Sentences with phrase «playing real characters»

Julia Raeside: A good year for actors playing real characters.

Judy Dench (Philomena and Mrs. Henderson Presents), Naomi Watts (The Impossible), Michelle Williams (My Week With Marilyn), Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia and The Devil Wears Prada), Carey Mulligan (An Education), Helen Mirren (The Last Station), Angelina Jolie (The Changling) and Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth: The Golden Age) all received Academy Award nominations for playing real characters.

Playing real characters this time rather than sounding - board side pieces or just familiar types, Zoe Lister - Jones — a scream in «Lola Versus» — and Adam Pally — such a delight on TV's cancelled - too - soon «Happy Endings» — reveal their inherent dramatic chops and create genuine pathos amidst their biting interactions.

(And yay for Connelly getting to play a real character, and not just Worried Wife.)

Bichir gave the second best performance in it if you ask me because he realized in the absence of being given a real character to play, play a Real Character.

Not exact matches

The drama here plays out like a great stage play, where the internal conflict and tension between the characters is the real driving force.

Some Reddit users did the math and determined it would take dozens of hours of play to acquire the necessary credits; however, players could also pay real money for randomized, virtual «loot crates» that contain the currency used to unlock these characters.

Consumers are spending more time playing games; they're also becoming more willing to make in - game purchases — spending real money to buy, say, new weapons for their fictional characters — enabling some companies to replace a dependency on new hits with a steady, recurring revenue stream.

In the little - seen Gamer, a young man shares responsibility for the actions of his video - game alter - ego» an avatar (played by Gerard Butler) who is employed to act out the youth's viral simulacrum in real - world situations where hedonistic consumers take on the identities and vices of video - game characters.

The new season will still take place over a 24 - hour period, with episodes playing out in real time, but because of the shorten season length, not all the hours of the day will be shown (presumably skipping the period of time a major character finds themselves ensnared in a bear trap).

James also has his theatrical Toussaint character take part in a voodoo ceremony during which the houngan symbolically rips a crucifix from a chain around his neck and throws it away, the most false image of any in the play since the real Louverture was renowned for his Catholic piety.

The film is written and directed by his real - life son Emilio Estevez, who also plays the recentlydeceased firstborn of Sheen's character, on whose behalf he is making the pilgrimage.

Yes, if only he has some real talent, some courage, some muscles, some balls and some character, some way of staying fit and somewhere else to play his footballl.

these were groundbreaking stuff... they had issues with Khabib team and they really fought it out for real... not some fake PR move throwing whatever to the bus injuring others... trash talk was always there, from Tito ortiz to Chael Sonnen, but Chael was / is more comical about his thing and he is playing a character....

He's the kind of hero John Wayne played in his famous westerns... clear - eyed honesty, strength of character, courageous compassion... only in a real - life, flesh - and - blood man of honor, decency, and integrity... Read more

The character's real strength is not so much in the variety of meanings he can represent, but the variety of roles he can play.

Spending time immersed as a virtual character or avatar in a role - playing video game can numb you to realizing important body signals in real life.

But not as miserable as Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in Total Recall, from 1990, in which he learns that his real memories have been erased, that his life is a fake, and that his faux wife, played by Sharon Stone, is trying to kill him.

And when the book came out in Catalan, researchers here in Barcelona played at identifying who could be the characters in real life.

Englund, Saxon, Craven, and the rest of the real world folks have fun playing themselves while Saxon's return to his Elm Street character rocks.

When two or more characters in a show are played by actors who have some form of real - life...

The two beloved characters played by real - life exes Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki exchanged vows (for the second time!)

Chris Diamantopoulous (who I assume must keep the family name intact or be cursed) plays the type of Moe that honors both the strange bully character and the original real guy.

So because Carrey won't play mean or even dull, there's no real room for the character to grow, and change.

Throw in Neil Patrick Harris — once again playing the Bizarro World version of himself — shattered and reinforced redneck stereotypes and a delightful take on Dubya [here, he may not speak real good English, but he's slyer, smarter and mellower than we are expecting] and the result is a solidly funny movie that Says Something more by highlighting the characters of Harold and Kumar than by the political jokes.

Likewise, Wilson and Ferrell are just as good - Ferrell, in particular, gets his first real chance at playing a character (a wacky character, but a character nonetheless)- and the eclectic supporting cast provides surprisingly effective support.

What it lacks in game play, Telltale makes up for in excellent story - telling, real moral choices and a well crafted setting with polished characters that affect nearly every dynamic of the game.

Radcliffe steps up his game as a result, displaying maturity and a real understanding of the character that he's been playing for the past 10 years.

Detailed story with Plenty of characters the majority being very real and with the strong western theme carried out perfectly, stacked along side strong, varied game - play this is a very enthralling game.

The movie's main character Brady Blackburn is played by real - life rodeo rider Brady Jandreau.

Able to play characters ranging from a name - dropping Manhattan socialite to a withdrawn, abused wife, the 6» 0» Janney infuses all of her portrayals with equal parts poignancy and unforced gusto.A product of Dayton, Ohio, where she was born November 19, 1959, Janney was raised as the daughter of a homemaker and the president of a real estate firm.

But for me, the real surprise is Jane Krakowski, who I feared was to play the same character she's been in 30 Rock and various commercials.

Most of all, it's a game you'll remember for its settings, its atmosphere, its characters and its stunning art, not to mention some impressively nuanced and fascinating storylines and the feel that how you play has a real impact on this world.

Very much a character study, with most of the focus mostly on Bjorn Borg (played by Sverrir Gudnason)-- notably, the film was titled Borg in Sweden — and his meticulous, robotlike preparation pitted against the wild - child spirit of John McEnroe, who was seemingly perfectly stunt cast with real - life powder keg Shia LaBeouf.

Pick your street basketball player from a pool of custom - designed, one - of - a-kind characters based on real - life street basketball players, team up with your friends online or in - person, and hit the court to play authentic, fast - paced gameplay.

Its ambition is admirable: It wants to be an adult thriller like its director's justly famous «Three Days of the Condor,» with political and psychological reverberations, on real - world topics, with a reasonable cause - effect dynamic at play, clear motives, action plausible and not overdone, free of computer effects, full of recognizable, compellingly flawed characters, yet taut and gripping to an astonishing end.

There's a constant sense of play and dress - up, with characters constantly changing in and out of fresh outfits — sometimes to get out of different scrapes, sometimes to hide, and sometimes for no real reason at all.

Sure, Shakespeare's plays were often times full of titillation and seemingly inane romances, but they nevertheless retained the quality of art at the behest of real character, commanded to the audience through real, identifiable problems of death, power, and scandal.

Hudd first came to serious critical attention with his portrayal of Guildenstern in a 1925 modern - dress production of Hamlet, and he later became a theatrical star in the play Too Good To Be True, in the role of Private Meek, a character modeled after T.E. Lawrence; as surviving photos from the production reveal, in costume he was a near dead - ringer for the real - life Lawrence.

A real showcase for Penn, who seems to positively delight in playing a slimy, hateful character that most stars would not go near.

Perhaps contemplating his pension, Neeson is gruff and distracted; Zeta - Jones seems nervous and apprehensive beneath her slinky bravado; and only Wilson, by virtue of the slacker nature of his character (played memorably by Russ Tamblyn in the original as a cynic more interested in the value of the house on the real estate market), strikes an authentic note of eccentricity laced with fear.

Aside from the main themes and characters, there's that divorced - women's support group, run by Dorothy's cynical sister (the expertly wisecracking Bonnie Hunt); a «child - care technician» obsessed with modern jazz; and run - ins with various sporting figures, both real (from Frank Gifford to Katarina Witt) and fictional, such as a superstar quarterback played by TV's Jerry O'Connell, and his hard - nosed dad (an uncredited Beau Bridges).

Absolutely zero problem at launch with ROS, closed option to buy items from shop with real money or gold, improveed loot system for playing yourself and not to use AH / RMAH, new act and character, new end game... well, this game already gave me 700h and now is completely better and totaly diffrent as it was at start.

Helen Mirren, taking a paycheck role but incapable of slumming (or, at least, incapable of doing so without giving it her all), plays the real - life historical character Sarah Winchester, the turn - of - the - century California widow whose late husband, William Wirt Winchester, left her a 50 percent stake in the Winchester Repeating Arms Co..

Gordon - Levitt plays this character as if it is a real person and I can say that with confidence since I was born and raised in New Jersey.

Interestingly, rather than try to keep as much of the stage musical intact in order to please fans of the theater production, Condon has made several significant changes in his adaptation, most notably in making the characters play more like the real - life counterparts of their inspiration.

How do you play a character like that who, in real life, would likely be institutionalized for thinking that way?

In «Fruitvale,» O'Reilly plays a character who is an amalgamation of real people so taking on the role of Chris - Ann marked her first time playing a real person, though she would go on to play director Mary Harron in «CBGB,» due out later this year.

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.

The real interest, if there is any, is that Benny is Aboriginal; I don't think I've seen this character played by that minority before.