Sentences with phrase «skills as an actress»

The movie picks up shortly after the events of the first film, with our heroine Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence, whose skill as an actress is rapidly outgrowing the material) and fellow survivor / unrequited love interest Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) forced to pretend to be deeply, madly in love while on a national victory tour.

She is touching and reverberates throughout the film partially due to her skills as an actress and partially due to the superb script.

I departed the stage after the opera house where I honed by skills as an actress switched from Red Vines to Twizzlers (they are an inferior product).

Not exact matches

While working as an actress on various television shows, commercials, & movies, Angel began honing her skills as a stand - up comedian and host.

Refining her skills in improvisational theater, she later found roles in commercials and small local productions, though her future as an actress came into question as she pursued further education and a move overseas.

Though McAdams» early screen roles found her specializing in the bitchy teen princess to maximum effect, closer inspection reveals a skilled dramatic actress who no doubt has the talent to move beyond the high - school trappings of such comedies as The Hot Chick and Mean Girls.Born to a truck driver and a nurse in London, Ontario, Canada, McAdams warmed to the spotlight early on by taking up competitive skating at just four years old.

Both programs gave the actress ample opportunity to display her considerable singing and dancing skills, as did her extended cameo in the 1965 Blake Edwards superproduction The Great Race.

The actress known equally for her acting skills as her beauty, added that she does not like being vocal about her love life and prefers to keep it personal.

The movie as a whole isn't that great, but there's one five - minute stretch in the middle of the erotic (ish) drama Fifty Shades Of Grey that suggests what might've been, had the filmmakers remembered they'd hired a skilled comic actress as their lead.

Yeoh gets to do plenty in the final half - hour, though much of the action doesn't really spotlight what makes her different from Western action stars; it's as though the producers — so used to standard Hollywood action, with its high - tech hardware, special - effects wizardry and stunt doubles — didn't know what to do with an actress who has actual physical skills.

«The Queen» (2006) is a movie in which Helen Mirren, a British actress of limitless skills, often seen as a very ordinary person, plays the Queen of England.

Only Carey Mulligan struggles, in the role of Daisy, the woman torn between the two men; a cipher on the page, she's not easily rendered as flesh and blood on the screen, even by an actress of Mulligan's skill.

A few obvious makeup changes make her resemble the woman we saw so often on TV (curly hair, darker skin, the swelling belly), but Jolie's performance depends above all on inner conviction; she reminds us, as we saw in some of her earlier films like «Girl, Interrupted» (1999), that she is a skilled actress and not merely (however entertainingly) a Tomb Raider.

The 30 - second clip showcases the German - born actress emphasizing her luck - based powers and proficiency in combat for her recruitment into Deadpool «s X-Force team, as she's essentially regarded for her exceptional marksmanship and hand - to - hand skills in the Marvel universe.

Which isn't to say it's not fun to see Lisa Kudrow (another skilled, and frequently underestimated comic actress) as the unhappy wife, or the great June Squibb as a no - nonsense senior.

Sigourney Weaver was seen more as a dramatic actress, but she showed good skills here as the straight woman.

Jennifer Merin: Beautifully crafted with exceptionally skilled storytelling, spectacular cinematography, flawless editing, and stunning lead performances by first - time actresses and real life sisters Lene Cecilia Sparrok as Elle - Marje and Mia Erika Sparrok as her sister, Njenna, Sami Blood is Amanda Kernell's first feature.

For my money, Jennifer Jason Leigh is, with due respect to her predecessors, the first truly great actress to have a major part in a Tarantino film, and as eager as the other characters are to use her as a punching bag, she's more than that; she's a skilled, tough player in this game of elimination who uses every card she holds (or can make the other players think she holds).