Sentences with phrase «played by a black man»

«Like, that could only be played by a black man.

He thanked the show's creator, Dan Fogelman, for writing a role «for a black man that can only be played by a black man.»

That could only be played by a black man,» Brown said in his acceptance speech, addressing This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman.

«You wrote a role for a black man that can only be played by a black man,» Brown said.

Not exact matches

The ugliest presentations of racism may have been pulled out, but it's clear that we're still dealing with the after - effects — even now, social mobility is less evident in black men who play by the rules than white men who don't.

The four - wall version is played by two men locked inside a 20 - by -40-foot room, off whose walls, ceiling and floor they slam a small, black rubber ball at speeds up to 100 mph.

I «am a black single mother been single for awhile by choice due to the game playing of our black men i «am 5» 8 in height fun loving, romantic, spontanious, affection ate looking for a fun loving male who has a old school moral on how to treat a woman and is not scared of being in a relationship

I'm sexy, strong and like to play with guy on the bed, 25 yrs old, black girl called by Laura, my hometown is Africa and looking for a strong black man to talk and get friends with me

Much was made in 1955 of the fact that the presiding judge is a black man, played by Juano Hernandez.

When a black man (Sterling K. Brown) is wrongfully accused by a white woman, a black lawyer named Thurgood Marshall (played by Chadwick Boseman) steps in to defend him.

The trilogy's smart take on time travel paved the way for Joseph Gordon - Levitt to hunt his older self (played by Bruce Willis) in «Looper,» for Will Smith to prevent an alien invasion in «Men in Black 3,» and for a pair of engineers to manipulate each other's fates in «Primer.»

Even when she is hounded by the attention of another young man (Jacob Black played by Taylor Lautner), her soul can't rest in peace.

The film is based on the true life account of Solomon Northup (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man in New York who was deceived and sold into a life of slavery from 1841 to 1853.

«For an actor, it's just jam on your bread to have a role which is the same man underneath but dramatically transformed by illness, by fear, by loneliness, by desperation and by a horrible black humor that he possesses,» Patrick Stewart says of playing X-Men founder Charles Xavier in 2oth Century Fox and Marvel's Logan.

Goggins» wonderfully - played Chris Mannix, son of a famous Southern rebel, picks away at Warren's calm nature by reminding him of the horrible conditions he faced as a black man; later, Warren does the same with Dern's Gen. Smithers by describing the sexual brutality he inflicted upon Smithers» son after the war.

The film follows the true life story of Solomon Northup (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man in New York, who in 1841 was deceived and sent southward to be sold as a slave.

Lucy's being held by the Black Hat, a most menacing vampire played by Karl Urban («Star Trek») in a modified Dr. McCoy drawl and Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name duds.

What separates «Black Panther» from the Batmans, Spidermans and Iron Mans of the creaky, big studio superhero genre is that it looks and, more important, feels nothing like the usual bloated franchise movie that takes no chances and plays by genre rules.

Xavier and his cluster of would - be X-Men are taken under the wing of the «Man in Black», played by a sorely underused Oliver Platt, who runs the CIA's Division X.

Marvel fans will know that the three names on the chairs are the alter egos of Ant Man, played by Paul Rudd; Black Widow, played by Scarlett Johansson; and Captain America, played by Chris Evans.

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.

Family man Matt Damon (wearing Establishment specs) gets into hot water with the mob and the insurance company after conspiring with his wife's sister (both wife and sister played by Julianne Moore)-- all of which unfolds against a backdrop of bigotry as their neighbors, a black family, are hatefully hounded and attacked by the rest of the town.

But instead, the Academy was won over by an intimate portrait of a young, gay black man in a poor Miami housing project whose mother (brilliantly played by Naomie Harris) is a crack addict.

Carl Van Vechten & the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black & White By Emily Bernard Yale University Press Hardcover, $ 30.00 372 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -0-300-12199-5 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is a portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as a wBlack & White By Emily Bernard Yale University Press Hardcover, $ 30.00 372 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -0-300-12199-5 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is a portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as a wholBy Emily Bernard Yale University Press Hardcover, $ 30.00 372 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -0-300-12199-5 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is a portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as a wholby Kam Williams «This book is a portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... 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Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as a wholby sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as a wblack primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as a whole?

It's a triptych portrait of a young gay black man, played by three different actors as a kid, a teen and then a young man: an almost Tolstoyan sense of childhood, boyhood and youth.

The story focuses on a superficial and selfish man (played by Jack Black), who can't see beyond people's outward appearances.

Martin McDonagh (pictured above), the award winning Irish playwright behind The Pillowman and the Oscar winning shot film Six Shooter, made his feature film debut in 2008 with In Bruges, an extraordinarily black dramedy about two hit - men (played by Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell, the latter of whom picked up a Golden Globe for his efforts) on vacation in the medieval Belgian town of Bruges.

Black has a tendency to go big and over-the-top, but he's gloriously restrained here playing a man who has learned to survive as a closeted gay man in a conservative Texas town by molding himself into whatever shape the community finds most appealing, whether that's choir leader, empathetic pal, musical - theater leading man, or pillar of the community.

While a blind man could see Black Panther would receive the sequel treatment, could Wakandan warrior Okoye, played by Danai Gurira, be landing her... Read More

The Black Widow film rights eventually reverted to Marvel, and the character made her big - screen debut in 2010's Iron Man 2, played by Scarlett Johansson.

2:00 pm — TCM — A Patch of Blue Very much a product of its mid-1960s, civil - rights - movement - era time, but a solid story in its own right of a blind girl falling for a black man, played (of course) by Sidney Poitier.

Their 1958 marriage was a crime in the state of Virginia because Richard (played by Joel Edgerton with a terse determination) was a white man and Mildred (Ruth Negga, vulnerable yet hopeful) was a black woman.

Being an interracial couple, the question comes up if her parents (played perfectly by Catherine Keener & Bradley Whitford) are okay with their daughter dating a black man.

Iron Man, Spider - Man, Captain America, Thor, Black Widow, Hulk, Black Panther and dozens of other characters all being played by A-list celebrities — including Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bradley Cooper — must unite to defeat the entity with the power to end the universe: Thanos, played by Josh Brolin.

Dwight (Josh Brolin, taking up the role played by Clive Owen in the first film) has a past with Ava, knows she is bad news, and yet there she stands at the doorway, in her bright blue silk coat, ravishing against the black - and - white scenery, and what is a man supposed to do?

But the Dutch director is also responsible for some radically empowered female performances: Sharon Stone's vaguely amused man - eater in Basic Instinct, Carice van Houten's unscrupulous World War II survivor in Black Book and now the protagonist of his latest movie, played by the frosty, effortlessly commanding Isabelle Huppert.

Natasha Romanova aka the Black Widow has been played by Scarlett Johansson in the movies Iron Man 2, Avengers Assemble, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age Of Ultron and Captain America: Civil War.

The primary story is based on based on the Algiers Motel murders: during the rebellion, on July 25, three young black men were tortured and killed by three white officers who were reportedly playing something they called «the death game» (pretending to kill suspects in order to get them to confess to crimes).

That conflict will make him Black Panther (played by Chadwick Boseman) the «undecided voter» in the battle between Cap (Chris Evans) and Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) according to producer Nate Moore.

Playing the son of Rocky's former nemesis Apollo Creed, here — finally — was a boxing movie with a black man playing a hero informed by the all too familiar absent fatherPlaying the son of Rocky's former nemesis Apollo Creed, here — finally — was a boxing movie with a black man playing a hero informed by the all too familiar absent fatherplaying a hero informed by the all too familiar absent father story.

Peele — better known for his comedy work in Comedy Central's Key & Peele — astutely taps into systemic racism that persists in America through the eyes of a young black man (played by Daniel Kaluuya) whose visit to the family home of his girlfriend (Allison Williams) turns tragic.

In congressional debate pro-slavery Democrat Fernando Wood declaims that to make blacks equal to white men is «an insult to natural law» — to which the powerful, acid - tongued Republican abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens, played by a well - cast Tommy Lee Jones, retorts, «Slavery is the only insult to natural law, you fatuous nincompoop.

That movie also featured Jordan playing a black man who became a victim of his circumstances because of the color of his skin (the film is based on the 2009 shooting death of an unarmed Oscar Grant at the Fruitvale BART station in Oakland, California, by a police officer).

Adults, kids and whole families have gotten in on the trend, with men, women and boys trying their best Jabari - Lands and Wakandan accents, donning furry shawls and capes and using household implements as props to play the part of the Jabari ruler and Zuri, a shaman played by Forest Whitaker, as well as T'Challa / Black Panther himself (Chadwick Boseman), often all at once.

The filmmakers catch us up on old friends, build stronger identities for newer ones (Paul Rudd's Ant Man has tricks up his tiny sleeves) and introduce two significant characters, Black Panther (played with ferocious dignity by Chadwick Boseman) and a fresh Spider - Man (played as a genial, awestruck teen by Tom Holland, who actually is a teen).

Her Heathcliff is a young black man (played by Solomon Glave and later James Howson) forced to deal with the prejudices of those around him, even as he pursues a tempestuous relationship with the doomed Catherine (Shannon Beer, then Kaya Scodelario).

The life of a young black man growing up in a rough Miami neighborhood is told in three parts: Childhood (played by Alex Hibbert), teenaged years (played by Ashton Sanders), and adulthood (played by Trevante Rhodes).

It's all too bad, especially considering that a man - in - black played by Jason Bateman resists the standard expectations of the role and ends up with the best, most felt line in the film («He introduced me to my wife»).

Men in Black 3 has laughs, thrills, special effects, and some entertaining by - play with Smith and Brolin.

As illustrated, for the most part, by the single - named artist Jock, the pages burst with energy and play very much as Diggle intended: a «man crush love letter to Shane Black,» the screenwriter of Lethal Weapon, The Long Kiss Goodnight, and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.