Sentences with phrase «typecast actors»

Dorame often paints masks to reference the actor's ability to assume the position of the other, as well as Hollywood's willingness to typecast actors of color.

Of course Keaton never hit rock bottom like his character did, but the movie gives you a glimpse what hardships that actors like Adam West, Clayton Moore, and other typecast actors and actresses struggled with when their star stopped burning bright.

Sandler is a actor who has become one of the most typecast actors in the world today but his personality really works in this film.

Not exact matches

Nick DeMaio is an aspiring actor who is perpetually typecast as «Gangster Number 3» in films about the Mob.

The lead actors are typecast, with Ferrell being goofy SNL - style, Vince Vaughn doing the loudmouth jackass thing he did so well in Swingers and Made and Luke Wilson acting as the straight man like in Bottle Rocket or Legally Blonde, but the refreshing thing is how the three play off each other.

Though initially typecast in comedic roles — including a small turn in Old School (2003), a contribution to Tracey Ullman in The Trailer Tales (2003), and work on MADtv — American character actor Simon Helberg quickly branched out into diverse genres.

Each actor is always typecast and plays it «safe» when it comes to making choices in their movies, but this film is a complete role reversal and shows what they are capable of doing.

Kurt Russell heads an ensemble cast comprised primarily of character actors, including the likes of Wilford Brimley (before he became typecast as a folksy grandpa), Richard Dysart (who would later become a regular in the TV series L.A. Law), Keith David, Richard Masur, Donald Moffat, and Charles Hallahan.

Over the past decade, Shannon has been increasingly typecast as either a twitchy weirdo on societal margins or an earnest simpleton, but Bahrani, in a stroke of casting gumption that makes one wonder why he's the first to make the move, has redirected the actor's distinctly coiled facial features and natural gift for commanding a room toward a character with genuinely threatening social and economic power.

Denzel Washington even explains how and why Hollywood typecasts certain actors for certain roles.

Carrey's performance strikes new notes of bitterness both apt for a character who's grown surly in the way of people who don't progress for one reason or another, and «meta» - feeling, given that the actor's essentially landed back at square one after decades of struggling to branch out, though it's important to note that Carrey himself instigated the project and that, whatever frustrations he may have about typecasting, he attacks the role with gusto.

Much of this positivity can be credited to the casting of Gal Gadot in the title role, a role that she will no doubt be associated with for pretty much the rest of her career in the same way that Christopher Reeve was with Superman, and that isn't to say either actor is typecast but they just nailed everything about the character they portray so much that it is difficult to think of them as anything else.

It's typecasting to a «T», which isn't a bad thing — the actors absorb their roles with total conviction.

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.

The character perfectly personified every single actor and actress like Adam West, Clayton Moore, and Gary Coleman who was typecast and disposed of when their popularity vanished.

Patricia observes that, unlike many other actors, you have managed to avoid being typecast.

The English actor on the inevitability of typecasting, settling into characters, and Per Fly's Backstabbing for Beginners.

Regarding the actors chosen, Goddard joked with THR, «It's really just your basic typecasting: When you need two actors to run through the woods in low - cut nighties, you immediately think of Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford.»

Where Doctor Strange falls short is in the recently troublesome superhero «big bad» and despite the presence of esteemed actor Mads Mikkelsen (who sadly has become a bit of a villain typecast in recent years), the purple eyed Kaecilius, who wants nothing more than to meet a world destroying entity is anything but the adversary the unique Stephen Strange deserved, while the previously mentioned nature of this following the playbook origin story isn't breaking much ground in the way it tells the story of a man at his lowest finally realising his true potential.

Goggins has been typecast as a silver - tongued flimflam man, in the tradition of the characters he played in Justified and The Hateful Eight, but the actor is so sensually, poetically alive that it doesn't matter, especially next to Eastwood's hopelessly contemporary man of few words.

To waste are an appealing cast of actors, most notably Kal Penn (Harold & Kumar, Van Wilder), whose agent really should strive to find him something to get him out of the sex comedy rut he's in before he gets permanently typecast.

Actors are often afraid of being typecast as comic - book heroes, but Boseman didn't worry about it.

Many of these actors, including Eisenberg and Stewart, get pigeonholed and typecast, never getting to show their full range.

Female actors especially had few roles to choose from unless they were typecasts as «mums, sexless crones or cougars.»

The director was smart enough to take a trait that often caused an actor to be be typecast as a menacing figure and turn it into a strength.

Like an actor typecast after a blockbuster, an author who has a best - selling series right out of the gate can have difficulty emerging from its shadow.

I guess it's the equivalent of actors being typecast as the funny guy or the villain.

When people have asked about the ways my career as an actor became associated with Lincoln — theater, TV, documentaries, readings and such — I'd say, «If you're going to get stuck in a role, you could do worse than be typecast as Abraham Lincoln.»