"To inhabit the character" means fully immersing oneself in the role or personality of a fictional character. It involves understanding their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors in order to portray them convincingly.
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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.
For Variety «s «Actors on Actors,» Hong Chau and Diane Kruger sat down to talk about
inhabiting characters who've experienced loss, feeling like they're meant for a particular role, and more.
Day -
Lewis inhabits the character fully, in his distinctive gait and posture (his back sometimes bending into a question - mark), his reedy voice (given the painstaking amount of historical research that went into the rest of the movie, it must be based in fact) and the more honest - feeling portrayal of his moral righteousness, which wasn't as arrow - straight as most like to think it was.
In an April 2013 article about television for Wired, Jordan Crucchiola called actor David Costabile «a performer who
inhabits his characters so perfectly as to consistently be a fan favorite.»
Chopra
inhabited this character for the two days, changing into masculine and feminine costumes that challenge assumptions about race and gender.
He emanates a raw intensity that can't be matched, the consummate ideal of
wholly inhabiting a character making each one different without losing site of him, the actor, at the same time.
We watched all three of these young actors literally grow up on screen, but more importantly become comfortable in their own skin and
really inhabit the characters that will most likely define them for the rest of their lives — or at the very least another 10 or 15 years.
Scarlett Johansson and Bill
Murray inhabit these characters so fully and with such restraint and subtlety that you can watch each scene repeatedly and find some new quiet choice they make that really helps you to understand who they are.
Who amongst does not tear up a little bit thinking about how perfectly the voices of Paige O'Hara, Jerry Orbach, Angela Lansbury, and
others inhabited their characters?
It's bizarre to be
virtually inhabiting a character who is virtually inhabiting another, and suggests yet another layer of creative possibility for VR games down the line.
«No
one inhabits a character like Jim Carrey, and this role — which is like watching Humpty Dumpty after the fall — is going to leave television audiences wondering how they went so long without him,» said David Nevins, President and CEO of Showtime Networks.
As her longtime husband, Lt Colonel James «Jim» A Johnson, Ali is once again given only a handful of scenes in which to
convincingly inhabit a character who serves as the lesser - seen half of a fated couple.
Transformation episode details: Whether observing and satirizing society or reinventing icons of literature, art history, and popular culture, the artists featured in Transformation capture the sensibilities of our age while at
times inhabiting the characters they have created.
Cumberbatch [is] absolutely extraordinary in being able to
inhabit the character of Turing... Who would've thought that mathematics could be so fascinating?
Granted, the part doesn't exactly seem like a stretch for Love, but
she inhabits the character nicely and it doesn't feel like she's simply playing herself.
The cast are all given room to
inhabit their characters and so the audience is allowed to root for the near mindless violence ladled out before us.
Oldman goes beyond mimicry to fully
inhabit his character.
They inhabit characters you want to spend time with.
He inhabits the character.
The BFI described her as a «fearless and subtle actress,» adding «she has the rare gift of seeming utterly to
inhabit the characters she plays and has an amazing ability to convey complex layers of emotion to stunning effect.»
Early clips from I Saw the Light show how well Tom Hiddleston has
inhabited the character of country & western legend Hank Williams.
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inhabiting these characters with such texture, color, humor and pain.
- Transfering R.I.P.D: A «Making Of» that focuses on the adaption of the original R.I.P.D. comic and the stellar cast that came to inhabit the characters