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As an stage actor playing Caliban currently I would like to say that this movie is deeply flawed.

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Films like J. Edgar and The Aviator (for which he got a Leading Role nomination) require him to play a single character through many stages of his life, never allowing the actor to fully inhabit characters at a single point in time.

Struggling to get into the business as an actor, writer, or director, Fogel co-wrote the stage play «Jewtopia» with Sam Wolfson in 2003.

God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage - managers, who had since made a great mess of it.»

I recently had the pleasure of watching a stage production of CS Lewis» Screwtape Letters featuring a magnificent solo performance by actor and director Max Mclean as the titular devil of the play.

As primary actors in the speaker's drama they stage in pulpits, chancels, or at Table, preachers first play roles in the speaker's dramas present in the canon as biblical texts.

Taking once again the picture of a five act play, it is as if we are the actors on the stage, and the Holy Spirit is in the wings, whispering our lines to us and telling us where to go.

The movie itself is hard to review, as it's filled with Perry's usual mix of wildly conflicting emotions of happiness and sadness, faith and despair, and is often over-the-top due to its prior history as a stage play in which the actors all played loudly to the back seats of theaters nationwide.

MacLeish's contribution, other than bringing the story into the 20th century, making a great contribution to the tiny, tiny pool of American poetic drama, and winning the 1959 Pulitzer with it, is quite a bit of additional commentary by his God and Satan characters, a pair of washed - up actors who observe the Job story being played on a stage, and occasionally take part in it.

As he features in a stage play dubbed «the ladder», organized by the National Theater and the Nyansapo Productions, as part of celebrations to climax the National Theater Festival, at the National Theatre auditorium in Accra, comedian and actor, who also doubles as a musician and a dancer, Bismark Nii Odoi, once again caught the eyes of his fans, with his amazing natural prowess in comedy, making it uncomfortable without bursting into laughter, seeing him display in every second in every scene.

The Conservative politician will be played by Alexander Hanson, the Norwegian - born British stage actor who played opposite Elaine Paige in Sunset Boulevard in 1995 and played Pilate in the 2012 UK tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's popular musical Jesus Christ Superstar.

Shin Ha - kyun (b. May 30, 1974) first trained as a stage actor at the Seoul National University of Arts before going on to act in a large number of plays by Posts about Park Shin Hye fanfiction written by vira65

An imposing and highly memorable presence on the Broadway stage, actor Frank Langella has won only a fraction of the acclaim he's received in the theater for his film career; still, his brooding good looks and his ability to play both villains and comic foils with a touch of menace has made him a welcome (and increasingly familiar) fare to film buffs.

A titan in the field of low - budget movie - making, Australian - born stage actor J.P. McGowan enjoyed his first major success directing his wife Helen Holmes in the immensely popular and lucrative Hazards of Helen series, in which he also often played the villain.

Best known today for playing Officer Torch in Universal's Flash Gordon serials, American character actor Earl Leslie Askam had studied voice in Italy and appeared in numerous stage operettas prior to making his screen debut in 1930.

Mr. Wilson, a stage actor who played Julius Beaufort in «The Age of Innocence,» is extraordinary at capturing Gerardo's confusion, as he wonders if his wife is right or deranged.

Goeth, played fascinatingly by the English stage actor Ralph Fiennes, is the film's most sobering creation.

In 2005, Mr. Abraham penned A MIDSUMMER NIGHT»S DREAM: ACTORS ON SHAKESPEARE, a commentary chronicling his experience playing the character of Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream on stage.

He also hired an actor to play Francis in staged scenes filmed in the style of a black - and - white silent movie from the 1920s.

While Liz and Steven are going their divorce papers, she meets an actor David Piccolo (James Franco) who meet while he's performing a stage play.

Farrell's performance in the stage play Skidding established her reputation, and in 1929 she was wooed to Hollywood along with many other stage actors in the wake of the «talkie» revolution.

American - born stage and screen actor Elizabeth Marvel will play President - elect Elizabeth Keane on Season 6 of HOMELAND.

American actor Clinton Kimbrough spent the most distinguished part of his career on - stage appearing in plays written by such greats as Eugene O'Neill, Tenneseee Williams, and Thornton Wilder.

Celebrated as a fine stage actor, he recently had a triumphant return to Canada's renowned Stratford Shakespeare Festival where he played two lead roles, Cyrano de Bergerac, directed by his wife, Donna Feore, and MacBeth.

He first gained prominence as one of Canada's premiere stage actors through thirteen seasons with the prestigious Stratford Festival, playing virtually all of Shakespeare's leading men, from Richard III and Iago to Romeo and Hamlet.

Chewing the scenery MY ASS Anne Hathaway did a spectacular playing Tantee A PERSON IN PAIN as she is singing she is putting emotion into the song that way we feel the pain she's going through how is that in any way «chewing the scenery» 2nd the close - ups have a purpose Tom Hooper wanted to you to feel the actor's emotion's and he wanted to see the actors sing up - close because obviously this is a sad story and he wanted it to look like staged play is that a crime 3rd why is everyone nitpicking we get a good quality movie for the first time and this is what u do NITPICK NITPICK NITPICK this was a fantastic movie and you know it nitpickers

An accomplished stage actor, Cheadle originated the role of Booth in Suzan - Lori Parks» Pulitzer Prize winning play TOP DOG UNDERDOG at New York's Public Theatre under the direction of George C. Wolfe.

Singer, writer, and actor of stage and screen, Renoly Santiago made his film debut playing Raul in the Michelle Pfeiffer vehicle Dangerous Minds (1995).

In one funny sequence early on, Thor witnesses an Asgardian stage play featuring costumed actors portraying him, Odin and Thor's adopted brother, Loki.

He occasionally forsook double - breasted suits and snap - brim hats for the garb of a hillbilly (1934's Kentucky Kernels) or cowboy (he played a stage actor impersonating the recently deceased Jesse James in 1941's The Return of the Frank James).

Character actor Bill Quinn specialized in playing wise or fatherly roles on stage, screen, and television.

This aesthetic permeates every aspect of Foul Play — enemies are not monsters but extras and actors in costume; sets come and go as they would in a real stage production; and props and larger - than - thespian beasts are constructed from wood and rope.

«Once» is quite the stage experience and features a very impressive ensemble of actor / musicians who play their own instruments onstage.

The problem with this Richard LaGravenese adaptation of Jason Robert Brown's 2002 stage show is that the asynchrony that exists between its characters extends to the actors playing them, making the film feel uneven for the wrong reasons.

Veteran French star Vincent Lindon earned prolonged applause as he took the stage to pick up the best actor award for Stéphane Brizé's The Measure of a Man, in which he plays a man crushed by his job as a supermarket security guard.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Only the third film that the acclaimed actor has made as a director (after 2002's Antwone Fisher and his last, 2007's The Great Debaters), Washington certainly had familiarity with August Wilson's beloved Pulitzer Prize - winning material when he decided to bring it to the big screen; the actor won a Tony Award of his own for starring in the 2010 revival of the production, to go along with the play's Tony for Best Revival (and the many that it won during its first run on stage in 1987).

Pacino plays Simon Axler, a fading 65 - year - old stage and film actor (who looks and acts more like Pacino's real age of 74).

In Lenny, veteran stage actor and manager Julian Barry adapts his Broadway play of the same name, which ran for thirteen months at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.

Really, though, all four men are pretty great actors and it would be interesting to see them join the Star Wars universe, but it's impossible to know what roles, if any, they'd be playing at this stage in the game.

Anna Paquin (True Blood) actually plays the moody protagonist Lisa Cohen, a relatively wealthy New York City teen, daughter of a somewhat successful stage actor (played by J. Smith - Cameron).

The show turns out to be propaganda by Loki himself, who's disguised himself as Odin; meanwhile, the on - stage Odin is played by Sam Neill, Thor by another Hemsworth brother, Liam, and Loki by possibly the most famous actor in the entire film, whom I completely failed to recognize.

What It Could Win: The movie is an adaptation of a 1983 August Wilson play, and the 2010 stage version — which also starred Denzel Washington and Viola Davis — earned Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play, Best Actor and Best Actrplay, and the 2010 stage version — which also starred Denzel Washington and Viola Davis — earned Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play, Best Actor and Best ActrPlay, Best Actor and Best Actress.

Thus, the reference to Birdman: a movie about an actor attempting to erase the memories of his superhero alter ego by staging a serious play; a movie in which an actor's superhero alter ego follows him like a ghost, reminding him it's the hero people want to see, not the washed - up actor and his play; a movie that exists as a rebuke to the tights - clad tentpoles that have taken over the industry.

Playing George the gorilla involved staged panic attacks and grueling mountain workouts, actor tells TheWrap

Using an overqualified cast, he attempts to breathe new life to this gritty tale of the Parisian lower class in the late 19th century, but not even his actors can make up for what is essentially a staging of life's worst case scenarios played out by beautiful people.

I read and read and kept thinking «Uh hello... James McAvoy, brilliant stage and film actor, plays THE MAN HIMSELF, Victor Frankenstein, but you mention a bunch of Sherlock actors and put his name in «details», like the insignificant actor he must be to Time Out?»

For actor - director Denzel Washington, it's a massive gamble translating a beloved stage play blow - by - blow to the big screen.