Sentences with phrase «typecast for»

A near - legend for his portraits of the deranged and demonic, he was deeply unhappy by the end of the Seventies about being typecast for so long, and in despair that he might never play «a whole human being.»

Its sharp lines contort readily into a devilish, toothy smile, and, while he's wielded it to great success in roles as diverse as the Green Goblin in Spider - Man and Nosferatu in Shadow Of The Vampire, he's never been typecast for it.

She needs some time away from her social group and her boyfriend Anthony (played by Mark Webber, who always gets typecast for these kind of roles) to clear her mind and to find herself.

Senior daters tend to develop a typecast for their dates over the years, and worse, they often.

Senior daters tend to develop a typecast for their dates over the years, and worse, they often become rigid about what physical type of man or woman they deem acceptable.

this flick overthrows the usual typecasting for humprey bogart and babara stanwyck, the former constantly as detective hero or gangster villain; the later freuently as self - assured heroine or shrewd femme fatale.

Not exact matches

But Tahir built up his chops by acting in plays while waiting for film and television roles to trickle in, and turning down parts when they felt too much like typecasting.

As a Christian, I find that I make the same mistakes atheists make; I resent people typecasting me just as others do, I get my feelings hurt when people bash me for no reason, I get angry when I see selfish, mean people attacking others needlessly, and I hate war, death, and cruelty where ever it is found.

Like many early meat alternative brands, it was relegated to a corner in the refrigerated case of supermarkets and health food stores, «typecast as being just for «alternative» diets,» says Lahrman.

After dating for years I finally met my partner online when I stopped typecasting my dates.

«It's going to start to offend other people... You do get typecast into a certain category — Pinterest is for women, this one's for that, this one is for casual sex — and I don't know that you can be all things to everyone on any single social networking site,» says Spira, the online dating expert.

The Boomer Guide covers all the basics, i.e. how to write a perfect profile, and how to choose appropriate dates, but it also includes critical questions to ask a first date that determine their suitability for a second, how a basic emotional vocabulary resolves dating problems, why trust and vulnerability begin, albeit slowly, on a first date, and why typecasting dates is a major mistake.

The same can be said for the rest of the cast, from Penelope Cruz's cardboard heroine to Lennie James» typecast villain.

Gad is often typecast as the screw - up slob (see: Love & Other Drugs) but recent choices such as Thanks for Sharing and this show he does have range when given the shot at redemption.

Kidman finally broke out of her window - dressing typecasting when Gus Van Sant enlisted her to portray the ruthless protagonist of To Die For (1995).

For instance, first the Little Miss Perfect virgin Corey (Liv Tyler, still wearing her schoolgirl outfit from the Aerosmith video «Crazy») has her plan to offer herself to sleaze idol Rex Manning (a typecast Maxwell Caulfield) blow up in her face, then Corey's best male friend, A.J. (Johnny Whitworth), ruins what they have by telling her he loves her, then the filmmakers decide, out of the blue and halfway through the film at this point, that Corey is addicted to diet pills.

In between mugging for the camera and reciting flat dialogue with the stunned cadence of the damned, the boys try to collar dealer Reese (Vince Vaughn) and his low class mistress Kitty (a permanently typecast Juliette Lewis).

In the aforementioned framing device, Ben Whishaw, playing a far too soft and obsequious Melville, shows up at the inn of pickled, traumatized Thomas Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson, typecast) one dark and stormy night seeking raw material from the former Essex cabin boy for his upcoming novel about whalers.

It is brilliant typecasting and the play sparkles with wit and verve and even a little pathos for the do - gooder Kyra, who misses the good life of her former lover - employer Tom, since she's now living in a freezing flat and can't even afford to buy edible cheese on her school - teacher - to - the - poor salary.

If Longoria Parker ever hopes to ascend into the movie stardom stratosphere, she'd better start looking for roles that don't typecast her as a desperately spoiled, high - maintenance housewife.

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.

While he still works frequently in the genre, Young succesfully shook off his typecasting as «the horror guy» a few years ago (perhaps his Golden Globe nomination for 2001's The Shipping News signalling the final shackle coming off); and this is probably his strongest «serious» score since then.

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.

Everyone here transcends their typecasting, including slacker balladeers Mark and Jay Duplass, who make a bid for mainstream success (two words: car chase) without precisely abandoning their idiosyncrasies, such as their camcorder - honed / derived aesthetic — which establishes a cinematic grammar that allows for shabby but essential angles like a shot of Segel's hair poking up from behind a vending machine.

Christopher Mintz - Plasse is also in excellent form playing the school bully that's a surprising change for a guy who is always typecast as a nerd.

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

Yet I wondered if this project is a form of personal therapy for Stiller to escape this typecasting.

That Ford's film does not directly deal with LGBT issues, but with his brother's murder by a white man who was never brought to trial is significant for a community so often typecast.

However after playing Farmer Ted the Geek in Sixteen Candles, Brian Johnson the nerd in The Breakfast Club and Gary Wallace, another geek in Weird Science, Anthony Michael Hall turned down the part of Cameron for fear of being typecast.

Granted, Lee has participated in two of the most profitable franchises of all time by doing so, but he's still typecast as a villain for life to an entire generation.

Rauch is endlessly grating in a role that seems custom made for an actress normally typecast as sweet (it's easy to imagine Kristen Bell faring better).

In an attempt to rebel against the typecasting, the late 1980s became something of a career slump for him.

When his quest for a mysterious orb attracts the attention of some blue - skinned intergalactic troublemakers, Quill throws in with a team of fellow outsiders including green - skinned warrior princess Gamora (Zoe Saldana), genetically enhanced raccoon Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper), comically literal man - mountain Drax (Dave Bautista) and a self - regenerating, semi-sentient walking tree named Groot (Vin Diesel, typecast again).

One challenges her reputation for no - frills sangfroid, while the other embeds that typecasting in its premise.

She asks: What is your secret for not being typecast?

Yet, the success proved to be on the decline for Crane, typecast after Hogan's Heroes, and with rumors swirling regarding his extracurricular activities, all of the doors that were opened to him are soon closed.

Johnson, typically may be typecast as an action hero on account of his imposingly hulking build and his ability to turn his face to stone (or rock, I guess, for those who know him from his wrestling days), but comedy is the mode in which he genuinely shines.

Key enlists in the help of Shelby (DJ Qualls in the typecast dork role), a church piano player with a talent for rhythm, to help with DJay's sound, and before long, the trio is mixing a worthy demo in a small, Styrofoam cup covered room of the former pimp's house.

Sean Bean (National Treasure) is strong and for the first time not typecast, but he and Erika Christensen (The Upside of Anger) spend far too much time offscreen.

Getting Sonic Youth to do the soundtrack for Olivier Assayas's cerebral neothriller demonlover was perfect typecasting - this beautifully splintered exploration of point - and - click behavior guided by malevolent remote control fits the group like a binding latex bodysuit.

While artists are normally typecast as the reason for delays, it appears more likely that in this case it is the writer.

RICHARD WIDMARK By Kent Jones Nominated for an Oscar for his debut performance as the giggling killer in Kiss of Death, he escaped typecasting and went on to become an icon of driven, intense postwar America masculinity in some of the key Westerns, noirs, and thrillers of the Fifties and Sixties.

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.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2018 In (di) visible, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX; Cameron Museum of Art, Wilmington, NC 2017 Translatio Imperii, Gutterbox Gallery, Raleigh, NC Digiscapes, Curated by Anthony Hamilton, Lump, Raleigh, NC Art on Paper, Curated by Emily Stamey, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC Objectifying Myself: Works by Women Artists from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT For Liberty and Justice for Some, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Shimmer, Light and Design Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC 2016 Seeping of a Ghost, Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia (solo) Musings on an Origin, Spectre Arts, Durham, NC Typecast, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC 2015 Heterotopias as Other, Nha San Collective, Hanoi, Vietnam (solo) 2014 The Orient, The Occident, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (solo) Summer Shuffle: Contemporary Art @ PAFA Remixed, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts The Mother Load, The Center for Creative Connections, Dallas Museum of Art, TX 2013 Contemporary Vietnamerican Art, Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VAThe Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA 2012 Alter / Altar: Meditations on the Past, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Art Center Collisions of Clamor and Calm, Galerie Quynh, HCMC, Vietnam Art HK 12, Hong Kong International Art Fair, with Galerie Quynh 2011 Bite Sized Monsters, Modern Eden, San Francisco, CA 2010 Twombly House / Ephemeral Museum, Portland, OR Outwin Boochever Portrait Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C 2009 Family Pictures, Root Division, San Francisco, CA 2008 In Transition Russia, Municipal Centre for Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia 2007 House of Adoration, Galerie Quynh Contemporary Art, HCMC, Vietnam (solo) House of Adoration, Ryllega Experimental Art Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam (solo) Small Works, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA 2006 Portrait of a Contemporary Family, First Street Gallery, Eureka, CA Portrait of a Family, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA National Juried Exhibition, Marin Art Center, Marin, CA Juror: Rene de Guzman Small Works Invitational, Gallery Dog, Eureka, CA Out of Context, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA Face Paint, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004 Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Supernatural, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Go WeFor Liberty and Justice for Some, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Shimmer, Light and Design Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC 2016 Seeping of a Ghost, Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia (solo) Musings on an Origin, Spectre Arts, Durham, NC Typecast, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC 2015 Heterotopias as Other, Nha San Collective, Hanoi, Vietnam (solo) 2014 The Orient, The Occident, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (solo) Summer Shuffle: Contemporary Art @ PAFA Remixed, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts The Mother Load, The Center for Creative Connections, Dallas Museum of Art, TX 2013 Contemporary Vietnamerican Art, Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VAThe Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA 2012 Alter / Altar: Meditations on the Past, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Art Center Collisions of Clamor and Calm, Galerie Quynh, HCMC, Vietnam Art HK 12, Hong Kong International Art Fair, with Galerie Quynh 2011 Bite Sized Monsters, Modern Eden, San Francisco, CA 2010 Twombly House / Ephemeral Museum, Portland, OR Outwin Boochever Portrait Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C 2009 Family Pictures, Root Division, San Francisco, CA 2008 In Transition Russia, Municipal Centre for Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia 2007 House of Adoration, Galerie Quynh Contemporary Art, HCMC, Vietnam (solo) House of Adoration, Ryllega Experimental Art Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam (solo) Small Works, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA 2006 Portrait of a Contemporary Family, First Street Gallery, Eureka, CA Portrait of a Family, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA National Juried Exhibition, Marin Art Center, Marin, CA Juror: Rene de Guzman Small Works Invitational, Gallery Dog, Eureka, CA Out of Context, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA Face Paint, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004 Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Supernatural, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Go Wefor Some, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Shimmer, Light and Design Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC 2016 Seeping of a Ghost, Gallery Bastejs, Riga, Latvia (solo) Musings on an Origin, Spectre Arts, Durham, NC Typecast, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC 2015 Heterotopias as Other, Nha San Collective, Hanoi, Vietnam (solo) 2014 The Orient, The Occident, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (solo) Summer Shuffle: Contemporary Art @ PAFA Remixed, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts The Mother Load, The Center for Creative Connections, Dallas Museum of Art, TX 2013 Contemporary Vietnamerican Art, Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VAThe Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA 2012 Alter / Altar: Meditations on the Past, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Art Center Collisions of Clamor and Calm, Galerie Quynh, HCMC, Vietnam Art HK 12, Hong Kong International Art Fair, with Galerie Quynh 2011 Bite Sized Monsters, Modern Eden, San Francisco, CA 2010 Twombly House / Ephemeral Museum, Portland, OR Outwin Boochever Portrait Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C 2009 Family Pictures, Root Division, San Francisco, CA 2008 In Transition Russia, Municipal Centre for Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia 2007 House of Adoration, Galerie Quynh Contemporary Art, HCMC, Vietnam (solo) House of Adoration, Ryllega Experimental Art Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam (solo) Small Works, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA 2006 Portrait of a Contemporary Family, First Street Gallery, Eureka, CA Portrait of a Family, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA National Juried Exhibition, Marin Art Center, Marin, CA Juror: Rene de Guzman Small Works Invitational, Gallery Dog, Eureka, CA Out of Context, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA Face Paint, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004 Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Supernatural, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Go Wefor Creative Connections, Dallas Museum of Art, TX 2013 Contemporary Vietnamerican Art, Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VAThe Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA 2012 Alter / Altar: Meditations on the Past, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Art Center Collisions of Clamor and Calm, Galerie Quynh, HCMC, Vietnam Art HK 12, Hong Kong International Art Fair, with Galerie Quynh 2011 Bite Sized Monsters, Modern Eden, San Francisco, CA 2010 Twombly House / Ephemeral Museum, Portland, OR Outwin Boochever Portrait Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C 2009 Family Pictures, Root Division, San Francisco, CA 2008 In Transition Russia, Municipal Centre for Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia 2007 House of Adoration, Galerie Quynh Contemporary Art, HCMC, Vietnam (solo) House of Adoration, Ryllega Experimental Art Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam (solo) Small Works, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA 2006 Portrait of a Contemporary Family, First Street Gallery, Eureka, CA Portrait of a Family, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA National Juried Exhibition, Marin Art Center, Marin, CA Juror: Rene de Guzman Small Works Invitational, Gallery Dog, Eureka, CA Out of Context, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA Face Paint, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004 Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Supernatural, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Go Wefor Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia 2007 House of Adoration, Galerie Quynh Contemporary Art, HCMC, Vietnam (solo) House of Adoration, Ryllega Experimental Art Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam (solo) Small Works, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA 2006 Portrait of a Contemporary Family, First Street Gallery, Eureka, CA Portrait of a Family, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA National Juried Exhibition, Marin Art Center, Marin, CA Juror: Rene de Guzman Small Works Invitational, Gallery Dog, Eureka, CA Out of Context, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA Face Paint, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004 Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Supernatural, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Go Wefor Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia 2007 House of Adoration, Galerie Quynh Contemporary Art, HCMC, Vietnam (solo) House of Adoration, Ryllega Experimental Art Gallery, Hanoi, Vietnam (solo) Small Works, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA 2006 Portrait of a Contemporary Family, First Street Gallery, Eureka, CA Portrait of a Family, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA National Juried Exhibition, Marin Art Center, Marin, CA Juror: Rene de Guzman Small Works Invitational, Gallery Dog, Eureka, CA Out of Context, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA Face Paint, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004 Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Supernatural, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Go West!

Normally, young people are those typecast as having no concern for what tomorrow brings, but at the moment we are the ones asking the government to think of the long - term outlook for Australia.