And for
more kid actor casting notices, check out the rest of our audition listings, which you can sort by age!
Not exact matches
While the date may have changed, the
actors have all new faces and the details slightly different, the story is the same: a new, cocky
kid comes around claiming to be the next best thing and for a while he holds true to his word and convinces the world that he is better, stronger and
more capable than his rival.
But as a simplistic celebration of overcoming - adversity clichés, «Real Steel» may have the edge because its aim is to entertain
kids, wearing its obviousness on its sleeve rather than disguising it behind performances by
actors who by rights are worthy of
more complex material than the O'Connor offers them.
It's nice if they can spare
more funds to their
actors, but its kind of just sentimentality that makes people focus on just saving these few
kids and ignoring not just everyone else in India, but the dozens of other minor characters in Slumdog.
In an interview about Spy
Kids 2, veteran
actor Ricardo Montalban comments: «I love playing this grandfather who has so much vitality and excitement to him and I hope it will open
more doors for showing the elderly on screen.
I'll give the roles to
more well known
actors than the
kids [in «Moonrise Kingdom»].
• «The
Kids Are All Right,» with major nominations including picture, actress (Annette Bening), supporting
actor Mark Ruffalo) and screenplay (Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg), joins «Milk» among top nominees with a homosexual subject, and in a way is
more meaningful because it shows a functioning family rather than a single person.
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.
That this filmmaker /
actor / musician manages to wage such a thrilling and enlightening «war,» with sheer fearlessness and passion as his only weapons, says
more about a certain soulless industry machine than it does about Flooding with Love for the
Kid.
Other names I wanted to squeeze in but had a hard time doing so: Dakota Fanning (needs
more time to erase the
kid actor thing), Jenna Malone, Scarlett Johansson (seems to be deliberately derailing her Oscar promise, but one day she'll wake up to the reality of having and then losing power in Hollywood), Emily Blunt — she seems headed that way but to me has shown enough depth or versatility yet.
Scott Speedman, who always looks like some slightly
more famous
actor the producers couldn't afford, is once again a bland place - holder, convincing neither as a rich
kid nor a bad boy but remaining at least inoffensive.
The
actor's soul - deep performance as Bobby, a motel manager working the low - rent fringes of Orlando's theme - park «paradise,» is alert to every nuance, and his achievement is even
more notable considering the scene - stealing
kid actors he's surrounded by.
The film, about the founding of the Barnum & Bailey Circus, is casting child
actors in New York, plus
more great gigs for
kids!
«We were the preacher's
kids, so wherever we lived my mother felt we just had to keep up appearances a little bit
more,» the
actor has remembered, but stressed that her father, in the pulpit, was
more of a heaven - warm than hellfire preacher.
The
kid actors are fine but asked to be little
more than slapstick variations on the same old same old: the myopic one, the morbidly obese one, the one destined for bigger things, and the future writer.
The 100 authors include a former U.S. President and other politicians, award - winning
actors and TV personalities, celebrity chefs, and
more, along with some of the biggest and bestselling authors across adult,
kids and teen.
Use
more than one camera: Professional human
actors say
kids and animals are the most unpredictable to work with.