The phrase
"scene partner" refers to a person you perform or act with in a scene, play, or film. They are like your acting teammate, with whom you share dialogue and actions on stage or in front of the camera.
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Big love and gratitude to my lady Macbeth and the
greatest scene partner on God's green earth, Paula Malcomson.
Grace's own story is a slow burn of unvoiced trauma that could have been frustrating in the hands of another actress, but is delicately handled by Larson and
primary scene partner Gallagher, Jr..
Unassuming, but fiercely present with her
adept scene partners Chiwetel Ejiofor and Chris Pine, she sells Ann's naive sexual awakening without getting lost in the film's more overt themes.
But the structure of Let the Sunshine In — a series of fragments, like Barthes's inquisition — calls for Isabelle to engage in multiple tête - à - têtes; with her
deft scene partners, Binoche's more flamboyant instincts are tempered, or at least tethered.
Potter follows various characters throughout the evening, sometimes overlapping action and dialogue of
different scene partners.
Anne - Marie Duff and Helena Bonham Carter stand out,
game scene partners for Mulligan that provide much needed texture to the relationships beyond what the scripts provides.
Check out
dynamic scene partners Katherine Heigl and Seth Rogen auditioning for Judd Apatow's 2007 comedy «Knocked Up!»
Mostly, the performances I love felt like they belonged exactly where they were and engendered equal feelings of surprise and inevitability in me: Of course Hugh Grant would prove the
perfect scene partner for Meryl Streep in Florence Foster Jenkins, and how could nobody have thought of it sooner?
JT: Your most
frequent scene partner was Michael Fassbender, who has rightfully earned a reputation as one of the best actors working today.
The two eventually
become scene partners, then friends, despite the fact that «beautifully, chaotically wrong» seems to describe not just Wiseau's acting style, but his entire life, from his filthy apartment to his maniacal outbursts to his delusions of grandiosity.
Befitting writer - director Jarmusch's deadpan style, Depp gives one of his stranger and more low - key performances, allowing more
florid scene partners like the terrific Farmer, Lance Henrickson, John Hurt and, in his final film appearance, Robert Mitchum, to steal scenes as often as need be.
With or without
female scene partners (or directors, for that matter), a streak of feminist resolve has run through a number of Vikander's recent projects, including Testament of Youth, Ex Machina and The Danish Girl.
Posey and Hennig are
great scene partners and it's nice to see them team up for much of this season, with a particularly strong sequence showing the two of them trapped in a room together.
AWS is a behind - the -
scenes partner for more than 1 million customers, from tiny mom - and - pop shops to Fortune 500 leviathans, providing online infrastructure to support their websites, applications, inventory management, and databases.
It was so complex and there was actual scenes with
a scene partner.
Building the store has been a big job for Fanatics, which is usually a behind - the -
scenes partner.
But it is not quite like improv, given that Damon has
no scene partners for the most part.
«The best way for me to make sense of that response is that these kinds of pranks are like an improv scene where the public is
our scene partner.
If
your scene partner is pretending there's a table right in front of you, and you walk right through the table as though it weren't there, the audience won't buy in.
«In improv, before you even say a word, you check in with
your scene partner.
Worse, you'll alienate
your scene partner, making both of you ineffective.
Our philosophy, «Yes, and...» tells us as improvisers that we support and we agree with
our scene partner 100 % AND to add new and interesting information.
Whether with
a scene partner or alone — there are several segments in A Fantastic Woman that depict Marina in silent solitude — Vega unerringly calibrates the emotions roiling beneath a serene surface.
There was also plenty of conversation about a scene where Reynolds» Wade Wilson is «pegged» (penetrated with a strap - on by
his scene partner Morena Baccarin) but «the scene was played as a joke and as a painful moment that Wade himself was not actually wanting to engage in other than as a favor to his lover.»
Teller always has a way off playing off
his scenes partners really well no matter the kind of film, which makes the relationships all the more believable.
Her scene partners are just as strong.
What did he give you as
a scene partner?
Bonus points for pairing him with a firecracker of
a scene partner in Michael Keaton as the Vulture.
At the film's Los Angeles press day, Collider got the opportunity to sit down with actor Sebastian Stan (who gives a terrific performance as Harding's mustachioed and impetuous ex-husband Jeff Gillooly) to chat 1 - on - 1 about why he wanted to play this character, what he was most excited and most nervous about, the impression he got from meeting Jeff Gillooly, having Margot Robbie as
a scene partner, and what it means to be a part of the awards conversation with this film.
STAN: I couldn't have asked for a better
scene partner.
He was a great
scene partner.»
In small projects or large, in the «Annie» remake, even, Byrne is a rarity: a versatile performer with an intuitive ability to bounce off any and
every scene partner, in all kinds of material — great, lousy, or in this case, fairly / pretty / reasonably effective.
Greta Gerwig does such wonderful, beautiful work as
a scene partner here, taking her moments when they come but also as supportive an ensemble player as she's ever been.
Her scene partner did, too:
In Mad Men, Elisabeth Moss has given perhaps the finest female dramatic performance on American television this side of Edie Falco in The Sopranos, and this simple exchange contains everything that makes her Peggy so fascinating and affecting — the unexpected cadences and pauses, the precise line readings, and her face, on the cusp of either smile or frown, dominated by her wide, soulful eyes, which seem constantly to search for, connect with, and then avert those of
her scene partner.
So what was it like for Krasinski, a Boston native, to work work with Damon — who won an Academy Award for co-writing the iconic Boston movie «Good Will Hunting» — as both a writing partner and
a scene partner?
What did Julia give you as
a scene partner that elevated your performance?
It helps that he has great
scene partners, from the marvelous Zoe Kazan playing Emily to the sensational pairing of Ray Romano and Holly Hunter in the roles of Emily's parents.
«You wanted to be careful of
your scene partner, and you also had to shine light on the scene with your own flashlight, so there was just extra things you had to be aware of.
If you focus on making
your scene partners look good, you will also look good.
This is all done to heighten their focus on really listening to
their scene partners instead of just waiting for that person to stop talking so that they can say what they already had planned.
In improvisational acting, it is immensely important that you listen and really hear
your scene partners so that your response and reaction is pure and organic.
For instance, if you are in a scene and you imagined you were «the mother» but then
your scene partner leans over and pets you and says, «Good boy, wan na go for a walk?»
As a teacher, your students are
your scene partners.
So if I'm on stage and you're my stage partner and you come in saying «Captain, Captain, the duck is sick,» I have to recognize that I'm the captain of something and
my scene partner is very concerned about this duck.
Those interpretations aren't about judging
a scene partner, she says; it's about using the reactions to get a baseline read on the participant that can then inform the ensuing interactions.
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