Sentences with phrase «typecast characters»

But in the story department, Disney continues to paint by the numbers, using the same group of typecast characters.

Dwayne Johnson plays one of the children who are sucked into the video game and play a typecast character there.

Not exact matches

Frustrated with Disney's tendency to typecast its princesses as straight size, Michelle Elman, a 24 - year - old body - confidence coach from London, England, (aka @ScarredNotScared) and Amy Wooldridge, a 27 - year - old body - positive advocate from Chelmsford, England, (aka @amyeloisew) recently dressed up as the kind of characters they'd like to see more of and posted the photos on Instagram this week:

Nor was I playing any other typecast girl - next - door characters.

The part was somewhat indicative of Ineson's typecast, not from the standpoint of obnoxious characters, but from the standpoint of aggression; time and again, he came to specialize in playing dominant, outspoken, Type A personalities.

After being typecast as a gangster he gradually expanded the scope of his roles, and, in the»40s, gave memorable «good guy» performances as in a number of psychological dramas; he played federal agents, scientists, Biblical characters, business men, bank clerks, among other characters.

Though often consigned by Hollywood's typecasting system to workaday villain roles, Kenneth Tobey has not be forgotten by filmmakers who grew up watching his horror - flick endeavors of the 1950s; he has been afforded key cameo roles in such latter - day shockers as Strange Invaders (1983) and Gremlins 2: The New Batch, and in 1985 he reprised his Thing From Another World character in The Attack of the B - Movie Monsters.

The Family Stone sorts out its characters admirably, depends on typecasting to help establish its characters more quickly, and finds a winding path between happy and sad secrets.

While his turn is a welcome one from the eccentrics and misfits to which he's typecast, the character's reaction is puzzling.

Abbie Cornish plays Elizabeth Throckmorton, and though she's still being typecast as the strumpet, her character is completely endearing and wonderfully conflicted.

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.

I think Skarsgard would do well to avoid being typecast as evil clown characters, after «It».

But Amy is far from merely a character actress prone to typecast.

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.

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.

And Ben Foster, typecast as a demented Indian - killer, manages to complicate the question of what makes his character a psychopath and Bale's a hero — to which Blocker's answer, «I was just doing my job,» seems wholly inadequate.

James Marsden, who can be seen in the upcoming indie flick «Robot & Frank,» on imitating SNL characters to get girls and being typecast.

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.

With all the adulation I can give Mr. Neeson, It just seems that he is being typecast into playing the same character over and over.

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

between typecasting an Asian «dragon lady» versus whitewashing the Asian character, as if it's impossible to write an Asian character well and cast appropriately.

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.

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.

While I don't believe Ellen Page was typecast from Juno, there are many similarities between the two characters.

The characters are delightfully typecast - there's the tragic figure of our much put - upon anti-hero who is driven to commit violence for what he believes is a justified cause; a truly dastardly old - Etonian poetry - spouting villain (who, if this was a play, would receive hisses from the audience every time he came on stage); the exceedingly wealthy and influential Lord Tansor, living off the gains of his brighter ancestors; a dead - ringer for Uriah Heap; plus a massive supporting cast representing every strata of society, both urban and country; and last but not least, Evenwood House itself and its great library - the representation of everything that Edward yearns for but that remains tantalizingly out of reach.

«If I talk to much about this Avi might get mad at me,» he said, «but after thinking about it more, it's probably better to go for someone new, a rising star, someone who hasn't been typecast before as a particular kind of character, so that's the route we're going right now.

The characters of Cindy Sherman, although made up, call out the precise, typecast cultural and social representations of women in a cogent way that stays with you long after you've witnessed their visual power for the first time.

Installation view of Typecasting exhibition - An Assembly of Iconic, Forgotten and New Vitra Characters - curated and designed by Robert Stadler at La Pelota.

The depicted characters break with one typecast (angelic) while fitting another (demonic).