Sentences with phrase «play white characters»

I was wearing a green shirt and (as you may know) Tokyo Disney flies in white actors to play their white characters.

Not exact matches

In Selma, white characters are played by white actors and black characters are played by black actors.

As a teenager, I loved the Saturday afternoon black and white films on TV, with strong women characters played by Bette Davis or Joan Crawford.

He's the only candidate to play a character from the fearsome Klingon Empire in «Star Trek,» and he's the only one to don a straw hat and white suit to portray Mark Twain as a part of his campaign routine.

She demonstrates obvious kinship with the characters played by Molly Shannon in «Year of the Dog» (which Mr. White wrote and directed) and Laura Dern in the HBO series «Enlightened» (which he created).

And the most compelling character of all, a sci - fi nerd named Lionel (played, wonderfully, by Tyler James Williams), becomes a pawn of three distinct parties: The (white) editor of the student newspaper, the (white) housemates he's been unhappily thrown in with, and the (black) students who don't know what to make of him.

More supporting roles in Big Fat Liar and Solaris were quick to follow, and after rounding out the «American» trilogy in American Wedding, it was burger time for Cho as he played one of the titular characters (opposite Van Wilder's Kal Penn) in the 2004 comedy Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.

Harris tries his best to make something more out of his one - dimensional white - knight character, while Gooding plays his vaudeville Rainman routine to the rafters.

As a result of VanderMeer's deliberately cryptic play with narrative, it isn't revealed until «Authority,» the second book in the trilogy, that the character who inspired Lena is of Asian descent, while the character who inspired Dr. Ventress is half Native American and half white.

Apart from Klaue, the only other prominent white character is veteran CIA secret agent Everett K Ross, played in typically engaging and bumbling fashion by Martin Freeman.

John Cho, who drew my attention for the first time when he appeared in «Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle» (2004), shows another side of his talent here in this film, and he has an unaffected onscreen chemistry with his co-star Haley Lu Richardson, who previously played a substantial supporting character in «The Edge of Seventeen» (2016) and will probably advance further considering her charming presence on the screen.

«Doctor Strange» and «Ghost in the Shell» reveal another glaring Hollywood problem: White actors playing characters of Asian origin

Meanwhile, Alice's journeys through time treat us to various tragicomic episodes from characters» past, including a look at a young, sensitive Hatter with his curly red - haired family (Rhys Ifans plays his father) and a Frozen-esque squabble from the Red and White Queens» shared childhood.

For example, as the western genre has sought to eulogise the mission of white settlers, for a long time Native American characters were rarely, if ever, translated (when Native languages were used — often it was gibberish, or even English dialogue played backwards).

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Princess Cyd is his most accomplished film yet, about a young woman named Cyd (Jessie Pinnick) who finds herself attracted to Katie (Malic White), a barista, while visiting her Aunt Miranda (Rebecca Spence, playing a character modeled on the author Marilynne Robinson) in Chicago.

The portrayal of Natives and the film's scapegoating and support of Wayne's character is shocking and impossible to ignore; one might be able to shrug away the fact that the Natives play the villains, but good God: «she ceased to be white?»

In rich black and white, it's the story of an aspiring young New York filmmaker (Steve Buscemi) in the throes of his creative struggle, his beautiful neighbor and muse (Jennifer Beals), and a lovable con man (Seymour Cassel), chasing their dreams in quintessential 1990s NYC amidst a cast of oddball characters played by Stanley Tucci, Sam Rockwell, Will Patton, Jim Jarmusch, Debi Mazar, Carol Kane, and others.

Tarantino also mentioned «stuff» that «never made it into the movie,» and there are some deleted scenes from the Kill Bill saga, such as a fight sequence between Bill (David Carradine) and a character played by Michael Jai White.

Roberts Blossom, a veteran character actor who played the old, white - bearded next - door neighbor who befriends young Macaulay Culkin in the hit movie «Home Alone,» has died.

Really, though, the character, played with his usual fearsome wit by Samuel L. Jackson, is a tried - and - true Hollywood stock figure: the selfless, spiritually minded African - American who seems to have been put on the earth to help white people work out their self - esteem issues.

Michael Jai White would be interesting considering he's already played a title character in a comic book movie (Spawn) and a minor character in another universe (Dark Knight).

The African American actor who played Dr. Kananga / Mr Big in «Live and Let Die,» believes «James Bond was established by Ian Fleming as a white character,» and should be «played by white actors»

Beyond Lawrence, who played Julianne Moore's character Maude, and Fassbender, who played the Dude, complete with robe and white Russian, we got to see Patton Oswalt channel John Goodman as Walter and Mae Whitman voice Steve Buscemi's naive Donny like a cartoon animal.

Luckily for White, he has a mid-career Stiller, a performer willing to play the darker tones in a particular character, even to the point of unlikability.

Chris Hemsworth plays another character determined to save the fairytale world in Snow White and the Huntsman.

Though to be fair, Sydney Pollack's «Out of Africa» (left) does all it can to avoid making any statement about the suffering of Africans under colonialism, placing focus instead on its white characters, played by Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, a pair of European settlers in Kenya.

And, in further contemplation, actually comes off as rather offensive when comparing this trifle's rich, white characters of privilege with those played by Daniel Day - Lewis and Pete Posthlethwaite.

Roger Ross Williams» enlightening documentary Life, Animated shows the role Disney animated characters played in an autistic child's development and Susanna White's cinema adaptation of John le Carre's Our Kind of Traitor is thrilling.

In 2015, when she was cast to play Tiger Lilly in Pan, it was brought up that hey, maybe a white person shouldn't be playing a character who is Native American, even if the original source material is racist.

Films have on occasion broadened the scope, perhaps none as widely as Blindness (2008), Fernando Meirelles's failed attempt to translate the devastating dark beauty of José Saramago's novel to screen, in which all of its many characters — except for one, played by a miscast Julianne Moore — lose their sight not to the usual blackness but a bright white light.

This time the theological - debatin» action centers on Reverend Dave (played by David A.R. White, cofounder of God's Not Dead's distributor Pure Flix), with the series» lynchpin supporting character finally getting his own Van Wilder: The Rise Of Taj - like starring turn after someone burns down his church.

Do look out for their final scene together — it's an absolute gem, so good, in fact, that I completely forgot to worry about the endless controversy over white actors playing Asian characters.

Not only do these African - American - voiced characters played by a white actor (Tom Kenny) speak street jive, but they boast about being unable to read and one sports a gold tooth.

Ethan Hawke plays a character that takes on the wilderness in White Fang.

For who better to cast as the unreliable narrator Eva Khatchadourian than the woman who has played both the stoney White Witch in the Narnia films and delievered the powerhouse performance of the conflicted title character in 2008's Julia.

James White is a powerful new drama entering on the troubled title character, played by...

The group makes it over the wall, but not before two of the series» prominent characters of color — played by Mekhi Phifer and Maggie Q, who are each given virtually no dialogue as a parting gift — are gunned down, likely to make room for the new influx of white actors we're about to meet (Daniel Dae Kim shows up for a second too, another minority bit - part designed to create a false sense of diversity).

The best drama win for «Breaking Bad» was its first ever, and Anna Gunn won a best supporting actress award for playing the wife of Bryan Cranston's Walter White character, the chemistry teacher turned drug lord whom the series revolves around.

A Production Gallery (5:15) runs classy character - sorted black & white film stills (including seven from a deleted scene) and production photos in screen - filling 16:9 while excerpts of Morricone's score play.

Several critics have compared the character to Woody Allen, and in its content and black - and - white photography, C.K.'s movie also consciously echoes Allen's 1979 film Manhattan, in which Allen's character dates a high - school student, played by Mariel Hemingway.

Furthermore, another character, known simply as «the psychologist» (and played by Jennifer Jason Leigh in the movie), is described as half — Native American, half - white.

While many terms — whitewashing, white - savior complex, etc. — have gotten conflated over the past couple of years, this is a clear - cut case of whitewashing: The characters in the book are not white, but the actors who play them in the adaptation are.

In the original comics, Domino is icy white, with a black spot over her eye — but in this 2018 iteration, she's biracial and played by Atlanta star Zazie Beetz, who does away with the character's traditionally short, straight hair in favor of her own natural skyward fro.

The bad guys are fixin'to do harm to Jimmy's son Duval, a straight - laced Dudley Do - right FBI agent played by Tim DeKay, who played pretty much the same character in White Collar.

Despite turns in comedic fare like The Big Lebowski and Thank You For Smoking, and despite the number of one - liners he drops in Road House («This place has a sign hangin» over the urinal that says, «Don't eat the big white mint»»), Sam Elliott hasn't played a lot of characters like Ron Dunn.

The title is actually the name of the main character, Sol, played by Balthazar Getty (White Squall, Judge Dredd).

ANDERSON: And we've seen the Asian American community hold Hollywood accountable for that white - washing and cultural appropriation, with one of the most notable instances leading to Ed Skrein backing out of playing a «Hellboy» character who had been conceived as Asian in the comics.

Every single character in the film is a walking stereotype, and in typical rom - com fashion, they're mostly white — including the Colombian - born Alejandro, played by British actor Barnes — and extremely privileged.

This would be a minefield even if its creator weren't dealing with rumors regarding his own alleged bad behavior; as it is, the movie's questioning of whether great art excuses artists with personal failings and how privilege plays into it («I guess only poor people are pedophiles,» says one character) comes with C.K.'s usual sharp wit, anything - goes experimentation (that black - and - white cinematography, those old - school Hollywood credits) and a refusal to offer up easy answers.