Sentences with phrase «meaty role in»

I imagine his fairly meaty role in the game was due to the popularity of the slickly enjoyable Arrow TV show.

Sure, a meaty role in a likely Spielberg blockbuster is nothing...

That means he's got a super meaty role in two of the biggest movies of the summer.

With her role as the epnoymous character in Frida (2002), Hayek disappeared into her subject so convincingly that not only would she return to the good graces of critics, but earn an Oscar nomination as well.Hayek would spend the coming years enjoying superstar status with everything from comedic turns on sitcoms like Ugly Betty (which she produced) and 30 Rock, to meaty roles in dramatic thrillers like Savages.

Now the actor has gone Hollywood — in a good way — with two meaty roles in studio pictures.

While not traditionally beautiful according to the Hollywood standards of yore, the American actress Brittany Murphy had «jolie laide» looks — big, brown eyes, a slightly disdainful mouth, a pointed chin, just - out - of - bed hair — which she used to great effect as she combined parts in ditzy comedies like Clueless and Just Married to meatier roles in the dark thrillers Girl, Interrupted and Don't Say A Word.

But the meatiest role in this story of suffocating family bonds belongs to Bale, who plays Micky's ne'er - do - well trainer and half brother, Dicky Eklund, whose own career went off the rails when he developed a drug habit.

Not exact matches

Working in relative anonymity through the»70s and early»80s, appearing in films ranging from Serpico (1973) to Slapshot (1977) to Blade Runner (1982), Walsh landed his meatiest and most memorable role in Joel and Ethan Coen's remarkable debut, Blood Simple (1984).

Kang goes on to write, «[Director and writer Martin] McDonagh says he created Mildred in part as a corrective: He was «conscious» that his previous films, «In Bruges» and «Seven Psychopaths,» were bereft of meaty roles for women.&raquin part as a corrective: He was «conscious» that his previous films, «In Bruges» and «Seven Psychopaths,» were bereft of meaty roles for women.&raquIn Bruges» and «Seven Psychopaths,» were bereft of meaty roles for women.»

Alfred Molina, Hope Davis and Marcia Gay Harden all shine in very meaty roles and the credits are all top notch, especially Carter Burwell's score with a spot - on perfect song over the end credits.

While Boseman and Jordan hold center stage, the women's roles are especially meaty and muscular, with Lupita Nyong» o as T'Challa's self - sufficient former flame, «The Walking Dead's» Danai Gurira — stealing every scene she's in — as the fierce leader of the king's guard, and Letitia Wright as T'Challa's brilliant sister, whose gift for gadgets essentially makes her the Q to her big brother's James Bond.

It was director Gus Van Sant who afforded LeGros the opportunity to show his skills with a meaty supporting role in 1989's much - acclaimed Drugstore Cowboy.

While Hancock's films tend to be a tad rote and unremarkable, the prospect of seeing Keaton in such a meaty role is hard to resist, and indeed the actor looks to be knocking this one out of the park.

I'm a fan of all the actors here and they seem to all be handling meaty roles here in one of the boondoggles of our era.

The conventional wisdom in Hollywood is that meaty roles for women quickly dry up when actresses reach a certain age.

It was nice to see Shaye in a meaty role rather than be stooped to a exposition tool (my main issue with the first two films).

Naomie Harris is the bigger surprise on the cast list, seemingly content to come straight from Moonlight, where she tackled a meaty role full of depth, to being female sidekick in a monster movie.

His latest role, in which he appears alongside acclaimed stars Tim Roth and Samantha Morton, is equally meaty.

Weapons are meaty, with guttural base that just doesn't appear in most games, voice acting is high quality throughout, with Jen Taylor and Steve Downes reprising their roles and putting out a believably emotional performance.

He hasn't had a real, meaty honest - to - goodness lead role in some time (since Antichrist, really, and that was not exactly created for public consumption), and he's not a lead in The Florida Project, but it's a nuanced, satisfying part that has plenty of shade for Dafoe to sink into.

It's sounding like first - time writer / director JC Chandor and producer Quinto are putting together a strong company, with meaty roles for all, and Bettany's character in particular sounds as if he could be cherishably assholeish.

Haley previously directed another festival hit, «The New Year,» which featured another meaty role for a talented actress (in that case, Trieste Kelly Dunn, who plays a shiftless bowling alley worker with a maximum of relatability and charisma).

(The men have much less meaty roles, with Cooper doing his best as a callow boy - toy in over his head, but the gifted Considine is stuck in a nothing part that feels written as revenge for all the girl - hating in the similarly themed 50/50.)

Paul, whose career has gone from the dumb (Need for Speed) to the daft (A Long Way Down) since his Emmy Award - winning role in Breaking Bad, finally finds his feet in this neat indie, and his performance as Hollis, while much less meaty, is as engaging and fragile as his Jesse Pinkman.

Most notably, for such a supposedly amazing project with a meaty role, seemingly every actress in Hollywood had turned it down before landing on Miss Congeniality, including Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts, Natalie Portman, Marion Cotillard, Abbie Cornish, Carey Mulligan, Sienna Miller, Scarlett Johansson, Blake Lively, Rebecca Hall, Olivia Wilde and Angelina Jolie.

So it feels like a rare treat to see her given what looks to be a meaty leading role in this new one from writer / director Martin McDonagh.

At 67, she continues to land meaty leading roles and in movies that the public tends to take note of.

The Buzz: I suppose I should rave here about how excited I am to see Swank in another meaty dramatic role, but after Amelia, Black Dhalia and even Million Dollar Baby (yes, I'm one of the rare few who didn't like it) I can't say that I'm too terribly excited.

For the first time in quite a while, though, the film world has offered up what borders on an embarrassment of riches both in terms of meaty roles for women and talented actresses who can play those roles for all they're worth.

Secondary players like Albert Brooks (Drive), David Oyelowo (Selma), Alessandro Nivola (The Company), Peter Gerety (The Wire), Glenn Fleshler (Boardwalk Empire), and Elyes Gabel (World War Z) all get meaty enough roles playing morally gray figures caught up in Abel's mission - though the film itself doesn't use any of them for very distinctive purposes.

When the «Cheers» run finally ended in 1993, Woody wasted no time in jumping into some meatier, heavier roles.

Fed up with being unemployed, Michael employs some desperate measures whereby he dons a wig, make - up and dress in order to try to land a meaty role on a popular soap opera meant for a woman.

Original Avenger Hawkeye / Renner has also yet to get the meaty co-starring role Johansson received in The Winter Solider and Mark Ruffalo's the Hulk is getting in this year's Thor: Ragnarok.

Apparently a huge fan of English TV star Miranda Hart (an unknown in the USA), Feig gives her a funny and meaty role, and she almost steals the film from McCarthy at times; they're like a kind of female Laurel and Hardy.

Plus, Elisha Cook Jr. in a meaty supporting role.

Looking forward to seeing Rosamund Pike in such a meaty role...

It's fantastic to see Jolie in a meaty role once more.

Most of the buzz is based on the theory that Williams has been great thus far in the likes of Wendy And Lucy, Meek's Cutoff, and her Oscar - nominated roles, so she's likely to do something good with her meaty opportunity here.

Unfortunately, while The Monster gives Kazan a meaty, sometimes challenging role, it doesn't offer much in the way of a comeback for Bertino.

Nick Nolte and Neil Patrick Harris are always welcome in movies, but when they are stealing the roles of Butch and Lou, they kind of awkwardly feature, rather than deliver meaty performances.

Whatever its shortcomings, writer / director Onur Tukel's gleefully unhinged Catfight earns and maintains our respect for providing Anne Heche and Sandra Oh with the meatiest roles either has been handed in years.

The stellar supporting cast — which features a good share of meaty roles for more women warriors — gamely plays its parts, but Gadot provides enough wonder to lift the movie and haul it through when the third act threatens to bog down in gloomy DC movie mode.

His role, although played well, isn't really meaty enough for someone of his stature, and we like him too much to want to see him in the unscrupulous shark role.

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Weapons are meaty, with guttural base that just doesn't appear in most games, voice acting is high quality throughout, with Jen Taylor and Steve Downes reprising their roles and putting out a believably emotional performance.

This means that both the farming simulation parts, as well as the role - playing ones feel weak compared to the rest in the genre, leaving JRPG fans with a hunger for something meatier, and farming simulator fans with a hunger for a more focused farming game.

Next up, get ready for a meaty series of Q&A s with artists and curators about the role and impact of money in the art world.

We keep dancing around the idea of hiring new roles in law firms and thinking about innovation — putting technology in place — but we're missing the meaty part of the conversation, which is who is going to uproot this entire model?»