Sentences with phrase «white actors from»

The decision to portray a family of Spaniards with white actors from the United Kingdom is a little troubling.

Not exact matches

«When we see malicious cyber activity, whether it be from the Kremlin or other malicious nation - state actors, we are going to push back,» said Rob Joyce, the White House cyber security coordinator.

Saturday Night Live is having a revival of popularity as its hard - hitting satire and perfectly casted actors — like Melissa McCarthy's hilarious portrayal of White House spokesman Sean Spicer and Alec Baldwin as Trump — speaks to the country's latest concerns about the various chaos and insanity emerging from Trump's administration.

Rupert Murdoch's suggestion that all the Egyptians he knows are white carries less weight than the claim from director Ridley Scott that using Middle Eastern actors would make fundraising difficult.

they all look like dudes from Huntington Beach... and listening to all the heavy British accented actors portenting to be pre AD middle easterners is hysterical... I believe the Burnetts are good people but they live in a make believe Christian world where things are literally black and white including it seems Lucifer...!

The actor is set to star in a film directed by veteran stunt coordinator Nick Powell (The Bourne Identity, X-Men: The Last Stand, Cinderella Man), which centers on Frank Walsh (Cage), a big game hunter for zoos who has booked passage on a Greek shipping freighter with a fresh haul of exotic and deadly animals from the Amazon, including a rare white jaguar.

Tiffani Theissen, Actress on television's White Collar, talks about the pros and cons of being a child actor and pressure on girls from an early age.

I'd wondered whether the Hollywood star Clint Eastwood, directing Hollywood actors Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon as the two leading characters, could possibly capture the essence, even the magic, of that final; of how it became such a unifying force for a society still in a fragile process of transition from white supremacy to majority rule, fear and hostility abounding.

Days after Trump declared war on the press, calling the media «the enemy of the people» and canceling his appearance at the upcoming White House Correspondents» Dinner, the White House press corps got a shot of support from one of America's most beloved actors: Tom Hanks.

Right now, it is clear that far from embracing a transparent White House administration and striking a conciliatory tone with the free press of the world, Donald Trump is doubling down on his attacks and is taking punitive measures against what he considers to be a hostile actor in the 2017 United States of America.

And while the 24 - year - old actor - model hit the red carpet in a dapper navy suit paired with crisp white leather Common Projects Achilles sneakers, Bieber kept things much more casual in a nearly $ 600 black logo sweatshirt from one of his favorite brands, Fear of God.

Jared Leto: The actor / musician stayed true to his rocker style wearing a printed white back - to - front tee with a light denim shirt and skinny tweed pants from Chanel's Pre-Fall 2014 collection.

In terms of new participants, we find material from stunt performer Isaac Hamon, Weta Workshop lead concept designer Nick Keller, Weta Workshop sculptors Kim Beaton and Jamie Beswarick, Weta Workshop concept artists Frank Victoria, Lindsey Crummett, Greg Tozer and Johnny Fraser - Allen, hair and makeup designer Peter Swords King, costume designers Ann Maskrey and Bob Buck, costumer Amy Craven, textile artist Kelly Olatunji, Weta Workshop technician Kim Docherty, special makeup and prosthetics supervisor Jason Docherty, prosthetic makeup artist Georgia Allen, master swordsmith Peter Lyon, additional costumer Emma Evans, lead creatures designer Andrew Baker, digital creature supervisor Simon Clutterbuck, textures technical supervisor Glen Sharah, senior shader TD Christopher George, VFX supervisor Chris White, texture artist Daniel Bennett, actor Manu Bennett, Hobbiton Movie Set and Farm Tour owner Russell Alexander, supervising art director Simon Bright, art director Brian Massey, set dresser Ben Whale, Middle - Earth Minstrel editor / author Bradford Lee Eden, sound designer Dave Whitehead, composer David Long, and musician Neil Finn.

In films from 1921 through 1952, white - maned American character actor Erville Alderson was most closely associated with D.W. Griffith in his early movie years.

In the Company of Character goes for 10 minutes, 23 seconds and offers info from Spielberg, Kennedy, Day - Lewis, Carter, Kushner, Field, Jones, and actors Gloria Reuben, Jeremy Strong, Joseph Cross, Joseph Gordon - Levitt, James Spader, Tim Blake Nelson, John Hawkes, David Straithairn, Hal Holbrook, Julie White, and Michael Stuhlbarg.

Praise has come from those more sensitive to the issue about how Coogler is able to craft his high price - tag tale without the need to put in a white male lead in a major role, with most speaking parts going to actors of different nationalities, but descendants of Africa.

He also hired an actor to play Francis in staged scenes filmed in the style of a black - and - white silent movie from the 1920s.

Black & White movie from 1949 which is not all that bad, it starts off like a educational film but turns into a great movie, or main actor Robert Lowery who plays Fireman Joe Martin undercover did a excellent job along with Edward Brophy.

There are also such younger actors as Ian Bannen, Edward Fox, Ian Charleson, and, from America, Martin Sheen as a reporter and Candice Bergen as the photographer Margaret Bourke - White.

The star - studded heist caper «Widows,» from director Steve McQueen and set to begin filming in Chicago this month, is looking to hire two sets of twin infants — one set biracial (unspecified), the other white — who are between the ages of 3 months and 6 months, according to a flyer posted by 4 Star Casting, which specializes in background actors, aka extras.

Gallic actor Gilles Lellouche, who savvy filmgoers will recognize from his work in Guillaume Canet's «Little White Lies,» confirmed this morning from Paris that he will join Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and «Girl with the -LSB-...]

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.

Wearing spiky white hair and borrowing what seem to be rejected one - liners from Arnold Schwarzenegger's Mr. Freeze «Batman» character, Short has one of those Robin Williams - in - «Toys» performances that makes you forget what you liked about the actor.

Actors leap in and out of virtual space, one minute occupying a snow globe tableau (white plastic snow; black Styrofoam trees), the next drifting down a river of pixels rendered like an enlarged detail from a Pop Art canvas.

No, the white characters in «Mudbound» are products of their time, and there's an honesty to that which sometimes supersedes choices that might otherwise have been more satisfying or dramatic — much as the casting favors actors whose weathered faces and strained expressions look as if they might have been lifted from Richard Avedon's «In the American West» series.

The actors aren't all well cast (I counted only about three I'd consider to be above average for their respective roles — Acker as Beatrice, Fillion (Waitress, White Noise 2) in the supporting role of Dogberry - the only time the audience I viewed the film with laughed at anything in the film that came from actual dialogue, rather than the injected slapstick and actors occasionally comical facial expressions, came from Fillion's delivery - and British actor Paul Meston in the minuscule part of Friar Francis) The rest often appear as though they're reciting lines without any sense of meaning in the words they are saying, and when one of those happens to be the male romantic lead, that's one hell of a liability.

When challenged over casting a white Australian and a white Brit as the leads in his Biblical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings, director Ridley Scott responded brusquely, «I can't mount a film of this budget... and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so - and - so from such - and - such... I'm just not going to get it financed.

She is meant to be a KENYAN queen with supernatural powers blessed from her African Village but yet they give the role to an AMERICAN actor who is half - WHITE.

An extensive selection of work from across the world is presented including the World Premieres of William English's HEATED GLOVES and THE HOST, in which director Miranda Pennell delves deeper into her past and her late parents» involvement with the Anglo Iranian Oil Company (BP); Ben Rivers» THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE EARTH IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS, the feature element of Ben's current Artangel installation at BBC White City; EVENT FOR A STAGE by Tacita Dean, a filmed presentation of her live theatrical happening in collaboration with actor Stephen Dillane at the 2014 Sydney Biennial; the European Premiere of Omer Fast's REMAINDER, a London - set thriller adapted from Tom McCarthy's acclaimed novel of the same name; the European Premiere of INVENTION which highlights the possibilities of camera movement and the development of artistic apparatus and Kevin Jerome Everson's PARK LANES, set in an American bowling alley over the course of a day.

Language: English Genre: Comedy / Action MPAA rating: R Director: John Landis Actors: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cab Calloway Plot: Jake Blues, fresh out of prison, and his brother Elwood are on a mission from God to reunite their band, raise enough money to save their former orphanage and survive run - ins from state police, white supremicists and one angry ex-girlfriend.

The black and white cinematography from Laszlo Kovacs (Easy Rider, Ghostbusters) is gorgeous, utilising deep focus to allow for some fantastic long takes where the actors can really work together and further detail and interest can happen within the frame.

Notably absent from the pool was any actor of color — the second year in a row that the Academy has elected an all - white group of nominees — and Todd Haynes» Carol, the acclaimed 1950s lesbian drama starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.

Both pro-lifers and pro-choicers are viewed with horror, and — just to make the movie a little more commercial — Solondz has divided the lead role among eight actors, ranging from a six - year - old black girl to a teenage white boy to Jennifer Jason Leigh.

In it, author Lois Lowry, actors Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Taylor Swift, Brenton Thwaites, Cameron Monaghan, Odeya Rush, Katie Holmes, and Emma Tremblay, producer Nikki Silver, screenwriters Robert B. Weide and Michael Mitnick, and director Phillip Noyce answer questions from a host and international journalists about the long journey to get the film made, the use of black and white, their experiences with the book, and shooting in South Africa.

Now, Schepisi has filmed The Eye of the Storm from a screenplay by former actor, Judy Morris, and while sticking to the overall trajectory of White's narrative, he has honed persuasive drama from the family tensions at its heart.

Best Picture: The Artist (Thomas Langmann, Producer) Actor in a Leading Role: Jean Dujardin (The Artist) Actress in a Leading Role: Viola Davis (The Help) Actor in a Supporting Role: Christopher Plummer (Beginners) Actress in a Supporting Role: Berenice Bejo (The Artist) Animated Feature Film: Rango (Gore Verbinski) Cinematography: The Tree of Life (Emmanuel Lubezki) Art Direction: War Horse (Rick Carter, Lee Sandales) Costume Design: Hugo (Sandy Powell) Directing: Michael Hazanavicious (The Artist) Documentary Feature: Hell and Back Again (Dafung Dennis & Mike Lerner) Documentary Short: Saving Face (Daniel Junge & Sharmeen Obaid - Chinoy) Film Editing: The Descendants (Kevin Tent) Foreign Language Film: A Separation (Iran)(Asghar Farhadi) Makeup: The Iron Lady (Mark Coulier & J. Roy Helland) Music (Original Score): The Artist (Ludovic Bource) Music (Original Song): «Man or Muppet» From The Muppets (Bret McKenzie) Short Film (Animated): La Luna (Enrico Casarosa) Short Film (Live): Raju (Max Zahle & Stefan Gieren) Sound Editing: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Ren Klyce) Sound Mixing: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce & Bo Persson) Visual Effects: Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White & Daniel Barrett) Writing (Adapted Screenplay): The Descendants (Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash) Writing (Original Screenplay): Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)

But none of that should distract from the overall trend in Hollywood to cast white actors in non-white roles — even when it's done unintentionally.

Gods of Egypt is the crazy epic action - adventure movie from Alex Proyas involving lots of white actors playing mythological Egyptian gods, and the first few trailers haven't been that great as the footage looks insane.

With the exception of Mexican director Alejandro Gonzàlez Iñàrritu who is nominated for his work on The Revenant, all of the major nominees ranging from the actors to directors and writers are white.

From the incredible roster of actors on hand — Chadwick Boseman, Jordan, Dania Gurira, Letitia Wright, Daniel Kaluuya — and the two token white males, Andy Serkis and Martin Freeman — and the clever marketing by Disney, this has been expected for some months now.

«Hellion offers a startling and memorable portrait of adolescent life in downscale East Texas suburbia, along with a white - hot breakthrough performance from teenage actor Josh Wiggins.»

Meanwhile, the voice of Apu, Hank Azaria, has offered to step down from the role, given that part of the contention is with a white actor doing an exaggerated accent, arguably, for comedic effect.

However, «White House Down» does benefit from some great chemistry between Tatum and Foxx, and the supporting cast is excellent, even if many of the actors are wasted in throwaway roles.

The victim of withering reviews, Pan has also suffered from bad press after Wright cast the white actor Rooney Mara in the role of Tiger Lily, traditionally a Native American character.

Sweet Country is the sort of film that a white actor would likely be uncomfortable participating in; as PTSD sufferer Harry March, Ewen Leslie (TV's Top of the Lake) is thoroughly loathsome in a role that others might have tried to ring sympathy from.

In the first known movie version, from 1903, the aging, potbellied Tom is played by a white actor in blackface, and black actors playing slaves dance merrily at the beginning of each scene.

Denis Lavant, the ugly / beautiful primal force of Les amants du Pont - Neuf and Beau Travail, is the committed actor, delivered from set to set in a long white limousine dressing room, the arts equivalent to the traveling office of Cronenberg's Cosmopolis (I think there is a great double feature to be found here).

In a famous scene from the film The Littlest Rebel, Uncle Billy, played by the black actor Bill «Bojangles» Robinson, dances on a flight of stairs, the white girl imitating his virtuoso footsteps.

The detail from a laboratory worktop with shining white tiles and blackish - grey grouting, shown in artful lighting, opens up a visual space where, amongst other things, a microscope, a pipette and a cold - light source with a two - arm light guide become actors under the artist's vision control and mise - en - scène.

In Life of Imitation, 2009, for example — the artist's contribution to the Fifty - Third Venice Biennale — three male actors of Chinese, Malay, and Indian descent, respectively, reenact an infamous scene from a Douglas Sirk melodrama in which a mixed - race daughter proclaims to her black mother, «I'm white.