Sentences with phrase «white actors who»

For instance: Are we more likely to be moved by familiar, white actors who pretend than by strangers who have experienced real struggle?

The sister, Anne, played by the singer Zendaya, falls in love with Phillip Carlyle (Zac Efron), a wealthy white actor who invests in Barnum's show for reasons the film is completely unable to explain.

Not exact matches

If a client can't afford a white foreigner, he or she is advised to choose black actors instead who have «a very open personality, yet are quite cheap.»

I strongly believe the selection of an actor for the «Devil / Satan» role who is African = American and resembles President Obama is a deliberate and obvious racial and political attempt to promote fear in those people who are looking for excuses to rationalize their own bigotry and promote their white supremacist ideologies.

Well, after talking to just about every white male actor who's ever been in a movie, it appears Marvel has made their choice for their highly anticipated next big...

Woody Harrelson is an award - winning actor who has appeared in films including White Men Can't Jump, Kingpin, Natural Born Killers and The People vs. Larry Flynt, as well as Meat Free Monday's own film One Day a Week.

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.

As the Trump administration charts its course with new actors at the helm, such as Pompeo or Bolton, it is important to remember that neither personnel changes nor who occupies the White House necessarily produce radical pendulum swings in foreign policy.

One of the dozens of women who have accused Bill Cosby of sexually assault broke down in tears as she recalled being forced to swallow a «large white pill» to «relax» before, she says, the actor molested her in 1996.

Ivanka, who reportedly made climate change her signature issue during the transition and who is now on the White House staff, met with actor Leonardo DiCaprio about climate change before the inauguration.

Actor Parvin Dabas arrived with wife Preeti Jhangiani who looked lovely in a green and white outfit.

Actor Dennis Rodman who is a black enjoys being in company of white women.

The 38 - year - old star, who was first romantically linked to the actor at the end of last year, spoke candidly about her love life and why she has never wanted a big, white wedding.

Serial fans know Pierre Watkin as the actor who originated the role of bombastic Daily Planet editor Perry White in Columbia's two Superman chapter plays of the late»40s.

Also impressive is director Wenders» use of his and Lisa Rinzler's shoots in Assisi, black - and - white, deliberately faded and silent film, showing an actor playing St. Francis who at the key point in his life heard God tell him to restore a dilapidated church — which I believe he did thinking that God's will is more important than his father's rage at the saint's alleged throwing away his money.

When we go into a film of this sort, we expect to see White People Behaving Badly, but to view an African - American who shows such antagonism toward his own people, it becomes a more startling sight — and it must be tougher for an actor to take on such a part.

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.

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.

Will a person who happens to be white ever be able to make a criticism of a film or actor that is not white and not be a racist?

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.

New York has Sachs, a down - to - earth city scion who tackled love and apartment - hunting in the must - see Love Is Strange and returns to examine the budding friendship between two Brooklyn kids: an introvert with art skills and the safety net of white privilege, and an audacious aspiring actor being pushed out of the neighborhood by gentrification.

While at TIFF for Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House, the actor explained «The thrillers, that was all a pure accident,» said Neeson.

Director and co-writer Scott Derrickson (who previously wrote the unnecessary sequel Urban Legends: Final Cut) has been lucky enough to work with some gifted actors, especially Jennifer Carpenter (White Chicks) in the titular role.

This was the most insulting thing of all as fan who is a woman of color because if I were white or if Johnny Storm was played by a white actor, stupid comments like.

Titled THE GIFTED, the Bryan Singer - directed pilot will deal with two parents (actors Stephen Moyer and Amy Acker) who learn that their children (Natalie Alyn Lind and Percy Hynes White) have extraordinary abilities.

But posters for its Italian release have marginalized Chiwetel Ejiofor, who stars as the protagonist, in favor of large head shots of white actors Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender.

Director Alex Garland's Annihilation recently came under fire for being the latest example of a movie casting white actors as characters who were people of color in the source material.

Roberts Blossom, a veteran character actor who played the old, white - bearded next - door neighbor who befriends young Macaulay Culkin in the hit movie «Home Alone,» has died.

As a longtime character actor who has shined among ensemble casts (think: Juno's deadpan dad or Bob, a laid off white collar worker, in two of director Jason Reitman's Oscar - bait films), Whiplash co-star J.K. Simmons appreciated receiving the Spotlight Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Pitt, who produced the film, has a minor role in «12 Years a Slave» and Fassbender is in a supporting role, and both are White, while Black actor Ejiofor appears in virtually every scene in the film.

The African American actor who played Dr. Kananga / Mr Big in «Live and Let Die,» believes «James Bond was established by Ian Fleming as a white character,» and should be «played by white actors»

Vanity Fair had routinely come under fire for seemingly disregarding the Hollywood «It» potential of actors like Gabourey Sidibe, who was nominated for an Oscar in 2010, when the «Hollywood Issue» featured only white actresses.

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.

As Chris, a young black photographer who gets sucked into a racial nightmare — a «sunken place» — when he visits the family of his white girlfriend (Allison Williams), the British actor takes audiences to places that are honest and true and, for many, difficult and discomfiting.

Featuring music by Jack White and interviews with Serpico's associates and admirers — including writer Luc Sante and actor - filmmaker John Turturro — this is an inspiring, all - access portrait of a courageous man who refused to betray his ideals.

The other hot contender for Best Picture was the horror thriller GET OUT which earned Daniel Kaluuya the BEST ACTOR AWARD as the African - American boyfriend of a rich white girlfriend who goes home to meet her parents one weekend at their affluent estate, and discovers that his «having the creeps» is not unfounded.

Portman is surrounded by a good supporting cast, including Greta Gerwig as White House Social Secretary Nancy Tuckerman, Crudup as the reporter who knows all along that he will never be permitted to print most of his interview and Danish actor Caspar Phillipson, who bears an amazing resemblance to the late President Kennedy.

Particularly, given the actors she's employed such as Melanie Laurent and Niels Arestrup, and Christian Berger, the Oscar nominated DP (The White Ribbon), who supposedly is uing a new natural light technique for the film.

The «Snow White and the Huntsman» actress and the «Social Network» actor - who...

That's the superficial starting point of The Gift, the directorial debut of actor Joel Edgerton, who takes the cuckoo - in - the - nest thriller template — which became ubiquitous in the early»90s with films like Pacific Heights, Unlawful Entry, Single White Female and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle — and, by introducing psychological depth and a streak of social conscience, fashions an intriguing morality tale.

Portman emphasized the need for more on - screen representation and called out the industry's habit of dividing pools of actors according to who's white and who isn't:

At the film's recent press day, Costner talked about the appeal of playing Coach White, Niki Caro's directing style, the bond that developed between all the actors during filming, the pivotal role a coach can play in a young person's life, the Jim White - type coaches who influenced Costner's life in a positive way, what he learned about Latino culture growing up in Visalia, why he waits for projects to come along that he can really respond to irrespective of genre, the biggest cultural gap he experienced on this film, and how sports movies allow us to address other issues within the wider society.

Following his performance in Denis Villeneuve's acclaimed drug cartel thriller Sicario, British actor Daniel Kaluuya (who sharp - eyed viewers will remember as a one time Harry Enfield / Paul Whitehouse regular) delivers another eye - catching performance as black photographer Chris, who is nervous about his upcoming meet and greet with white girlfriend Rose's (Allison Williams) parents.

It also seems an odd choice for everyone to speak Japanese except the dogs who not only all speak English but are also all portrayed by white actors.

Trends of the Year: Sex addiction (Don Jon, Thanks for Sharing), shipwrecks (Gravity, All Is Lost), the skin trade (Lovelace, The Look of Love), taking the White House hostage (Olympus Has Fallen, White House Down), the apocalypse as comedy (This Is the End, The World's End), slow cartoon protagonists who nonetheless win the big race (Turbo, Planes), likable character actors who are revealed to be villains in the final reel (Star Trek Into Darkness, White House Down, The Lone Ranger)

The legendary actor and pioneering film director received a lead actor nomination for 1958's «The Defiant Ones,» which revolved around two escaped prisoners — one black, one white (Tony Curtis)-- who are shackled together.

The Tony and Emmy Award - winning actor and the voice of «Star Wars»» Darth Vader earned a lead actor nomination reprising his Broadway triumph in 1970's «The Great White Hope» as a black boxer who keeps winning over white opponents in the years prior to World War I. Three years ago, he earned an honorary Academy Award for «his legacy of consistent excellence and uncommon versatility.&rWhite Hope» as a black boxer who keeps winning over white opponents in the years prior to World War I. Three years ago, he earned an honorary Academy Award for «his legacy of consistent excellence and uncommon versatility.&rwhite opponents in the years prior to World War I. Three years ago, he earned an honorary Academy Award for «his legacy of consistent excellence and uncommon versatility.»

The group makes it over the wall, but not before two of the series» prominent characters of color — played by Mekhi Phifer and Maggie Q, who are each given virtually no dialogue as a parting gift — are gunned down, likely to make room for the new influx of white actors we're about to meet (Daniel Dae Kim shows up for a second too, another minority bit - part designed to create a false sense of diversity).

We're particularly excited for an emerging actor - director pairing in Vivian Bang and Daryl Wein, who made one of Seventh Row's Sundance favourites, White Rabbit.