He amused the crowd with sardonic asides and actorly impersonations.
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She clearly doesn't suffer fools, and enjoys pricking actorly pretensions.
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And the reassuringly stock characters require no special actorly finesse to bring to life.
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And the reassuringly stock characters require no special actorly finesse to bring to life.
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"Man, I hate those two [bleep]ing words!" says Perry, with more than actorly passion.
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These are the kind of roles actorly dreams (and awards conversations) are made of — true stories!
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The result is a movie that, for all its operatic allusions and actorly expertise, feels dismayingly passionless.
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Jackson's Kong blended actorly mannerisms with digital detail, bringing the character into the age of digital cinema.
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This sounds close enough to a vampish and actorly display from 2012-era Gaga, but things have changed.
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The sneaking wisdom of "Present Laughter" lies in its suggestion that actorly exaggeration and inner honesty are not mutually exclusive.
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Lisette Oropesa was a splendid substitute, combining absolute technical assurance with a deft actorly portrayal of a naïve, self-involved royal.
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Woodard's performance gathers its astonishing force incrementally, in subtle choices and inflections that you might not even register as actorly decisions.
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It could have been more revealing to see them in an updated concept, where they might have looked a bit less actorly.
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There are no shocking twists, no grand speeches, no big actorly moments in Loving, which is in keeping with Nichols's previous spare films.
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It may be reasonable to suggest that, as she recovers, her position gradually changes, her punctured actorly narcissism fizzling with a long hiss.
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The actors in this scene really do appear to be coming apart in a way that seems both actorly and more real than acting.
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In a rare moment of actorly subtlety, Andrew Lincoln flashes a stunned, wounded look, as if wondering what could possibly be worth all this loss.
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The cast eschews actorly fireworks, starting with Ms. Gould, who herself has a mild form of cerebral palsy and does not shy from Bernie's difficult side.
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Her familiarity with the way the songs work to advance character and story in vivo naturally informs her in vitro style, which is actorly to begin with.
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While Mr. Nordey, who is alone onstage for the better part of two hours, spares no effort, a director other than himself might have curbed his actorly mannerisms.
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The spot was classic West (always ready to use his serious, actorly voice to poke fun at himself) and laid the foundation for his subsequent work on Family Guy.
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What follows is a classic actorly montage of Carell reading books, talking to a mirror, practicing, pacing, and pulling out pages of notebook paper in frustration as he prepares.
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" It's a taxing part — Thurman's most challenging in a decade, she said — that has forced her to use all of her actorly muscles "in a more total and protracted way.
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Physically, he may have seemed a bit off to play Kaufman (too lanky, too crowned with hair), but he took on the role with painstaking if seemingly typical actorly mimicry.
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This actorly excellence (and he really is excellent) is a kind of smoke screen — a gas attack, if you're feeling nasty — for the cruelty, the unsparing feel-badness of the play.
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After a run through at a Greenwich Village rehearsal space last week, I asked Mr. Hall whether he was afraid that appearing in a candy commercial might cheapen his actorly credibility.
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But if Ms. Houdyshell, 62, is best known on Broadway for her mothers — Deirdre in "The Humans," Ann in "Well," Gloria in "Fish in the Dark" — her actorly range is far wider.
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Mr. Doyle's production of Brecht's 1941 satire about the ascension of Adolf Hitler, written when the German playwright was in exile in Finland, is full of such enlivening moments of actorly glee.
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By the end of the season, Ruth has set aside her actorly self-seriousness and transformed into Zoya, a trash-talking Soviet who plays the villainous "heel" to Debbie's all-American "face," Liberty Belle.
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Garfield adds the kind of actorly choices for which he probably won the Tony — various honks and squeaks that pass for character, unmistakably gay, and, therefore constitute choices I imagine we are meant to respect.
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Fey told me that the "30 Rock" writers often threw random lines at Morgan which they thought would be funny to hear him say, and he'd deliver one bonkers interpretation after another, making bouquets of oddball actorly choices.
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Peter Debruge, Variety: DuVernay's choice of who should play Charles Wallace seems questionable at first — if only because McCabe's child-actorly way of playing to the camera makes the lip-smacking Welch's Grape Juice girls look naturalistic by comparison.
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Chazelle provides a wiser, more believable glimpse into the artist's struggle to maintain his or her integrity than he did in Whiplash, which, for all its actorly pyrotechnics, was eventually bogged down by its ultra-macho battle between pupil and teacher.
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As we explain on the latest episode of the Original Content podcast, the plot mostly serves as a springboard lots for jokes about actorly jealousy, Chekhov's gun and the fact that no one can remember that Frankenstein and his monster are two different people.
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The British actor Richard Armitage uses an impressive variety of actorly tools as he shifts perspective from Lale to Gita, the Slovakian prisoner Lale falls in love with; Baretski, Lale's commander; a few other prisoners; and some SS officers, including real-life figures like Rudolf Höss and the notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.
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Those first two movies were about the movies, with Janet Gaynor in 1937 as a naive North Dakota farm girl with actorly aspirations and Judy Garland in 213 as a singer who's been touring with a band, and Fredric March and James Mason played respective versions of the love interest, a leading man with a drinking problem.
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But I find that many educated people who pride themselves on being cultural completists (whether that means the whole of Shakespeare or the entirety of Harry Potter) haven't read the book, and indeed have a mild allergy to the idea: Perhaps because they assume it's just too childish, too Beatrix Potter or Brambly Hedge, or perhaps because they've seen a snatch of one of the adaptations and can't quite take seriously rabbits arguing with one another in actorly English accents.
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I didn't send her to any acting school. I didn't feel that it was necessary; she was a natural." Although the film required Le to age over 30 years and cast her opposite a number of accomplished American and Asian actors, the untrained actress received excellent reviews citing her sensitivity and actorly grace as Hayslip. In his review of the film, Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan described her as "nonprofessional but very capable.
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"'Time Stands Still' Broadway" playbillvault.com, accessed November 4, 2015 Charles Isherwood, The New York Times reviewer wrote, "the heart of Time Stands Still lies in the gently evolving relationship between Sarah and James, which develops troubling new ripples in each scene," and said Silverstone "brings warmth, actorly intelligence and delicate humor." The New York Daily News said Margulies "writes with intelligence and humor and creates dialogue that always hits the ear as real." Time Stands Still opened again on Broadway at the Cort Theatre beginning September 23, 2010, with the official opening on October 7.
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Order in Chaos, 04:48–05:09 Although William Hurt was considered for the role early in casting, Carter denies that he was seriously approached for the part and calls Henriksen their "first and last choice".Order in Chaos, 05:09–05:29 Producer John Peter Kousakis noted that Black was the constant throughout the series, as each season featured changes in tone and plot. Henriksen's performance was described as "the perfect actorly complement to Carter's thematic obsessions", earning nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Drama during each of the series' three seasons.
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DVD Talk's Randy Miller considered the character to have been "masterfully played" by Henriksen. Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, felt that Henriksen "seiz[ed] the part with a confidence that makes him immediately a more credible character" than Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, the lead roles in Millennium sister show The X-Files. Writing for Slant magazine, Keith Uhlich described Henriksen's portrayal of Black as "the perfect actorly complement to Carter's thematic obsessions", calling the character a "mortal survivalist pushing ever-forward, even in the face of the devil's idle temptations".
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Justice League drew mixed opinions from critics; Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that Affleck "looks like he'd rather be almost anywhere else but here." Affleck at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con In addition to his various Batman commitments, Affleck appeared in two other films in 2016. He starred as an autistic accountant in the action thriller The Accountant (2016), which was an unexpected commercial success. Peter Debruge of Variety felt Affleck's "boy-next-door" demeanor – "so normal and non- actorly that most of his performances feel like watching one of your buddies up on screen" – was "a terrific fit" for the role.
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"Noel's house party – Present Laughter", The Sunday Times, 27 June 1993, p. 8 (Features section) Brantley observed in The New York Times in 1995, "Yes, Coward was a terrible snob, and there is a certain smugness about Present Laughter that it's best not to examine too closely", but, "The sneaking wisdom of Present Laughter lies in its suggestion that actorly exaggeration and inner honesty are not mutually exclusive." In 1998 John Peter said that despite its period setting the play was timeless, and commented, "As in all the greatest comedies in the language, those of Shakespeare, Congreve and Wilde, the wit is both in the situations and the language."Peter, John.
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His most recent theatre role was Macbeth at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse (2018), opposite his wife Michelle Terry as Lady Macbeth. For his role as Macbeth, the Financial Times said: "Ready is a rare bird in that he has an actorly way with oratory, but instead of keeping us at a distance from his character, it clarifies nuances and levels and paradoxically allows us in deeper." Also appearing on television, Ready received notability in 2013 for his role in the television show Utopia. He is best-known for his role as the special adviser to Keeley Hawes’s Home Secretary in BBC series Bodyguard, and Kevin in BBC series Motherland.
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Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars and wrote, "A film like this is refreshing and startling in the way it cuts loose from formula and shows us confused lives we recognize ... This movie is closer to the truth: A lot depends on what happens to you, and then a lot depends on how you let it affect you". In his review for The New York Times, Stephen Holden praised Steve Zahn's performance: "It is hard to imagine what Riding in Cars With Boys would have been without Mr. Zahn's brilliantly nuanced and sympathetic portrayal of Ray, who goes through more changes than Beverly". USA Today gave the film three out of four stars and found that the "strength of the movie lies in these performances and in the situational humor, though ultimately the ending is disappointing, attempting to wrap up loose ends far too neatly". Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a "C+" rating, and wrote, "... every scene is bumpered with actorly business and production detail that says more about nostalgia for the pop culture of earlier American decades than about the hard socioeconomic truths of being a poor, young, undereducated parent".
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