Sentences with phrase «typecast villains»

Could any other daytime telecast have a more typecast villain than Mr. Fuld?

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

Not exact matches

Discouraged by the opinion he should be typecast as a villain (when he's an All - American hero), Tommy considers giving up on an acting career.

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.

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.

I am fed up with the gorgeous and talented Bryce Dallas Howard always playing villains now and being typecast after her roles in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, The Help and 50/50.

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.

«The Name is Durant with Larry Drake» (15:56, HD) allows Drake to discuss his memorable villain, how he won the role, and how it figured into career typecasting, among other topics.

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.

In our conversation, he talks about his early days in theater; being fired from his first film, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise since it was the notorious flop Heaven's Gate; making Platoon, which turned out to be his first Oscar nomination; trying to avoid typecasting as a villain; and being in a mega-hit like Spider - Man.

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.

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