Sentences with phrase «serious dramatic role»

The supporting actress category is usually all about honoring accomplished character actresses who have broken through in a serious dramatic role.

He rounded out the 90's with the title role in George of the Jungle, a serious dramatic role in the superb film Gods and Monsters about the director James Whale and a flirtation he has with the Fraser character, and another supremely underrated comedy, Blast from the Past, about a man who emerges from a bomb shelter after 35 years and falls in love with Alicia Silverstone.

After appearing in a more serious dramatic role in Wes Anderson's «Rushmore,» Bill has been experiencing a film renaissance, with tons of critical praise for his work in films like «The Royal Tenenbaums» and «Lost in Translation,» which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor.

Also, I do think Chris Pratt can play a serious dramatic role, but in a movie like this, where it is very self - serious most of the time, and doesn't give his character much to do, let Chris Pratt make jokes, and release some of the forced tension.

At open auditions, he meets the plucky yet overdramatic Ruth (Alison Brie of Community and Mad Men fame), an aspiring actress bound and determined to shoehorn her dreams of serious dramatic roles into a gig that's mainly about big hair, fake falls and all - around exaggeration.

I'd become so accustomed to Burt Lancaster in serious dramatic roles that his brilliantly subtle humor took me by surprise.

He has such great talent (as seen in Zero Effect) and should do more serious dramatic roles.

The intensity Theron brings to her serious dramatic roles makes her an interesting choice to play Kelly, someone who is not necessarily known for projecting warmth.

Not exact matches

Occasionally, Pangborn longed for more dramatic roles, so to satisfy himself artistically he'd play non-comic parts for Edward Everett Horton's Los Angeles - based Majestic Theatre; Pangborn's appearance in Preston Sturges» Hail the Conquering Hero (1942) likewise permitted him a few straight, serious moments.

However, Jonah Hill has rejected the playbook that was pre-written for him after Superbad and built a career unlike any actor Hollywood has ever seen by turning down typecast roles and specifically using key roles to springboard him to wider possibilities — thus setting him up as a serious dramatic actor, a major creative force, and an unexpected streetwear ambassador.

Of course, I don't think Samantha Morton could act badly if you told her to, but this has to have been one of the more challenging roles she's ever taken on... not just anyone can turn a whimpering, confused (psychic) kidnapping victim in a sci - fi picture into a serious and introspective dramatic role.

Alfie Allen (Rock) has more recently turned his eye to dramatic roles, starring in a serious — and seriously awful — Haitian revolutionary film he keeps referring to as «the Haitian Django.»

The man is best known as a writer / director of comedy (Defending your Life, Lost in America, The Muse) does a serious left turn in a highly dramatic role.