).

For two decades, the critically acclaimed actor has sought roles that challenge big ideas and present complicated characters like 12 Years a Slave (for which he was nominated for a best actor Oscar), Mary Magdalene (he plays Peter), Children of Men, Amistad and dozens of others.

Puppets of your child's favorite Disney Junior characters interact with live actors who sing, dance, and solve problems just like on television.

It was the early»80s, and Nixon soon fell into the pack of child actors making after - school specials and message movies like Little Darlings and My Body, My Child, in which she and Sarah Jessica Parker starred as the daughters of a woman — Vanessa Redgrave — agonizing over whether to abort a child with severe birth defchild actors making after - school specials and message movies like Little Darlings and My Body, My Child, in which she and Sarah Jessica Parker starred as the daughters of a woman — Vanessa Redgrave — agonizing over whether to abort a child with severe birth defChild, in which she and Sarah Jessica Parker starred as the daughters of a woman — Vanessa Redgrave — agonizing over whether to abort a child with severe birth defchild with severe birth defects.

Small farmers could be key actors in reforming Indonesia's palm oil industry, which has been linked to child and forced labor, deforestation and the demise of iconic species like orangutans.

Banderas» charming, often comic performance, a cute one by child actor Adrian Alonso as Zorro's son and pint - sized counterpart, an amusing one by Rufus Sewell, who plays his villainous role as a Hispanic Christopher Walken, some imaginative PG - rated methods of disposing of the bad guys and a number of rather audacious parallels to contemporary politics and warfare place this clearly in the «guilty pleasure» category; like the original, it's notably longer than it has any right to be (perhaps Steven Spielberg executive producing both of them is a factor?)

There are also perfect miniature performances from Mason Gamble as Max's chapel partner (for a child actor, he deadpans lines like «with friends like you, who needs friends?»

Studios want to hire kids with genuine depth like Brad Renfro, but the system in place to protect child actors isn't equipped for when their lives go perilously downhill.

JJ Abrams follow up from «Star Trek» didn't live up to the hype necessarily but it did give an even enough story while showing great works from child actors Joel Courtney and Elle Fanning in this «E.T. - like» aura stricken film that has great sound and visual effects.

It's a cute idea, but it gets old real fast as the script constantly tries to mine laughs from the same few jokes and undermines emotional moments with stupid stuff like ostrich rodeos, bad child actors and rhinos having sex.

My fears seemed to be confirmed in the first few minutes Favreau's film, as it begins with jittery close - ups of young «man - cub» Mowgli (newcomer Neel Sethi, who's neither a standout nor annoying like most child actors) running and jumping across tree branches in the jungle.

Winstead is incredibly patient and maternal as the girl's interest in the task at hand waxes and wanes; this is a rare and fascinating glimpse of what it's like to work with child actors, as well as a reminder of the value of supplementary content — something streaming platforms threaten to extinguish.

Yes, there are some clichés like a small child singing an eerie song, but they've still got a great hook with the labyrinth house designed to cage ghosts plus excellent actors with Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke, and Sarah Snook.

In many ways, Zathura feels like a Spielberg creation, and while Favreau may not have the prodigious conception of Spielberg when it comes to making a truly magical movie, he does have a great knack for getting superb and very realistic performances from his child actors, which is something Spielberg has sometimes struggled to do.

Like The Adventures Of Tintin, though, The BFG exhausted me more than delighted me — partly because I was constantly conscious of how difficult it must have been to choreograph and execute shots, partly because Barnhill belongs to the Hayley Mills tradition of «spunky» child actors who only vaguely resemble actual little kids.

Goyo comes off not as a child but as a child actor who is trying to act like a child.

Ryan Gosling (born 12.11.1980) is a Canadian actor who came up through the ranks, first as a child star on the Mickey Mouse Club and then graduating to adult roles in the likes of Half Nelson and Blue Valentine.

A Kid Like Jake Comedian and actor Silas Howard had a memorable recurring run on the first season of Transparent, and now he steps behind the camera to direct this drama about two parents (Claire Danes and Jim Parsons) who are navigating their young child's unique gender expression.

KW: Lisa would also like to know whether you already wanted to grow up to be a serious actor when you were on the Mickey Mouse Club as a child?

Actors flail about and sneer their line readings like children acting out Power Rangers scenarios.

We had lunch on the patio behind the Four Seasons Hotel, surrounded by actors like Joseph Gordon - Levitt (a fellow former child star on the precipice of his own grown - up fame) and Bill Paxton, on a gorgeous spring day.

It's not the end of civilization, just symptomatic of how easy it is to get laughs on the backs of the disenfranchised — and of how African - American actors get awards for singing and acting like criminals (or bright children and athletes) but generally get paid for acting the fool.

Like its two neighbors, Martian Child finds Cusack in a parental role, though this is actually aimed at family audiences, a rarity in the expansive filmography that spans well over half the actor's 41 years.

Actor James Marsden rarely steals the spotlight at home - his children don't even like to watch his films and often fast - forward through his...

In the film, Northup is played by British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, best known to American audiences — if known at all — from movies like Love Actually, Melinda and Melinda, Serenity, Children of Men, 2012 and / or Salt, among others.

Whatever the intention, it's mangled by Gregg's inability to convincingly psychologize Howard beyond boilerplate facts and simple motivations, like Howard having been a child actor himself.

«Acting Like Children»: Dana Andrews on Working With Otto Preminger The actor speaks about being on set with the great director.

If you are in your early 30s, like yours truly, you may get a kick out the fact that this is a mini Angels in the Outfieldreunion from when Gordon - Levitt was a child actor.

As a relatively newly minted father himself, actor - director - Scranton prankster John Krasinski seems to be sharing with us in his horror debut something deeply personal, an epiphany that has struck him, like it might another parent, as horrifying: There will eventually come a day when your children need you and you just can't be there for them.

If an adult likes big budget sci - fi eye - candy filled epics developed from children's stories or simply liked the cartoons when they were younger and think its cool to see them brought to life on the big screen with live actors and modern special effects, then they will probably enjoy this movie — if they can sit through it all.

The virtues essentially stop with the shot design and the work of Edward Norton (himself being a sort of walking meta joke, as his character arrives on scene and immediately begins armchair directing and taking control, something for which Norton himself has been infamous on set), and while the other actors are fine, they do not manage to separate themselves as anything other than puppets for Inarritu's agenda, who looms over every frame like some petulant child with a grudge and a budget that allowed him to force his opinions on an unwitting public.

He really seems to have a good rapport with his young co-star, and when asked about what it was like working with a child actor, he was incredibly flattering:

The Florida Project is not a movie about bullies, like many movies featuring child actor primaries are these days.

It's disappointing to see actors like Amy Adams and Kristen Bell, who have previously played such charming and strong female characters, suddenly starring in movies that require them to be helpless little children.

Curious about what it's like to be a child actor, a standup comedian, a podcast star or some combination of the above (and beyond)?

The best known titles that are available at launch are: The Hunger Games, Think and Grow Rich, and The Power of Now; revealing interviews with celebrities like John Lennon, Jack Nicholson and Lady Gaga; stand - up comedy performances by comedians like Aziz Ansari, Jon Stewart and George Carlin; guided meditation and hypnosis sessions to help people relax, become inspired and lose weight; children's story classics like Where the Wild Things Are, Clifford the Big Red Dog, and Goodnight Moon; business training from leaders like Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracy, and John Assaraf; and author theater performances starring award - winning actors like Neil Patrick Harris, Hilary Swank and Laurence Fishburne.

I draw / paint for example; singers, actors people you like, your Child, grand Child yourself.

There was, for example, her superintendent's son; a Vogue design director, Ron Kajiwara, who as a child was detained in a California internment camp; many children who knocked on her door when they found out she painted «Spanish kids»; and public figures like the actor and playwright Alice Childress.

Looking Pretty for God (After G.W.)(2008) focuses on an undertaker explaining how make - up can be used to make a dead body appear more alive, with his testimony sometimes voiced by child actors: «When people say she looks like she's sleeping, that's the best compliment you can get.»

There are only rare cases when such policies are justified, Jay said, like when a child is a high - earning actor.

You can ask for specific titles, actors, or topics, or make more esoteric requests like «children's princess movies» and have those dug up for you.

The children watched a series of stimulus movies in which an actor expressed her liking or disliking towards two different objects and then announced that she was going to grasp one of them.

All of this nonsense is overseen by an industry that constantly claims that it can govern itself (on behalf of the public interest) financed by its own in - house actors, of whom there are too many amateurs and of whom there are not enough professionals... on a constantly rotating basis... like a merry - go -» round of city - slicker children constantly jumping onto a fast moving bucking bronco brigade and very soon thereafter being bucked off either by centrifugal G - forces or by too rough a ride... only to have their still warm saddles occupied by others waiting to be hurled off those same said seats like sideways leaping gnomes... after their dues, I mean, ticket prices, have been paid to the operator (Organized Real Estate).