Sentences with phrase «playing lady bird»

She next stars alongside Bella Thorne in «Amityville: The Awakening,» and she's also playing Lady Bird Johnson opposite Woody Harrelson in Rob Reiner «s political drama «LBJ.»

Letts playing Lady Bird's sympathetic father takes a gracious backseat, and stands out for that.

On TV, Patti LuPone played Lady Bird Johnson in the 1987 biopic LBJ: The Early Years, starred as the mother of Christopher Burke in the weekly «dramedy» Life Goes On (1989 - 93), and was recently seen in the recurring role of a barracuda - like attorney on Law and Order.

And she became especially close to co-star Beanie Feldstein, who plays Lady Bird's theater - loving best friend in the film.

Luckily, most of us are easy targets, judging from the movie's early Oscar buzz — a best actress nom seems to be a lock for Ronan; «if there is any justice in the world,» says Deadline, Laurie Metcalf, who plays Lady Bird's mother, will receive a nod for best supporting actress; and fingers crossed that, in Vanity Fair's words, Gerwig's «warm, confident filmmaking» will also be recognized at this level.

It was one of my life dreams to play Lady Bird, and I'm a huge fan of [director] Pablo Larraín.

Ronan is set to play Lady Bird's protagonist, a high school senior...

For Timothée Chalamet, who plays Lady Bird's mansplaining crush, Kyle, Gerwig encouraged viewings of Éric Rohmer films to study «young men talking at women about their ideas.»

«Nothing about Greta seemed inexperienced for a first - time director,» Tracy Letts, the Pulitzer Prize - winning playwright and actor who plays Lady Bird's tenderhearted father, told V.F. «The work she's done in front of the camera and as a writer has really prepared her for this moment.

Saoirse Ronan plays Lady Bird, a young teenager who wants out of her life in Sacramento.

Timothée Chalamet, for example — who plays Lady Bird's crush Kyle and is also Oscar - nominated this year for his role in another coming - of - age drama, Call Me By Your Name — was directed towards the films of Éric Rohmer and a collection of theoretical essays, The Internet Does Not Exist.

(Also, perhaps my Superbad comparison was exacerbated by the fact that Beanie Feldstein, Jonah Hill's sister, plays Lady Bird's best friend.

Gerwig touched on casting Rodrigues and Scott, who play Lady Bird's brother and his girlfriend, respectively.

Saoirse Ronan, always a compelling mix of soulful and thoughtful, plays Lady Bird's jumble of emotions with natural, salient insight.

Lucas Hedges, who plays Lady Bird's boyfriend, Danny, says, «The most unique thing about working with Greta is that it didn't feel like I was working with a director... It was never technical, it felt much more fluid and colorful and, like, it was a special relationship we had that was, like, meeting up with my friend after school to work on a movie.»

Not exact matches

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I love how good it feels to know that the same great legs rocking my high - heeled boots can carry me for miles and miles, up and over a mountain, do sprints through the grass playing catch with my friend's dogs, or allow me to enjoy a beautiful run around Lady Bird Lake.

Sally Hawkins (who shockingly benefited from the one win the National Society didn't give to Lady Bird) and Frances McDormand were in play but no one seemed to be seizing the season like Ronan had.

Still, Hawkins and Oldman received a few votes, as did «Hostiles» star Christian Bale, «Lean on Pete» newcomer Charlie Plummer, «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool» co-stars Annette Bening and Jamie Bell, and Laurie Metcalf, who plays Ronan's mother in «Lady Bird.»

In the hands of many other writers, the titular, self - proclaimed Lady Bird — real name Christine McPherson played by renowned Irish actress Saoirse Ronan — would come across as whiny, entitled, and unlikable to the point where the entire film comes crumbling down.

Among them are George Clooney's home - invasion race - critique «Suburbicon» featuring Matt Damon (he does double duty with «Downsizing»); Angelina Jolie's fact - based Khmer Rouge drama «First They Killed My Father,» a Cambodian production rooted in native culture; Greta Gerwig's California comedy «Lady Bird» starring Saoirse Ronan as the title character; and Andy Serkis» «Breathe,» about the real - life polio activist Robin Cavendish, played by Andrew Garfield.

«You both has such strong personalities,» says Larry, Lady Bird's father, played by playwright Tracy Letts.

Q: There are lots of other great characters in the movie, though, from the disappointing guys Lady Bird dates (played by «Call Me by Your Name's» Timothee Chalamet and «Manchester by the Sea's» Lucas Hedges) to her patient dad (Tracy Letts) to a cool school nun (Lois Smith) and more.

Here's a supplementary list of ten performances: Betty Buckley, articulate as a psychotherapist, and the protean James McAvoy playing against her in Split; Harris Dickinson, implosive with self - loathing in Beach Rats; two turns by Michael Fassbender, as the smarmy villains of Song to Song and Alien: Covenant; Milla Jovovich's valedictory sprint through Resident Evil: The Final Chapter; Barry Keoghan as a teenage sprite barely veiling his hostility in The Killing of a Sacred Deer; Keanu Reeves, put through his paces again in John Wick: Chapter 2; Lady Bird's callous, precocious, and heartbreaking Saoirse Ronan; newcomer Millicent Simmonds and her silent movie acting in Wonderstruck; octagenarian Lois Smith playing her age as Marjorie of Marjorie Prime; and Adrian Titieni, slouching and gloomy as a bad dad in Graduation.

Lady Bird's parents — mom is played by Laurie Metcalf and dad is played by Tracy Letts, both are excellent — are struggling to keep up with the bills, which only adds to Lady Bird's general sense of unease.

Lady Bird is the writer / director's gentle, through passionately prickly look at the haze that lies just beyond adolescence, with Saoirse Ronan («The Grand Budapest Hotel») playing Christine, the also titular protagonist who must navigate the...

Ronan plays Christine McPherson, a senior at a Catholic high school in Sacramento, California, in 2002 who longs to go to college in New York and makes her friends and family call her Lady Bird.

Though actress Laurie Metcalf plays Saoirse Ronan's mother in the hit film «Lady Bird,» it was Metcalf who was going to Ronan for guidance.

Academy Award nominee Jennifer Jason Leigh («The Hateful Eight») plays First Lady Lady Bird Johnson.

Letts plays Larry McPherson, the patriarch of Lady Bird's clan.

Film: Lady Bird Director: Greta Gerwig Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Lucas Hedges, Timothee Chalamet, Odeya Rush Oscar Nominations (5): Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay Where to Stream: Available for purchase on YouTube, iTunes and Google Play

As Greta tells it, she had seen me in a bunch of movies playing hard asses, but once she sat with me, she realized I was a softie and thought I was great to play the dad in Lady Bird and I said yes immediately.

These include chaperones at a school dance insisting on leaving «six inches for the holy spirit,» a college counselor bursting out laughing when Lady Bird mentions Yale, and a football coach who directs theater as if he were diagramming plays.

There was last month's Lady Bird (A24), Greta Gerwig's debut as a solo director, in which he plays a shaggy - haired guitar player so dreamy that star Saoirse Ronan's character puts her identity on hold to spend time in his orbit.

A24's Lady Bird, still taking in crowds in its fourth month of release, played 407 theaters this weekend, grossing an estimated $ 747,638 in the four - day, averaging $ 1,837.

The most resonant roles for women centered on the sometimes loving, frequently fraught relationships between mother and daughter as displayed in such films as «The Florida Project» (where the roles were played by Bria Vinaite and Brooklynn Kimberly Prince); «Marjorie Prime» (Lois Smith and Geena Davis); «The Big Sick» (Holly Hunter and Zoe Kazan); and «Lady Bird» (Laurie Metcalf and Saoirse Ronan).

Lady Bird's father, played by Tracy Letts, makes sacrifices for every member of his family, and he's happy for them even though he's sad for himself.

Ronan plays 17 - year - old Christine, who likes to be called «Lady Bird».

For a time this seemed like a two - way battle, with television and theater veteran Laurie Metcalf, nominated for playing a complicated but loving mother to a willful daughter in Lady Bird, facing off against Allison Janney, nominated for playing a complicated and never - loving mother to a willful daughter in I, Tonya.

Almost no one in Lady Bird is a caricature and almost everyone is played by a terrific actor, from Tracy Letts to Lois Smith to Manchester By The Sea's scene - stealing Lucas Hedges.

Actress Laurie Metcalf and writer and actor Tracy Letts for a feature on Greta Gerwig's directorial debut «Lady Bird,» opening Friday, in which they play the parents of a feisty teenager (Saoirse Ronan).

Neon / 30West's I, Tonya is now over $ 22.6 M, while The Shape of Water is in the top 10, grossing $ 4.3 M. Searchlight's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is in more than seventeen hundred locations, taking in three million and Lady Bird played eleven hundred theaters, grossing more than $ 1.35 M.

What really elevates the film is its depiction of the relationship between Lady Bird and her mother, Marion, played by Laurie Metcalf.

Over the course of our October morning interview at the NoMad Hotel in Manhattan, she inadvertently refers to «Lady Bird» as «the show» or Gerwig's «play» before catching herself — «I've been doing plays!»

This Lady Bird represents actress Greta Gerwig's directorial debut and it is the nickname given to herself by a high school teen girl named Christine McPherson played immaculately by the luminous Saoirse Ronan.

Like Gerwig, getting to this sentimental place was a long and angsty road for her movie alter ego, the self - monikered Lady Bird, née Christine McPherson, played by Irish starlet Saoirse Ronan (Atonement, Brooklyn).

There is no other Gunther's on the planet, with its «Jugglin» Joe» neon sign from 1949; no other rose garden anywhere filled with Gerwig's memories; and no Tower Bridge lookalike that could have been a more stunning backdrop for a momentous coming - of - age conversation between Lady Bird and her best friend Julie (played by newcomer Beanie Feldstein, now starring opposite Bette Midler in the Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly!).

This Lady Bird represents actress Greta Gerwig's directorial debut and it is the nickname given to herself by a high school teen girl named Christine McPherson played immaculately by the luminous Saoirse R... Read

Lady Bird rebels by amassing piles of clothes on the floor of her room, celebrating Thanksgiving with her boyfriend's family (during which she shows Danny's grandmother, played by Mickiewicz's actual grandmother, a fancy way to fold napkins — another true - to - life moment) and applying to colleges in New York, despite the family's financial strain.

«Lady Bird» — Father Walther, the football coach, is now the director of the school play.