Sentences with phrase «of cameo roles»

Writing in The Telegraph, the 70 - year - old actress said: «Our director is trying to lock down the casting of cameo roles between takes and sometimes I have to sit with her in a nice chair, eating a delicious Brie baguette, and throwing out names like «Benedict Cumberbatch».

Just a few days ago, Demi Moore was forced to drop out of her cameo role as Gloria Steinem in the biopic Lovelace.

Not exact matches

But arguably the most anticipated bit of casting is Joe Pesci, who has only had two credits to his name this century: A cameo in De Niro's 2006 CIA drama «The Good Shepherd» and a lead role in Taylor Hackford's 2010 flop «Love Ranch.»

The producers said this is the first time in the history of the Roman Catholic Church that a Pope has agreed to play a cameo role in a film.

In all of the programs, the audience remains passive, merely fulfilling a cameo role as representatives of the viewing audience.

The English players that Wenger had brought through the Arsenal system all seem to have ongoing injury problems, and although Wilshere and Walcott have been given some cameo roles in the last couple of games, the whole starting XI that have taken the field for the last six games have ALL been foreigners (except for the Welshman Aaron Ramsey I guess).

Having said that, don't be surprised if Walcott turns up for the last 20 - 25 minutes of a game and gets into the groove straightaway, as the cameo roles are designed to do just that.

Drogba has been of real use in a cameo supporting role this term, netting six goals despite starting just seven fixtures.

Sometimes, as a fringe player (Chamberlain has started only 4 of the 8 games in the Premier League), it's easy to dish out top - drawer performances when you are asked to do a cameo role for the team, and very least is expected of you.

That win kicked off a new era of success at Barcelona and Iniesta won over the doubters to graduate from a cameo role and become the heart of Pep Guardiola's midfield.

Rashford has started only five of the last 16 matches and, although he came on for the closing stages at the Etihad Stadium, «is said to be exasperated with his cameo role status.»

They are also boosted by the return of several key men, with goalkeeper Wojciech Szszcensy playing the full 90 - minutes against Liverpool at the weekend as Alex Song also played a cameo role after a lengthy injury lay - off.

Giroud, 31, has found himself reduced to a cameo role at Arsenal over the last year with Arsene Wenger's preferred tactics and the summer arrival of fellow France international forward Alexandre Lacazette limiting his opportunities.

Giroud was rewarded for his brace against Sunderland with a first starting role of the season — Alexis shifted to the left — while Ramsey also made the starting XI after his impressive cameo on Saturday.

We have not seen too much of Ben Davies recently, apart from a cameo role against Watford so Danny Rose could be rested for the Chelsea game.

Readers of Melissa Kite's Tamsin Lightwater column for the Spectator - now, alas, defunct - will have noted that from time to time it gave a cameo role to David Davis.

STM also played a cameo role in another of Banks's Brexit vehicles.

Be it Enos reprising her thankless wife role from «Gangster Squad,» to Ludi Boeken as an exposition - dumping Mossad agent, to Peter Capaldi and Ruth Negga as scientists so thankless they're literally credited as Scientists despite being central to the third act, most of the players that crop up on Pitt's travels are perfunctory at best (to say nothing of Matthew Fox, inexplicably fifth - billed in a part that's not so much a cameo as a day - player gig — presumably he has more left on the cutting room floor).

Rodgers and Hammerstein returned to Hollywood in 1955 with their own production company, overseeing the movie adaptations of Oklahoma (1955) and South Pacific (1958); three years earlier, R and H played cameo roles in the New York - filmed Main Street to Broadway, for which they contributed one forgettable number.

As they begin to convert their modest Long Island home into a white statue - laden mansion, the first order of business is to construct a haunted house for Halloween to impress their working - class neighbors, who are portrayed by movie stars and comedians in cameo roles.

After appearing in a pair of supporting roles (Trapped in Paradise and The Road to Wellville (both 1994)-RRB- and a cameo (1996's The Shot) shortly thereafter, Carvey disappeared almost entriely from the public eye until resurfacing in the 1999 Saturday Night Live; Presidential Bash and once again taking a small role in Adam Sandler's Little Nicky (2000).

You're already likely to have seen a brief glimpse of the caricature Mike Tyson plays of himself, but there's a lot more to his role than just a cameo done for an easy laugh, and he really brings a lot to the table.

Bill Pullman, one of my favorite actors has just a cameo role which was disappointing.

Most of Hale's talkie roles were unbilled bits, or guest cameos in films that spotlighted other silent movie veterans (e.g. Hollywood Boulevard and The Perils of Pauline).

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.

After making a cameo as herself in The Muppets in 2011, Silverman went a different direction by taking on a dramatic role in Take This Waltz, a film following a married couple whose relationship begins to crumble when one half of the pair forms an emotional bond with a neighbor.

There is also a wacky cameo by a beloved actor playing the biggest role of his life.

The film is very much of its time, trying desperately for «cult» credibility as it is by casting Lemmy, Iggy Pop and that bloke from Fields Of The Nephilim in cameo roles; it also sports a soundtrack by Goth - punk rockers The Ministry and contains the inevitable fractal imagery and pretentions towards artiness that were peculiar to post 80s popular culturof its time, trying desperately for «cult» credibility as it is by casting Lemmy, Iggy Pop and that bloke from Fields Of The Nephilim in cameo roles; it also sports a soundtrack by Goth - punk rockers The Ministry and contains the inevitable fractal imagery and pretentions towards artiness that were peculiar to post 80s popular culturOf The Nephilim in cameo roles; it also sports a soundtrack by Goth - punk rockers The Ministry and contains the inevitable fractal imagery and pretentions towards artiness that were peculiar to post 80s popular culture.

Touches to make «hip» what should be an unabashedly square story — such as the casting of Nick Cannon in a supporting role and an out - of - nowhere cameo by Ja Rule — more jar than gel.

And though Reiner appeared to retire from directing following That Old Feeling, he still maintained a notable presence in film and television with roles in Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven and it's two sequels, House M.D., Hot in Cleveland, and Parks and Rec.Carl Reiner is the father of directors Rob Reiner and Lucas Reiner; his wife Estelle has enjoyed a latter - day career as a night club singer and as a cameo performer in her son Rob's films (she's the lady who says, «I'll have what she's having!»

Though often consigned by Hollywood's typecasting system to workaday villain roles, Kenneth Tobey has not be forgotten by filmmakers who grew up watching his horror - flick endeavors of the 1950s; he has been afforded key cameo roles in such latter - day shockers as Strange Invaders (1983) and Gremlins 2: The New Batch, and in 1985 he reprised his Thing From Another World character in The Attack of the B - Movie Monsters.

A nice role as well for her coach, Diane Rawlinson (Julianne Nicholson) with a cameo for a hard copy producer, Bobby Cannavale, who from time to time lets us in on the progress of the story.

A who's who of familiar faces (from Zac Efron to Josh Hutcherson and Jacki Weaver) have minor roles as characters in «The Room», while other big names appear in memorable cameos, including Judd Apatow and Bryan Cranston.

Note that many of Ferrell's most memorable big - screen appearances have come in cameo roles (including in Austin Powers and Wedding Crashers) that are not included in the stats.

Full of really great and odd performances, it contains many great actors who usually take on smaller and yet substantial roles such as Peter Sarsgaard as a grave digging kleptomaniac, Ian Holm as Andrew's psychiatrist father, who had put his son into a lithium infused haze, and strangely enough a cameo from rapper Method Man as a bellhop.

In films from 1967, Powell played the title role in Ken Russell's Mahler (1974), and later essayed the lengthy cameo part of the ill - fated Captain Walker in Russell's Tommy (1975).

That doesn't mean the movie escapes the intersectional nature of this universe of movies: There's a cameo from one superhero (kind of a favor, since Thor appeared after the end credits of that hero's solo film), and the Hulk, as well as his scientist counterpart Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), has a supporting role.

Jesse Eisenberg had been looking to make a cameo role in the pic, but the press release (predictably) makes no mention of his involvement.

There's fun to be had in spotting Udo Kier, Ken Foree, and Brad Dourif in cameo roles (meanwhile, Zombie's standard company returns, his wife Sheri Moon turning in a wonderful performance as our bogeyman's stripper mommy), but it's distracting as well, almost too much like a rib - chucker (think The Howling — and sure enough, there's Dee Wallace as the adoptive mother of hero girl Laurie (Scout Taylor - Compton, also attached to an upcoming April Fool's Day remake)-RRB- that only ever really worked when John Landis gave it a shot with An American Werewolf in London.

A panoply of Hollywood stars including Jude Law, Tilda Swinton, Harvey Keitel and Bill Murray crop up in cameo roles throughout.

The site reports that casting continues — with one of the titular eight roles still to be filled — while «there is every possibility» that stars from the original Steven Soderbergh - directed trilogy of films could also appear in cameo roles.

As directed by Ron Howard, «Rush» stars Chris Hemsworth as Hunt, German «Inglourious Basterds» star Daniel Brühl in what's apparently going to be a star - making role as the disciplined Austrian perfectionist Niki Lauda, plus Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara («Control») and «Game Of Thrones» actress Natalie Dormer (and maybe a cameo from Russell Crowe, playing Richard Burton).

The cameo of Matt Damon snaps you out of a creatively directed film, which to that point fooled you into thinking these were not actors playing a role.

Johnson, Chloe Moretz, Christopher Mintz - Plasse and even Nicolas Cage (in a rumoured cameo role) all look set to return for «Kick Ass 2: Balls to the Wall,» and the task of filling the huge amount of supporting roles from Mark Millar's twisted comic book sequel is now well underway.

If the rest of the stars studding the cast are not quite so indelible — a few of the roles are scarcely more than cameos — each one fulfills his or her duties with aplomb.

The film will mark the Brazilian supermodel's first big screen speaking role, having appeared in a brief cameo in Casino Royale, as well as episodes of Gossip Girl and Entourage.

Also exciting is the news that Stan Lee will reprise his role as Fred's dad (he makes a cameo in the mansion scene of the original).

Comic legend Stan Lee has notched an appearance in pretty much every Marvel movie so far; Deadpool 2, which was produced by Marvel Entertainment, recently notched one of the best cameo moments in superhero history when Brad Pitt showed up for approximately two seconds in a funny, blink - and - you'll - miss - it role.

He's even managed to attract some star quality in the persons of Murdoch Mysteries star Yannick Bisson as oily villain Sydney Swallows and filmmaker Kevin Smith (Clerks) in a cameo role as Bubba Rich, mayor of small town Woodhaven.

Woody Harrelson barely makes an appearance and still seems like the most underutilized star in the franchise (although Stanley Tucci gets nothing more than a cameo appearance), while Donald Sutherland is the film's greatest benefit, hitting that perfect note of high drama and total commitment to the character — they were lucky to cast him in the role.