Sentences with phrase «work as a character actor»

He was known mainly for his stellar work as a character actor, and later, as a bonafide lead and Oscar winner.

Not exact matches

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.

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

Too muted and pensive to work as a thriller, too withdrawn to be a character study, and too cold to evoke any sympathy, the film is instead a dull and alienating exercise in how to take a strong actor and interesting premise and mostly waste them.

You find out more about that process is the 5:29 «Bringing the Characters to Life,» which includes interviews with the animation staff, as they talk about how they worked with their own reference videos to figure out how the «actors» move.

Before it gets to that point, however, Ed tv comes off as a fairly affable comedy that benefits substantially from McConaughey's charismatic turn as the central character - with the actor's strong work heightened by an impressive roster of supporting players (including Woody Harrelson, Martin Landau, and Dennis Hopper).

Some things that probably factor into the industry's disagreement: Peter Jackson adapted books fifty years old and respected as great literature, the Potter books were being written alongside the first movies; Lord of the Rings centered on adult characters and played to a wider audience with PG - 13 ratings, the first Potter movies were PG, skewed younger, and starred kids (though anyone can see the films matured and so did the fans, many already wrote the series off); finally, where Jackson provided one distinct vision and a cast of respected performers, Potter had a rotating director roster (all of them secondary to Rowling) and limited opportunities for its accomplished actors, giving the brunt of the work to the three kids and spectacle.

An Emmy winner for his work on the various Sid Caesar programs, he entered films as a character actor in 1959.

Working mostly in comedies, Ruffalo appeared in The Last Big Thing (1996) and alongside comic character actor stalwarts Steve Zahn and Paul Giamatti in Safe Men (1998); he also starred as an artist with love problems in the romantic comedy Life / Drawing (1999).

Throughout the»90s Gleason continued to work steadily as a character actor appearing in films as diverse as National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1, Running Cool, Maniac Cop 3, and Nothing to Lose.

From 1963's Goldstein onward, Darden worked in films as a character actor and sometimes writer / director.

This major alteration to the vampire anatomy, while potentially offensive to purists, actually works for me, as it allows the actors to convey their characters» personalities physically, and quite articulately.

Hamilton and D'Abo are both understated and terrific here, as are the character actors who served as Baumbach's rep company during the first phase of his career: Eigeman, unsmiling and hostile; the hilarious Jacott, all self - aware neuroses; and obligatory»90s indie mascot Eric Stoltz as Chet, the bartender who's still working on his thesis and maintaining an encyclopedic knowledge of classes and campus events.

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

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.

Because this movie started out as a play with the same cast, all four actors have worked over every facet of their characters so carefully that each gesture and intonation has weight — nothing is an accident or a throwaway.

This man has spent the last two decades of his life working as one of the industry's most in - demand character actors, but he started out as a member of the Seattle Repertory Theatre.

As one of the least showy character actors in Hollywood, it's often easy to overlook the work of Chris Cooper.

Bogart and Henreid were contract players, as were character actors Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet (both of whom Bogart worked with on «The Maltese Falcon») and Rains.

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.

As Howard, the great John Goodman creates one of the most chilling screen personalities in recent memory; having spent the last decade energising support parts in Argo, The Artist, Flight and Inside Llewellyn Davis, the actor gets to dominate a film with subtle, multi-tiered character work.

Egoyan, as expected, has peppered Adoration with relentlessly morose figures whose behavior and motivations often stretch the very limits of credibility, though the superb work of the various actors (Speedman, especially) inevitably proves effective in infusing the broadly - drawn characters with a small degree of authenticity.

But it works as an intriguingly offbeat character study while offering Nicolas Cage a chance to show why he used to be considered one of the top actors of his generation.

The two actors also find the emotional truths of their characters, compelling us to pay attention and care about them as they work to connect with each other.

The selection of Vincent Gallo as the embittered title character is Coppola's bravest stroke for this new film, since the mercurial New York actor has earned himself a reputation of being difficult to work with and consequently hasn't landed many primo acting gigs.

It's such a middling entry in a well - developed genre that one must cast about for elements that worked well enough to justify making yet another movie about it, and using some of our favorite character actors — Mark Strong, Jamie Bell and Abbie Cornish — as they did.

There's little doubt such attributes, coupled with Will Smith's typically engrossing work, goes a long way towards compensating for the ineffectiveness of the younger Smith's performance, as the fledgling actor's less - than - competent turn ensures that Kitai simply never becomes the dynamic, charismatic lead character that one might've expected (and hoped for).

In addition to Isaac, Chastain and Oyelow, other actors deserve recognition for their work here: Albert Brooks is Abel's consigliore, in a style reminiscent of his Drive character; Alessandro Nivola is the most frightening type of gangster — the quiet, powerful kind; Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full of Grace) is outstanding in her only scene; Elyes Gabel captures the frustrated driver looking for hope; Peter Gerety is spot on as the Teamsters lead; and Jerry Adler is a most unusual Jewish business man.

Actors often talk of how their own lives influence their work, but it sounds as if Gerwig takes as much from her characters as she gives to them.

Working with cameras on a floating rig in choppy waters and braving the elements, with actors dieting for months to appear as depleted as their characters, Jolie completed a successful first day of a location shoot that promises to be rigorous and uniquely challenging.

Not every casting choice works in the film though as Michael Cera really didn't fit the character of a famous hotshot actor, but thankfully it doesn't deter much from the story.

An erudite, Jewish Ivy League graduate — and closeted gay man — who spoke nine languages and was a regular guest on a popular TV quiz show, Berg was an incredibly multifaceted character far removed from Rudd's recent efforts that would allow him to stretch as an actor, as he worked with language coaches and tried to tap into a man who wouldn't let himself be known.

As an astounding Shakespearean director and actor, he is also proven to make bigger budget films work for him and tell interesting narratives for characters we didn't think we'd care about i.e. Thor and his live - action remake of Cinderella for Disney.

Where Watiti comes into his own is his work with the actors: he peels back self - serious images and pretentious lore of returning characters (Tom Hiddleston's Loki being one) and reframes them as lightly, lovably imbecilic.

English character actor Timothy Spall plays the painter over the last 25 years of his life as his work began to grow more abstract.

Ben Mendelsohn may be among the most gifted characters actor working today, and in «Starred Up» he gives one of his greatest performances as O'Connell's father.

Kaling and Grandy have also worked hard to make this an ensemble show, with a democratic distribution of laugh lines through the entire cast, which includes comic Fortune Feimster as Ruby and veteran character actor Robert Costanzo.

Actor Jessie Usher, who has appeared in «Survivor's Remorse» and «When the Game Stands Tall,» among other work, will appear in the movie as the son of Will Smith's character from the original movie, Captain Steven Hiller, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Gordon - Levitt also shines as Blake, once again proving to be one of the best young actors working today; his character also comes to play a big part in the story.

He also worked closely with the actor playing his character as a teenager, the better to harmonize their performances.

Through this experience, I recognized what an extraordinary set of personality traits it takes to be able to succeed in that world, and I was really drawn to the character work we could build with actors as a result.»

For the most part throughout his career, Sam Elliott has thrived as a character actor, best known for supporting work in films such as «Tombstone», «The Big Lebowski» and «Hulk» — and for countless TV roles in the 70s and 80s.

John Carroll Lynch may not be instantly recognizable to most audiences based on his name alone but when they get a look at him, they can immediately place him as one of the most reliable character actors working today.

USA Today Character actor Joseph Ruskin (Prizzi's Honor, The Magnificent Seven) has passed away The Wire as we move into the dumping ground of each film year (that'd be new January releases, not platformed holdovers) Joe Reid looks back at ten January releases that didn't suck Vanity Fair funny Proust questionnaire with T Bone Burnett whose latest movie music work I can't stop listening to.

It does boast a memorable villain, of sorts, in the form of Irving, played by veteran character actor Timothy Spall as the picture of self - impressed conviction, who has a ridiculous answer for every charge against his work.

It's understandable why actors gravitated to her work as the subtlety is intriguing and the character is fascinating.

But at least scripters Tony Gilroy and William Blake Heron give her a character to work with, which is more than be said for other talented actors filling out the ensemble, such as Julia Stiles (merely marking time as the baddies» resident computer expert) and especially Clive Owen, who is completely wasted as a barely - seen and - heard evil operative.

Finally, however, Bullz - Eye was able to pin down a time to chat with Miller about his work in the new teen comedy, «Senior Skip Day,» while also discussing his turns in «10 Things I Hate About You,» his famous HBO «One Night Stand,» his status as a character actor, and his intake of narcotics (or lack thereof) during the «80s.

One of American cinema's finest character actors, Dern, whose career took off in the Seventies, proved too eccentric, too unconventional to work as a mainstream leading man in commercial fare, but here he's wonderfully worthy of this auspicious lineage.

The opportunity to work with the different characters that are being played broadens what you can do as an actor.