Sentences with phrase «younger than the actors»

(Keep in mind the real Packouz and Diveroli were nearly 10 years younger than the actors who portray them.

Not exact matches

The actor would be the youngest to take on the role (he's 26 years old), and he has only been in a handful of major films; both points which actually may be an asset rather than a handicap.

Jackie Chan delights but the kid felt much younger than previous actors playing the role, which was emphasized by him often watching Spongebob Squarepants in Chinese.

I'm a young model trying to become and actor but I'm more than that too I'm a young entrepreneur and inventor hoping to hit my big break soon I moved to ax a month ago from Chicago I am caring and loving

That alone would be reason to get excited, and Coogler makes good on the landmark project's potential by featuring a predominantly black ensemble, casting some of the best young actors around — from Chadwick Boseman (who proved his dramatic chops playing James Brown, Jackie Robinson, and Thurgood Marshall in recent years) to Michael B. Jordan (even more buff, and twice as charismatic, than he appeared in the director's two previous features, «Fruitvale Station» and «Creed»)-- as well as such legends as Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett.

Clint Eastwood won kudos from theater fans for tapping Broadway stars for his movie adaptation of 2014's «Jersey Boys,» but John Lloyd Young was a better singer and stage performer than actor in his performance as Frankie Valli.

There are few, if any, young actors other than her who could play the type of strong, capable, insightful heroine embodied by Katniss.

He nails the time period, the locations are perfect, the young actors are amazing (not over or underplaying anything), the cadence is on the money, and the adults are much more genuine and sincere than they have been in other W.A. films.

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.

Following minor roles in Blue Jasmine and Stoker, the young actor shows he's more than ready for center stage.

Lighter than some of Denis's work, but still extremely thoughtful, it offers a brisk walk through an awkward blue period in the life of a middle - aged French artist, Isabelle (Binoche), and the relationships with various men in her life, including an unreliable banker (Xavier Beauvois, delightfully obnoxious) and a sweet but immature younger actor (Nicolas Duvauchelle).

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).

Young actors now are better than ever.

Watching two of our best young actors go at it for almost two hours ought to be more rewarding than «Blue Valentine,» starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams as Dean and Cindy, a couple falling out and in and in and out of love.

He was nearly 20 years younger than his leading lady, and the same age then as Michael Cera is today, but in a film where few of the actors were playing their actual age, he was clearly the man for the role.

The mother's elective surgery put up against young Annie's struggles with weight and race (in the film's only mawkish moment, the child wishes she could rip her skin off), compared to Elizabeth's shockingly vulnerable scene in which she asks an actor lover (Dermot Mulroney) to critique her naked body and contrasted with Michelle's compensatory indiscretion with a boy less than half her age (the exceptional Jake Gyllenhaal).

Although a few years older than Lovelace was at the time, the actor looks much smaller and younger than Lovelace in the actual Deep Throat.

The mood is darker than previous Potter films, and it's nice to see the series growing up with the young trio of actors at its center.

I like Ed Harris too, he's always solid even in so - so flick, and Neeson is still very believable in action flicks, more so than some actors much younger than him!

The youngest best actor winner in history is Adrien Brody, who was 29 when he won for The Pianist — seven years older than Chalamet is now.

Paul Thomas Anderson for teaching me that it's ALL about the script and if you have the right actors directors don't have to do anything on set but be a fan, Lumet for his films and his book, a young directors» must read, Coppola for his courage in filmmaking, Steven Soderberg for refusing to ever be put in a box and pushing the form as far as he can, Kathryn Bigelow for giving masterclasses in action, James Cameron for Terminator 2 and prove big budget cinema can still be perfect cinema, Sean Penn for bringing his acting chops to directing, David Mamet for his scripts and his dialogue, Nolan for having more heart than most people seem to give him credit for (Memento, Rises, Inception and Interstellar all made me cry.)

Field, now sixty - nine years of age in an industry that has thrown actors away long before that turns in an amazing, complex performance as a woman who projects the loneliness of someone who has let life go by and as one who is falsely encouraged by a man way younger than she to fulfill the maxim of a TV motivational speaker.

The young actor more than holds his own opposite his veteran co-star in scenes that are both quietly tense and unexpectedly lovely.

Alden Ehrenreich resembles a young, somewhat graver Robert Wagner, though he's a better actor than the young Robert Wagner was.

Affleck's place as one of Hollywood's brightest talents took a series of wrong turns with some less than stellar film roles and before anyone could say «Gigli», one was more likely to hear criticism of the young actor rather than praise.

Dunst's performance here is hardly different than those she would portray in modern - day films for young adults, and although Coppola's dialogue does mostly avoid obvious modern catchphrases and slang, all of the actors speak in their own native dialects, with a cast blended with mostly American and British actors.

Arteta surrounds the two young stars with a stable of some of the best working character actors, including M. Emmet Walsh, Steve Buscemi, Fred Willard, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Long and Ray Liotta (used much better here than in Date Night).

The first two acts of The Maze Runner play out exactly as you'd expect them to, with all of the various details and requisite dynamics sketched in through the thin characterizations of the group's leader Alby (Aml Ameen, who along with Sangster are the only actors who manage to escape this unscathed), the rote and relentlessly irritating (for no reason other than drama) group villain Gally (Will Poulter, whose acclaim and popularity continues to baffle me as he turns in another dreadful performance), the trite cliche of the young innocent Chuck (Blake Cooper) and so on.

Chalamet more than held his own as the emotional, yearning core of Luca Guadagnino's Best Picture nominee, but displaying a growing ease with waging war will show us a new side of the talented young actor.

Says Cox: «Joe was offered the part of the young British gangster in The Hit, and then he saw Tim Roth in Made in Britain and said,» In all honesty, I can't play this part because there is a better actor than I.» And he went to Stephen Frears and said, «' Mr. Frears, you must hire Tim Roth.

Starring an exciting who's - who of young male acting talent (Tye Sheridan, Ezra Miller, Michael Angarano, Logan Miller, Thomas Mann, Keir Gilchrist, Johnny Simmons), most of the actors, especially Angarano, Ezra Miller and Billy Crudup as Zimbardo, are given individual moments to shine (albeit darkly — this is a very rigorous, unforgiving film), but it's never less than an ensemble.

Super-hot young actor Vince (Adrian Grenier) is super-hotter than ever; he has just blown off his young wife after a few days of marriage and the status quo reasserts itself.

The producers should also be commended for hiring inexperienced young actors in the lead and supporting roles rather than the typical seasoned stars of the high school / frat pack genre, who you would normally associate with films of this nature, and they by and large acquit themselves rather well.

But he has endured as an actor both younger and more accomplished than most people realize.

Young actors Hartley — his angelic face surrounded by soft curls — Gentile and Dorfman are dorkily endearing and more than equal to keeping up with Wilson's pace.

Of the many thrills that come from interviewing creative people — variously, unknown, ascendant and at the top of their game — there's also the under - discussed flipside: talking with, 1) vapid young «actors» (line - reciters is more like it) who have neither a sense of film history nor an appreciation for their occupational good fortune and, 2) perfectly genial writers and directors who are nonetheless so relentlessly on script — occasionally reciting entire career - checking passages verbatim from press notes no doubt spit - polished into significance by some friendly faction in the dark wings — that you realize they actually have less summary insight or thoughts about several months or years of their own work than you do after 90 to 120 minutes with it.

DVD special features are ample, anchored by a feature - length audio commentary track with director Alvart and producer Jeremy Bolt, in which the pair discuss Alvart's late - in - the - game, pre-production idea of depicting the effects of years of hyper - sleep via sloughing skin, as well as the special challenges involved for Foster in crafting a performance out of reacting to Quaid's disembodied voice, since more than half of his material was prerecorded, before the younger actor's scenes.

I'm not too suprised that it is so well written since it is by the great Steve Martin, who has a better grasp on comedy than any of the younger actors going around in comedies right now (I'd dare say that Martin and Bill Murray are the official choices for best working comedians).

You can often chart the rise of a young actor or actress by the on - screen company they keep, in which case British - born Imogen Poots is doing more than fine.

Rather than go with Aaron Taylor - Johnson or with someone of a similar star status, Vaughn picked Taron Egerton, a young actor with no agent and a single credit to his name, the TV show «Inspector Lewis.»

Of the younger actors, Michael Angarano makes for a sympathetic protagonist even when his character errs, Mary Elizabeth Winstead aptly plays an upperclassman dream girl, Steven Strait makes his conflicted Warren Peace more than a one - note villain, and Nicholas Braun shows off some fine comedic timing as lightly - glowing Zach.

The young actors surrounding him all work well but without much to do other than being thrown around or reacting to bangs and screams, they're just another selection of token horror victims.

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He's wearing a striped T - shirt under a dark blue shirt, light brown trousers which descend no further than mid-calf and boots laced high above the ankle he could easily have worn as a young actor in My Beautiful Laundrette.

Even just barely into their twenties, DiCaprio and Winslet had already displayed more substance and talent than most young actors given potentially star - making roles.

Higgins is usually played by some old codger (and all due respect to them), but the British actor Harry Hadden - Paton is younger than Lauren Ambrose, who plays Eliza Doolittle.

Amanda Bynes seems to be taking her career development very seriously, picking projects with more substance (and often more edge) than those of many young actors.

«Coogler makes good on the landmark project's potential by featuring a predominantly black ensemble, casting some of the best young actors around — from Chadwick Boseman (who proved his dramatic chops playing James Brown, Jackie Robinson, and Thurgood Marshall in recent years) to Michael B. Jordan (even more buff, and twice as charismatic, than he appeared in the director's two previous features, «Fruitvale Station» and «Creed»)-- as well as such legends as Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett.

Language: English Genre: Western MPAA rating: R Director: Clint Eastwood Actors: Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman Plot: An old gunman rejects retirement for one last job as he enlists the help of his old partner, and someone new, who is much younger than him.

Indeed, it may be even less engaging than similar scenes in the book, since the cast of young actors who play the soldiers are not up to the challenge of shouldering the weight of the story.