Sentences with phrase «well as character actors»

The same goes for supporting cast members like Foster, as well as character actors Jesse Plemons and Rory Cochrane, who play two of Joe's longtime fellow officers.

Not exact matches

He joins Chris Evans (Human Torch / Captain America), Peter Dinklage (X-Men's Bolivar Trask and a character in «Infinity War»), and actor Josh Brolin who plays the villain in not only «Infinity War,» but this summer's «Deadpool 2» as well.

In a throwaway line intended to highlight his perpetually boyish good looks, his agent Rick Yorn refers to DiCaprio as a character actor in a leading man's body.

Hoping to avoid the possibility of a white actor taking on the role of the Chinese warrior, Molnar wrote: «Casting a Caucasian actor as a character of colour, regardless of reason has a direct, harmful impact on not only the movie itself, but the audience, as well as POC members of the acting community.»

Now a transient place full of hipsters, bond traders, and actors, as well as actors and hipsters who are the children of bond traders, all searching for an «authentic» place to replace the Midwestern suburbs and rural towns they came to Brooklyn to escape, Brooklyn for me will always be Flatbush Avenue and Rudy Giuliani, Bernie (Goetz, not Madoff), and Ed Koch, block parties, radios murmuring Yankees games on back porches (all of us too poor to afford air conditioning, which kept us outside in that great urbanist semi-public space), the blackout of 1977 and the blizzard of 1995, Mickey Rivers and Bucky Dent, not to mention the wild cast of characters appearing in the Daily News, a paper that practically taught me to read.

The play's cast of community performers and professional actor, Duncan Rennie - who plays Jesus - are currently working on improvised scenes as well as writing parts for their own characters.

Monikers of the actors who voiced these memorable characters rose as well: Kristen (Kristen Bell, who voiced Anna) gained 22 percent, Santino (Santino Fontana, who voiced Hans) gained 11 percent, and Jonathan (Jonathan Groff, who voiced Kristoff) gained 7 percent.

Middendorf plays her good girl character with aplomb while Hughes doesn't bug me nearly as much as other child actors.

As one of the best known French actors working today, Vincent Cassel has a penchant for playing compelling characters driven by a deeper desire.

The actor proved his dedication to the role by staying in character throughout filming, which not only impressed Russell and Eklund, but will most likely surprise viewers as well.

Actors in this film have lent their vocal talents to other characters as well.

The actors are all quite good, shading their characters quite nicely, with Paltrow especially notable as she provides some much - needed warmth to the proceedings.

This is the character actor's debut as a writer and director, and it's a good beginning as Buscemi is able to flesh out real people in an engaging character study, of characters who are not the inventions of Hollywood.

There's little doubt that Date Night fares best in its opening half hour, as the palpable chemistry between Carell and Fey is undoubtedly heightened by the ease with which the actors slip into their respective characters.

A 33 - year - old actor and comic best known for his long - running role as Maurice in the Britcom «The IT Crowd,» Ayoade has an evident gift for the kind of slightly offbeat comedy that's about the differences between a character's self - perception and the way the world sees him.

The British actor, best known as Loki in the «Thor» and «Avengers» series, disappears into the character's skinny body and twangy voice.

Though seemingly born with a battered bulldog countenance and a rattly voice best suited to such lines as «We don't like you kind around these parts, stranger,» tough - guy character actor Kenneth Tobey was originally groomed for gormless leading man roles when he came to Hollywood in 1949.

Best known as Steve, the boyishly charming nice - guy bartender (and the perfect complement to his onscreen romantic partner, snappish Miranda Hobbes) in HBO's blockbuster original series Sex and the City, the slightly diminutive, raven - haired American character actor David Eigenberg was born in Manhasset, NY, on May 17, 1964.

John Doe is a man who balances two well - respected careers — as a musician, Doe was the co-founder, songwriter, vocalist, and bassist of one of America's most acclaimed alternative rock bands, X, and while he continues to write and record new material, he has also carved out a reputation as a busy and well - regarded character actor.

i hate every character as well as every actor in this movie, except for the one who died.

Buscemi is an old hand at stringy curmudgeons, but Del is a subtler and more complex creation than most of them, and the actor seizes the chance to muddy the waters: the character is a genuinely well - meaning mentor to Charley, as well as, professionally speaking, a treacherous schlub.

Among his Wakandan countrymen and retinue are a number of remarkably fleshed - out characters with complex relationships, and a veritable who's who of black actors, including Letitia Wright as his sister Shuri; Lupita Nyong» o as his ex-flame Nakia; Danai Gurira as Okoye, the head of his all - women bodyguard; and Daniel Kaluuya as his best friend W'Kabi.

Bryan Cranston understands his role as Walter White so well that at times it's easy to forget that we are merely watching an actor portray a character.

Giving a beautifully understated performance that made the character seem sympathetic and tragic as much as dangerous and reprehensible, he won his third Best Supporting Actor award.

Paul Bettany's crime boss Dryden Vos might be the first major player in a «Star Wars» movie to make no impression at all, but the actor was probably doing the best he could under the circumstances; he replaced Michael Kenneth Williams, who was not available for reshoots and was originally cast as a CGI character, so he was probably playing somebody who had to be rewritten on the fly without damaging the surrounding narrative architecture.

Game scenes were well shot and entertaining and the acting was superb... although Kurt Russell is the obvious standout, every player fits the mould of their character - as the DVD says, the director looked for «hockey players who could act», not actors who could skate.

His truthful, menacing character cut through the main characters» self - deception, and Shannon's off - kilter delivery won him glowing notices from critics, as well as a nomination for Best Supporting Actor from the Academy.

Even as characters are tweaked and actors bring a slightly different energy than his other movies, The Best of Me is still the same mushy Nicholas Sparks adaptation with drama so overwrought audience members can't help but laugh — at least until they're sniffling during the closing credits.

You know, in a show with such a good actor as the central character, it's tough to find any humanity in him.

Squibb is nominated for her role as Kate Grant, wife of Best Actor nominee Bruce Dern's character in Alexander Payne's Nebraska.

A number of other lead actor contenders this year have portrayed real - life characters as well, and there's quite a wide range.

to son (and unrepentant ginger), Tim (Domnhall Gleeson — son of the great character actor Brendan Gleeson, but best known as a Weasley boy from Harry Potter).

An actor is not only going to have to sell the more otherworldly aspects of the hero, but the vulnerable, failed and broken surgeon side of the character as well, something we believe Mortensen could pull off.

The ensemble of Japanese actors do great work as well, especially Yôsuke Kubozuka as their guide and Tadanobu Asano whose character challenges Fr.

Surrounding our two leads are a wonderful assortment of great character actors: George Kennedy, Murray Hamilton, Mike Kellin, a young James Brolin, Hurd Hatfield, William Marshall, an early appearance by the great William Hickey (Prizzi's Honor), as well as the big screen debut of Sally Kellerman.

With an excellent cast of character actors in all of the roles, as well as terrific costumes, sets and special effects, no expense was spared in getting the look and feel of the eerie world the Addams» inhabit just right.

Ramírez and Bryce Dallas Howard (as Kenny's devoted girlfriend Kay) don't have as much to work with, but they're both good in their respective roles, and the same can be said for the treasure trove of character actors (like Bruce Greenwood, Craig T. Nelson, Stacy Keach and Bill Camp) who pop up along the way.

As good as the script and action can be, it's the actors who make it come alive, and there's a strong lineup of supporting talent although Rosamund Pike, who plays Oliver's sister, never gets in on the laughs and her character mainly exists to define Gary and SteveAs good as the script and action can be, it's the actors who make it come alive, and there's a strong lineup of supporting talent although Rosamund Pike, who plays Oliver's sister, never gets in on the laughs and her character mainly exists to define Gary and Steveas the script and action can be, it's the actors who make it come alive, and there's a strong lineup of supporting talent although Rosamund Pike, who plays Oliver's sister, never gets in on the laughs and her character mainly exists to define Gary and Steven.

Christian Bale delivered a knockout performance as the drug - addict - fallen - star brother to Wahlberg's character, which earned him a well - deserved Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

The rest of the cast are uniformly great, from Campbell Scott as the lead to a rich supporting cast of character actors - including a well written woman's role (shock!)

That's not to say the performance wasn't great and that the film wasn't one of the best of the year — it just wasn't the type of film that garners awards for its actors as it was far more concerned with docudrama authenticity than it was with giving its actors full - bore characters to develop.

Barely eighteen months on, we're getting part two, which promises bigger and more spectacular action, and some new blood in the shape of top - notch character actors Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jeffrey Wright, as well as rising star Sam Claflin.

All three actors do their best, and the milieu (Pearce and Smulders» characters are fitness instructors, with Corrigan as a schlubby millionaire client) is fresh and appealing, but the movie is largely stillborn.

But the real winner here is Spall, the ever great character actor, (best known for Mr. Turner and Secrets and Lies), as the romantic lead.

Willis, however, isn't the only actor attached; as the roster fills, expect to see several returning characters as well as new ones.

This is a movie that places mood and character above all else, and while that might not be everyone's cup of tea, Michaël R. Roskam's «The Drop» is a well - paced and expertly acted film that serves as a fitting end to one actor's career and the exciting emergence of another.

Whishaw's voice is still perfect for Paddington, while new characters this time round include a pompous judge (Tom Conti), prison cook Nuckles (that's how he spells it and he's played by Brendan Gleeson) and, best of all, Hugh Grant as the villainous has - been actor Phoenix Buchanan.

It's good news for those of us who have been fans of the character actor for years and were a little wary that he'd maybe try to jump into his own Taken - style franchise or something as a result of his boost in popularity.

Whoever thought the excellent Irish actor Ciarán Hinds (The Eclipse) was believable as the elder Worthington must be stark raving mad, and Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton) was the older, wheelchair - bound version of Csokas» character isn't much better.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.