Sentences with phrase «young character actors»

Momentum is achieved through a series of intersecting interactions, excellent characterizations, and good young character actors — sometimes it's fun just to listen and observe their conversations and observations.

Toby Kebbell is one of the most fun young character actors working today.

Not exact matches

In The Man Who Walked Around the World, Glaswegian character actor Robert Carlyle strides down a rugged mountain path, telling the story of young John Walker's rise from farm boy to shopkeeper to whisky magnate in a single, uninterrupted and utterly captivating 6 1/2 minute take.

We watched all three of these young actors literally grow up on screen, but more importantly become comfortable in their own skin and really inhabit the characters that will most likely define them for the rest of their lives — or at the very least another 10 or 15 years.

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.

Donat was the recipient of a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of the title character, and the film features the debut performance of a young Garson.

A dozen or more excellent character actors keep things fairly interesting, and the cast includes everyone from the Young Actor of the Moment, Timothee Chalamet (as a marginal member of Blocker's gang), to Rory Cochrane as Blocker's longtime friend, a ruined man with too much blood on his hands.

Doctor Strange is one of the few mainstream comic characters that could be played by an actor of any age, and yes, Marvel will probably go relatively young for the part, but this is a role that could benefit being brought to life by a more experienced actor.

Devine's manic energy wears thin pretty fast, but his character is redeemed by the actor's relentless self - deprecation — characters are constantly telling Mike that he's human garbage compared to his god - like younger brother, and every shot across the bow earns a laugh.

Since then Joseph Gordon - Levitt seems to have played every single character an actor can play from a gay pimp to a younger Bruce Willis.

Javier Bardem was attached to star in the movies and the second season of the television series (the first season would have been flashbacks and a younger actor would play Bardem's character, Roland Deschain).

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.

Edison Chen and Shawn Yue portray the younger Ming and Yan, just as they had done briefly in the first film, and while they are fine in their own way, this film really belongs to Hong Kong's veteran character actors Anthony Wong (The Medallion, Cat and Mouse), Eric Tsang, and Francis Ng.

The cover story, «Grade B — But Choice,» is devoted to an obscure 1934 musical called «Young and Beautiful,» featuring «budding starlets, grade - A character actors, grade - B musical numbers, a pair of vaudevillians, a look behind the scenes of Hollywood, bogus appearances by Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton and a script by Dore Schary» [later famous as a producer of films such as «Crossfire,» «Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House,» «They Live By Night» and «The Red Badge of Courage»].

The show will star «Up in the Air» actress Vera Farmiga as Mrs. Bates (her first name is Norma Louise), while «Charlie and the Chocolate Factory» actor Freddie Highmore will play the young version of Hitchcock's memorably spooky character.

He's an exceptionally fine young actor who brings a visceral power to his character's tribulations.

Writing / directing duo Chris Lofing and Travis Cluff introduce the viewers to characters (who simply just carry the actor's names) that reflect what these two young men think high school students might act or sound like.

At the film's press day, Collider spoke to actress Katee Sackhoff (who plays the mother of the siblings in flashbacks) for this exclusive interview about what attracted her to Oculus, being a fan of director Mike Flanagan's work, how she approached this character, her concerns about having to be intensely physical with the younger actors, and the technical challenges of the show.

One of the benefits of Cuaron's direction, his expertise with younger actors, means that the constant determination and occasional fury exhibited by the characters, especially Harry and Hermione, are completely convincing.

By going with an actress four years older than the character in the book, Lionsgate has locked itself into a cast packed with very late teens or actors in their early twenties as compared to if they'd gone with someone like 14 - year - old Chloe Moretz who would have called for a far younger Peeta and Gale.

The 29 - year - old beauty stars alongside the pair in the forthcoming sci - fi movie — which sees Bruce play an older version of foot soldier Joseph Simmons and Gordon - Levitt portray the younger version of the character — and she was fascinated watching the 31 - year - old actor impersonate his older colleague.

It had been known that the filmmakers wanted to skew younger with the cast of the film, but fans love when these actors reprise their roles as their characters.

Though the minor characters are full - blown clichés, director Adam Robitel (The Taking of Deborah Logan) and his young actors create a compelling opening.

The Princess Of France picks up where Viola left off, switching out Twelfth Night for Love's Labor Lost but otherwise retaining the post-modern conceit of following young Argentine actors so caught up in their Shakespearean pursuits that they start to seem like (modern, autonomous) doppelgängers of the Bard's characters.

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.

That very immobility gives the movie a chance to slow down and concentrate on the relationship among these three young people, whom we've watched grow up as both actors and characters since the first Potter movie in 2001.

The film's cast took home the Best Ensemble Cast prize, with Mahershala Ali winning Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Juan, a father - figure of sorts to the film's lead character Chiron, a young African - American male coming to terms with his sexual orientation.

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).

Let's hope he doesn't screw up portraying the younger version of an established character like a certain actor might have, cough * Hayden Christensen * cough.

It wasn't great but I always remember him playing several different characters at such a young age and even then I knew he was a quality actor.

And while the aging actor and character admits it's not as easy as it used to be, fans can still expect a whole lot of action as Indy tackles a new challenge with a young tag - a-long (Shia La Beouf) and runs into an old romantic interest (Karen Allen).

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.

The young actor has been featured in the trailers since the very first Bob Ross - themed teaser last November, but his character has not been given a name.

Having a penchant for melancholic characters, Sofia Coppola creates the perfectly endearing, yet unlikely duo when she subjects the aging, washed - up actor, Bob Harris, and snobby, educated young cynic, Charlotte, to the culture shock of Tokyo.

Baker, cast as a Stetsoned, suit - wearing gunman at the Organization's beck and call, confirms his standing as one of the most dangerously dynamic young character players in the business; the monumental violence of the man, so disturbingly out of directorial control in his Walking Tall Savior - with - a-big-stick role, is here mesmerizingly contained by both director and actor, whose most lethal gesture is to smile.

Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail plays the youngest Salim with similar skill, while each actor responsible for either character at various ages confidently progresses the character to the present.

The film stars Alden Ehrenreich as Solo and Donald Glover as a Lando Calrissian, both actors playing younger versions of the characters made famous by the original «Star Wars» trilogy.

Regardless, the effect of limiting the film to the Dunst - Hartnett storyline is twofold: first, we get to enjoy many many many shots of pretty young actors being pretty, walking in slow motion, rolling around in the grass, etc; second, none of the other characters ever mean anything to us.

Over 3,000 actors auditioned to play Han Solo in Disney's upcoming Star Wars spin - off film focusing on the iconic character's younger years, but it was 26 - year - old Alden Ehrenreich — a rising star, but not a household name yet — who bagged the massive role in July 2016.

During an interview with Digital Spy, Lost and Colony actor Josh Holloway has revealed that he was originally cast as Remy LeBeau, a.k.a. the fan favourite mutant Gambit, in 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, only to find himself replaced by Taylor Kitsch when the studio wanted to go younger with the character.

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.

Last month, we reported that up - and - coming actor Alden Ehrenreich was the frontrunner to play a young Han Solo in a Star Wars standalone film revolving around the character.

The make - up department makes efforts to have the actors look as close to the characters they portray as possible, e.g. Nigel Thatch as Malcolm X, Ledisi as singer Mahalia Jackson, Andre Holland as Andrew Young, and Stephan James as John Lewis.

The most honest moment, however, is saved for «The Anonymous Art of the Character Actor,» which focuses on McMillan, Young, and Page, who urges people not to go to the bathroom in the middle of the film lest they miss her.

While all of that subtext makes «Starred Up» fascinating, it is primarily a character piece for the young Mr. O'Connell, an actor who reminds one of Tom Hardy in «Bronson» or the early work of Ryan Gosling in his fearlessness.

When asked about Harry Potter characters in Fantastic Beasts, actor Dan Fogler teased appearances by their «younger counterparts.»

Main character Chiron is played by three different actors over the course of the film: Alex R. Hibbert plays his younger self, Ashton Sanders plays his teenage years and Trevante Rhodes plays Chiron in his adult prime.

Amblin Entertainment returns to present a Bad Robot production of Super 8, directed by filmmaker J.J. Abrams («Lost», Mission: Impossible III, Star Trek), starring a cast of young kids and talented character actors, including Kyle Chandler and Elle Fanning.

Great casting and veteran direction puts the young actors in a position to successfully portray the iconic characters without feeling generic.

The actors give as much as the script allows, with Charlize Theron (Young Adult) as crafty Meredith Vickers, Michael Fassbender (Shame) as sinister David, and Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) as the daydreaming scientist definitely help flesh out characters at a time when others are left to flap about with little to do.