Sentences with phrase «romantic lead»

In fact, while the duo sounds like a comedy dream team on paper, they have zero chemistry as romantic leads, which makes their inevitable hookup even more awkward as a result.

She is over 50 and still plays romantic leads.

He doesn't make for a great romantic lead character but that's okay — because this isn't a great romance.

The 33 - year - old Oscar - winning actress is currently in talks to take on the role of romantic lead in Ryan Coogler's upcoming Black Panther, Variety reports.

He carries the torch of romantic leading man well as Bruce Garrett, a faded teenage salsa prodigy who reignites his passion for dance in hopes of sweeping his dream girl (Rashida Jones) off her feet.

In the mid»20s he frequently played dashing romantic leading men, notably in Camille (1927) opposite Norma Talmadge.

The Kick - Ass star takes on her first romantic lead role in tearjerker If I Stay, based on the smash hit book of the same name.

Luke Wilson, who seems to be cast regularly as the male romantic lead in comedies, is often genuinely unlikable, which does deplete from our own vested interest in seeing him become lucky in love.

There's often talk of a «chemistry test» used in the auditioning process for romantic leads but there's an easy, snappy rapport between the trio here that feels like the result of something similar.

The culture created in the form of Barsoom is rather charmless and there's little in the way of chemistry between what should be the big romantic leads at its centre.

The young romantic leads played by John Magaro and Bella Heathcote are stand out actors.

Though inclined to stoutness — and baldness — from age 16 onward, Alexander had such a commanding stage presence that he was invariably cast as the star in school plays, in roles ranging from romantic leads to elderly character parts.

He continued his rascal - like romantic lead roles with Failure to Launch (2006) opposite Sarah Jessica Parker, and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) with Jennifer Garner.

Darius Khondji, back from Midnight in Paris, lights her beautifully, and you wonder why she hasn't been seen as a traditional romantic lead up to now.

Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, one of the most romantic leading pairs of all - time, made their on - screen couple debut in the swashbuckler Captain Blood (1935).

On Silicon Valley, Nanjiani plays the lovelorn loser routine to a hilt, but he's an appealing romantic lead in The Big Sick, balancing his quick sardonic wit with sweetly awkward sincerity.

, lights her beautifully, and you wonder why she hasn't been seen as a traditional romantic lead up to now.

Efron doesn't reach Neighbors levels of inspiration, but he does finally give a performance that lands between those peaks and his frequent puppy - himbo valleys — he's funny, and a semi-credible romantic lead opposite Kendrick.

Offering great support is Ed Burns, Malin Akerman and Judy Greer (who all but steals the show early on), but the real star of «27 Dresses» is Heigl, who's given a character that, unlike most romantic leads, actually feels like a real person.

We associate Gable with the dashing romantic leads of «It Happened One Night» and «Gone With The Wind» so it's a shock to see him playing a nasty scoundrel here.

This hilarious supernatural romp isn't quite her best movie — that's «Sullivan's Travels» — but it is her finest hour as a louchely comic romantic lead.

This is a much softer role for the usually bristling Blunt and may catapult her firmly into romantic lead actress territory.

With the subtlest change in facial expression he transforms his hardened, menacing look of a wild west gunslinger into the soft, handsome features of a sensitive romantic lead.

There is no obvious bouba / kiki - like dynamic that would link a young, female, doomed romantic lead with a bright orb in the sky, yet the metaphor is immediately sensible to anyone who hears it.

Not only that, it allows Hugh Grant to make his third appearance on this list — meaning that it's no wonder New Zealanders voted him the favourite romantic leading man of all time.

John most often played callow juveniles and lightweight romantic leads.

Anyone who's ever wondered how Michael Shannon would fare as a smoldering romantic lead or how Imogen Poots might handle the role of a femme fatale has their answer in Matthew Ross» engaging psycho - thriller.

Costner has a free pass to be as lazy as he can possibly be, and the result is one of the most smugly alienating romantic lead performances that I can quickly call to mind.

The sweeping, beautiful La La Land concluded with all but a knowing glance between our two romantic leads after imagining what a perfect relationship would have looked like, and them film was better for it.

Keanu Reeves, by comparison, seems stiffer than usual as the film's ostensible romantic lead, even as he continues to move as gracefully as ever.

As if it's not enough that Mamoudou Athie played Grandmaster Flash in The Get Down, he was also a very dreamy romantic lead in a little movie called Jean Of The Joneses, from writer - director Stella Meghie, which follows a young woman (Taylour Paige) with a sprawling matriarchal Brooklyn family.

Piper Perabo (Rachel) seems stuck in the same rut as Reese Witherspoon before her... forever the sweet - as - pie romantic lead in films such as Coyote Ugly, Perfect Opposites (A Piece of My Heart), and The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle.

The poorly cast trio of leads (and Dreyfuss, in particular, is the least romantic lead you'll ever see).

Patric has never backed down from his characters» dark sides, and Jay is among the most bilious romantic leads in history.

She's beautiful, bug - eyes and all, and when she simpers in her mealy - mouthed way that she loves Ben as much as Ben loves baseball, all the men folk are supposed to melt — but I have serious doubts as to whether Barrymore is romantic lead material.

For many years, Whalen was an all - purpose leading man at 20th Century Fox; perhaps his best assignment during this period was Coppy, the nominal romantic lead in John Ford's Wee Willie Winkie (1937).

Season 3 of Outlander might be its most romantic yet... The show shouldn't work with its two romantic leads separated by two centuries and an ocean, but it's never been more emotional or affecting.

Given the chance, Garfield has always been a first - rate romantic lead.

Elizabethtown mistakes countless scenes of people throwing their hands over their heads as they're walking away to some alt - pop tune as poignancy while mistaking Bloom as a viable romantic lead when he's more accurately a plaster casting of one.

Actors famed for their good looks like Carole Lombard, William Powell and Claudette Colbert would star in them as beautiful romantic leads, yet were also happy to humble themselves in the name of comedy — and no - one was as good - looking, nor as skilled at comedy, as Grant.

Rather than the usual romantic lead, McConaughey plays a murderer on the run.

It's an enjoyable departure from his normal roles, playing a comedic romantic lead, and he is affably fun to watch.

Over the last few years, we've seen Michael Fassbender in a number of different guises — British agent disguised as a Nazi, Roman warrior, Gothic romantic lead, metal - bending Holocaust - surviving mutant, repressed psychotherapist, rampant sex addict, treacherous secret agent, and Peter O'Toole - ish android.

Dick Powell, the 1930s crooner and boy next door romantic lead of dozens of musical comedies, changed his career trajectory overnight when he took the lead in the Edward Dmytryk - directed adaptation of «Farewell, My Lovely» (the title was changed for the movie just to let audiences know that this was a darker side of Powell).

With impeccable costuming, starry eyed romantic leads and a wholesome and earnest leading hero who would sooner jump onto a grenade, diminutive stature of not, to save his fellow soldiers than allow it to detonate.

But William Powell is the real romantic lead in the latter as a sports promoter who took Harlow out of the carnival and into the big time and still carries a torch for the dazzling girl.

The protagonist of Be My Cat: A Film for Anne is played by his namesake Adrian Țofei — and if Țofei serves as this film's director, writer, producer, DoP, editor, sound designer and production designer / manager, his character Adrian is also a first - time polyhyphenate filmmaker pitching his own movie called Be My Cat, and himself trying to get into character to play that film's creepy romantic lead.

The book, on the other hand, lays Bookman out for what he is: a dangerously unstable pederast — not exactly your garden variety romantic lead.