Sentences with phrase «straight man role»

Brolin, despite being a talented actor who has played a straight man role in a comedy before (2016's Hail, Ceasar!)

Throughout it all, Bradley Cooper tends to take the straight man role, playing up the machismo and swagger in a way that might remind some of a Matthew McConaughey or Vince Vaughn.

Not exact matches

It could be said that the villain and the addict are easier roles to play than the straight man, marked more by physicality than emotion.

Yes, queer people want to recruit the young, not by kidnapping young men... but by being mentors and role models who would show gay and lesbian adolescents that they are not alone, that they are not freaks, that they need not continue committing suicide at three times the rate of straight teenagers.»

I have time and again said I do not understand what ramsey's role in the midfield is — Xhaka does not have pace and does not WANT to tackle (which is good because the moment he does we will be a man down)-- so why is then Ramsey bombing up the pitch — because everytime Xhaka misplaces a pass the opposition will easily outpace him and run straight at the defence.

Ranocchia is yet to start a Serie A fixture this season, with his involvement in Roberto Mancini's first - team set - up being restricted to substitute roles, and given that Inter Milan have started the season with five straight victories and have conceded just one goal in that period, one imagines the former Genoa man may struggle to force his way back into the starting eleven any time soon.

But Klopp, after seeing Salah score for the seventh straight game, said his man deserved to be competing for English football's top individual honours alongside the Belgian, who has played such a key role in the progress of runaway Premier League leaders City this season.

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I am a straight female that enjoys role playing and indulging my man / sissyslut in his fantasies.

The cast of role - players each have their moments, with Brolin a great straight man and for funny - sexy - cute, nothing Beetz Zazie (TV's «Atlanta»).

The men are all pretty much the same, the women are also pretty much the same, and the small - town loser stereotypes are a bit stale, but Sarah Colonna plays a great wallflower with secret bondage fetish, Morena Baccarin is sassy and accessibly beautiful in a «regular girl» role, and Rosenbaum's likable straight man who does the honorable thing in the end is all the more impressive after having seen his real life dude - brah persona.

Frost takes the straight man, responsible, reserved role while Pegg has the more wacky, over the top, clueless, manchild personality.

In fact, many of his roles since 2007's «Atonement» haven't exactly challenged him, ranging from the straight man in «The Last Station» or whatever was going on in «Victor Frankenstein.»

Dave Foley, a great straight man, has a sizable role.

It's experimental in Pegg and Frost switching roles with Pegg playing the hot mess and Frost the straight man.

Brolin brings the gravitas and military-esque discipline needed for the role, and he is the perfect straight man to the overall humour of the action so often playing out around him.

Wood, who perfected the role of the confused straight man in FX's «Wilfred,» balances out Bennett's charming dopeyness, and Miguel Sandoval's interactions with Dustin Milligan provide some of the funniest moments of the premiere.

He provides the role of straight man in the human comedy — and because he's such a good actor, he makes it look easy.

Cheadle also does a fine job in the film, but his role is much less central than Gleeson's — he's almost there as a straight man, to play the jokes off of and provide an alternate perspective when it comes right down to it.

Usually the role of the nagging, responsible, «keeping her guy on track» wife / mother, Byrne pretty much steals the film from her male co-stars as Kelly too wants more in her life than to play the straight (wo) man, and her manic energy and increasingly creative plans inject the film with likeability and fun.

Jon could have been a pure straight man — our portal into the insane world of Frank — but Gleeson brings just the right degree of charm to the role to make him feel well - rounded without stealing focus from the title character or the action of the piece.

OH man, this movie was a great example of having a potentially distractingly famous cast, but justifying it b / c some of the minor roles are given such life by the likes of Stoll and Sarsgaard and even Adam Scott manages to play it straight here!

The success of Carrey's role depends on him playing the so - called «straight - faced man» - the only one who's sane while everything around him is strange or unusual.

Without spoiling anything, Wan's «muse» Patrick Wilson is given something much more dynamic than his usual straight - man role and does fairly well with it — even if he fails to reach that Nicholson «Jack Torrance» level of slow - burn mania.

The film is populated with a good supporting cast with Brian Co and Sean Bean playing the military heavies in straight - man roles.

In the Seth Gordon - directed Identity Thief, Jason Bateman plays his umpteenth role as an average guy / straight man (named Sandy Patterson — funny, right?)

Violet Tendencies (Unrated) Mindy Cohn handles the title role in this romantic comedy as a marriage - minded, 40 year - old with only gay pals who distances herself from them in order to attract a straight man (Armand Anthony).

At first glance, it may be a thankless role of being the straight man reacting to all the craziness, but he does it really well and provides a great proxy for the audience.

Man of the House has a little something to offer everyone — nice looking cheerleaders, some mild action, and Tommy Lee Jones in what may be his most straight - forward comedic role yet.

The three get along famously, but the moms, who learn about the meeting after the fact, are more cautious — not, it must be noted, because the newcomer is straight or even because he's a man, but because, having dropped out of college and never having sustained a lasting relationship, he doesn't strike them as role - model material.

(Better known for tough guy characters in Rollerball and Mission: Impossible, actor Jean Reno also displays his previously undisclosed talent for deadpan humor in this role as Martin's straight man.)

From small roles in the likes of Oscar baity films, such as Zero Dark Thirty and, le sigh, Parkland, to larger roles in unsung indie hits Humpday and Safety Not Guaranteed, and simply as the reliably affable straight man, Pete, on The League, it's easy to admit that Duplass has got range.

Elsewhere Imogen Poots impresses in a role that really amounts to one big scene with McAvoy, and in which she's otherwise largely the straight man to the shenanigans that go on around her, while John Sessions brings just the right level of institutionalized, «respectable» bigotry to the character of Robertson's superior officer.

Two former Martin co-stars sign up for supporting roles: the long - suffering Chief Inspector Dreyfus is now played by John Cleese (Kevin Kline having gone AWOL) and Lily Tomlin appears as Mrs. Berenger, a government official tasked with making the racist and sexist Clouseau P.C. Jeremy Irons even shows up to play straight man as a suspect in the thefts.

Many of his latter - day roles involve portraying yet another glowering solitary man, but aside from his obvious potential as a great straight man — somewhat misapplied in Much Ado About Nothing — there's still the charming rogue who could sell a swaggering comedy with ease.

Nielsen's credibility as a voice of authority made him an ideal straight man, and by the»90s he was working almost exclusively in comedic roles.

Cheadle deserves credit for sterling straight - man duties in an unglamorous role but this buddy movie is Gleesonâ $ ™ s show.

Rudd is back in a familiar role as a nice guy straight - man, who works hard, is well - intentioned, and finds himself in ridiculous situations.

They were gold with him being over the top and she playing the «straight - man» role.

Pryor's role wasn't written with him in mind, but he does change the pace just by his presence, and even the straight man Wilder pulls off some funny stuff in an amusing slapstick performance.

The against - type pairing of the cast with their on - screen personalities also impresses, with Pegg relishing idiosyncrasies rather than affability, and Frost pleasing in the straight - man role.

Players take the role of the right hand man to Gay Tony, owner of the most popular straight and gay dance clubs in the city.

A monumental monochromatic field of subdued color fulfills the role of straight - man to Prince's comic texts, sometimes presented plain and direct, sometime articulated in ghostly printed letters that seem to wax and wane in intensity across the canvas, and in the case of Untitled (Check Painting) # 13, text that has a material quality — painted over literal paper checks embedded into the canvas surface.