We're told he's getting $22 million to play the lead male character, Frank ... Emily's only getting $9 mil to play the lead female, Lily.
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If you've written the kind of movie that needs Beanie Feldstein to play the lead, then man, you really need Beanie Feldstein to play the lead.
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He asked Baryshnikov if he wanted to play the lead.
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It's definitely a huge challenge to play the lead in an ensemble.
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I remember reading scripts just thinking, Oh, I couldn't possibly play the lead.
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I [told them] I wanted to know who was going to play the lead.
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Later this year, she'll embark on the Barbie movie, in which she'll play the lead.
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I am absolutely thrilled to have Mel and Vince agree to play the lead roles.
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When it comes to comedy, O'Doherty is lethal — why, then, can't she play the lead?
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He'll play the lead role, Garry Essendine, who has been described as Coward's alter ego.
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Katherine Langford, the star of "13 Reasons Why," will play the lead role on "Cursed."
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Bullock and NASS say he didn't play the lead in rallying opposition to Levin's bill.
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She was hired by Weinstein to play the lead role in Emma when she was 22.
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Ansel Elgort is in negotiations to play the lead role of Theodore Decker in Warner Bros.
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Newcomer Maddie Baillio, from Texas, has been tapped to play the lead role of Tracy Turnblad.
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Most WTF Moment Chris Pine may play the lead, but Billy Howle is the Outlaw King MVP.
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He is scheduled to play the lead of "Macbeth" in three Met shows in September and October.
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When Moore scored on a layup with 8:113 to play, the lead was increased to 14.
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Lise Lindstrom will play the valkyrie, Brünnhilde, and Stefan Vinke will play the lead role of Siegfried.
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When Jonas Valanciunas put in his own rebound with two minutes to play, the lead was 13.
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Erivo, who is a black British actor, will play the lead in a biopic of the iconic abolitionist.
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Kristen Stewart, however, has thought of a more roundabout way to get a woman to play the lead.
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Unlike with The Mindy Project, you can't easily swap out a white actress to play the lead role.
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A once-important actor who had written a play about Lord Byron and wanted to play the lead.
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In the game, players play the "lead" in a heist movie where they are preparing to rob a bank.
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He's also set to play the lead role in another highly anticipated novel adaptation, The Goldfinch, out in 2019.
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"Asian actors want to play the lead, the romantic character, the hero, just like everyone else," Tan told CNN.
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Jim Parsons, a star of the CBS sitcom ''The Big Bang Theory,'' has signed on to play the lead.
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They also cast a Korean actress, 13-year-old Ahn Seo-hyun, to play the lead role of Mija.
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Depp would play the lead role of a French politician under house arrest for sexually assaulting a hotel maid.
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Jim Parsons, a star of the CBS sitcom "The Big Bang Theory," has signed on to play the lead.
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The same Peter Strzok who was then tapped to play the lead role in the phony Trump Russia collusion investigation.
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Over the years, Sacha Baron Cohen and Jonah Hill were attached to play the lead character, the jeweler Howard Ratner.
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But this is the first show though where she gets to play the lead and it couldn't be a better choice.
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The show's creators are reportedly hoping to find a lesbian actress to play the lead role, though that has not been confirmed.
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A rising film star, Heard agreed to play the lead in the motion picture entitled London Fields based on Martin Amis's novel.
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The Prince of Persia drew criticism for casting the actor instead of a performer of Iranian descent to play the lead Dastan.
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The BBC has made it official: Jodie Whittaker will be the 13th actor to play the lead role in 'Doctor Who' full-time.
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The musical was also known for rotating in famous faces to play the lead roles, with Bareilles even stepping in a few times.
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But Mr. Scatamacchia quickly realized that he was a good fit to play the lead — one of the most verbose roles in theater.
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In a twist, the official that Mr. Trump had nominated to the Fed to play the lead role on regulatory issues was sidelined.
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In the days leading up to the premiere of "Eurydice," Matthew Aucoin's operatic adaptation of Sarah Ruhl's play, the lead soprano couldn't sing.
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At the same time, they were also the only films that allowed Black characters to play the lead role and even be the hero.
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Paula Hawkins, author of Girl On The Train, thinks Emily Blunt is too attractive to play the lead, Rachel, in the book's film adaptation.
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Jonez was chosen to play the lead role after sending in a video audition in response to an open casting call for the part.
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I play the lead guitar on the first verse, but Lockett redid it on the second verse because I didn't do it as well.
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The CBS reboot has cast Jay Hernandez to play the lead — an ex-Navy SEAL who has moved onto work as a private investigator.
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The baritone Etienne Dupuis will play the lead, as a "fallen rock star" named Pink, and the orchestra will be conducted by Alain Trudel.
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" Unlike Mr. Cagney in films like "The Public Enemy" and "White Heat," though, Mr. Edda does not play the lead role in "Narcos: Mexico.
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The BBC announced the coming reveal of the next actor to play the lead role in its flagship sci-fi series Doctor Who via Twitter.
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Lee will play the lead, Yumi, a self-described "Brentwood Barbie" who reconnects with her "embarrassing" Korean roots to become a powerful Korean-American woman.
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Since the musical made headlines on the NY Post, CNBC, and more, it looks like they've found someone to play the lead role: Shkreli himself.
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What is clear is that President Vladimir Putin wants to play the lead role in trying to broker a settlement, initially with Turkey and Iran.
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Reuters reported in March that Clariant and Huntsman previously ended merger talks late last year over a disagreement about who would play the lead role.
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Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe are both slated to star in The Mummy, while Johnny Depp will play the lead role in The Invisible Man.
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He will play the lead in ABC's "Designated Survivor," about a low-level cabinet member who becomes president after a catastrophic attack on the capitol.
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" Most of these were supporting turns, but Aiello did play the lead role of Jack Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald&aposs assassin, in 1992&aposs "Ruby.
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Hammer will play the lead in Young Jean Lee's Straight White Men, directed by Anna D. Shapiro at the Helen Hayes Theatre in New York City.
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Larson, 27, will play the lead in "Victoria Woodhull" about the 1872 presidential candidate in a film by Amazon Studios, according to online entertainment magazine Deadline.com.
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ARROYO: There&aposs a lot of blowback because they now want to recast Buffy as a black actress, have a black actress play the lead role.
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In fact, when Hall was tapped to play the lead role in Kinky Boots, he told Entertainment Tonight that he had turned to Swift for reassurance.
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It only slowly dawned on Ms. Parker, she said, that HBO was expecting her to play the lead in whatever show she developed about marriage midlife.
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An example of the ideal cast member would be the talented Constance Wu, who he had in mind to play the lead character, Rachel, from the beginning.
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Reuters reported in March that Clariant and Huntsman had previously ended tentative merger talks late last year over a disagreement about who would play the lead role.
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Just like Jesus Christ himself, John Legend enjoyed a Last Supper of sorts to prepare to play the lead role in Sunday's Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert.
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Focus Features is moving forward with On the Basis of Sex, a biopic of Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, with Felicity Jones set to play the lead.
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The Heat could not get closer than eight points, and when Lowry knocked down a 32-foot 3-pointer with 4:23 to play, the lead was 226.
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Churchill advanced the idea for a film about the young Napoleon, saying that Chaplin should direct and play the lead, and that he, Churchill, would write the script.
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"Interior Chinatown" explores Asian-American stereotypes, something that captivated the novelist and TV writer as he thought about stars, supporting characters and who gets to play the lead.
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"Call Me By Your Name" is hailed as a heartbreaking gay romance, but some are puzzled that the filmmakers cast two straight actors to play the lead roles.
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Bryan Fuller, who has since departed from the show, has said for years that he wants an African-American woman to play the lead in his *Star Trek *project.
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His performance impressed those gathered enough that Jones quickly demanded his lawyers draw up a contract for Smith to play the lead in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
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Brittany Runs a Marathon gave actress Jillian Bell a huge opportunity: to play the lead character in a film that's both funny and more dramatic than her usual fare.
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Ms. Macdonald, 26, had been plucked from obscurity to play the lead role in "Patti Cake$," a drama about a rapper that was about to face the Cannes critics.
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He would have Bing Crosby play the lead, but there would be a man behind Bing Crosby who knew all the answers and would tell people what to do.
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The upcoming film's been dogged by criticisms of whitewashing ever since it was announced Scarlett Johansson would play the lead role of Major Motoko Kusanagi — a clearly very Japanese character.
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Olivia Wilde recently shared she was "too sophisticated" to play the lead female role in The Wolf of Wall Street, despite being almost 10 years younger than lead Leonardo DiCaprio.
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On Wednesday, the network confirmed that news at the Television Critics Association's annual press event, announcing that Ali has signed on to play the lead, should the series get the greenlight.
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The tenor Paul Appleby sometimes seemed unsure of how to play the lead role of Belmonte, a character given over to somewhat wooden statements of ardor and ineffective displays of heroism.
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Mr. Holland will play the lead role, starring alongside Mr. Rylance as Iago, at the open-air reconstruction of the 16th-century theater where Shakespeare's works were performed during his lifetime.
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During our conversation, Garnett revealed that years ago Spike Lee wanted him to play the lead role in "He Got Game," and shared the real superstitions he had as a player.
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Tunney really shaved her hair to play edgy store clerk Deb, and as a result she had to don a blond wig to play the lead in her next film, The Craft.
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Only time will tell who'll play the lead, but in our dream version, Krysten Ritter would do double duty as Jessica Jones and the less supernatural but no less kick-ass Sophia.
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But he has told senators he continues to question if a sitting president can be indicted on criminal charges because Congress should play the lead role in impeaching and removing a president.
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It's locked down everyone from Don Cheadle to Steven Spielberg to Tyra Banks to Liam Hemsworth, who on Friday Quibi announced he'll play the lead in a thriller series for the... network?
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And the show was a dream come true for me, getting to play the lead role, getting to act my face off and make people laugh, and getting to write and direct.
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But the directors are quick say that the movie probably wouldn&apost have been possible without Sacha Baron Cohen and Jonah Hill both, at different times, being attached to play the lead.
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Ms. Brewer, 33, and her understudy, Edward Barbanell, 40, are thought to be the only known performers with Down syndrome to play the lead in an Off Broadway or Broadway theater production.
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Ms. Matthews was supposed to play the lead female role in "Purple Rain," the semi-autobiographical Prince film that was a box-office hit in 1984, but abandoned the project before filming began.
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As you know, Weissmann, big-time Democratic donor, tapped by Robert Mueller to play the lead role in the ongoing Russia witch hunt, New York Times called Weissmann&aposs Mueller&aposs pit bull.
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The main characters will be voiced by Law & Order's Benjamin Bratt, Mozart in the Jungle's Gael García Bernal, Weeds' Renée Victor, and young newcomer Anthony Gonzales, who will play the lead character, Miguel.
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LOS ANGELES — The Dark Knight himself, Christian Bale, is in talks to play the lead in a Dick Cheney biopic that Paramount Pictures and Plan B Entertainment hope to begin shooting in September.
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Casting for the franchise has not been discussed in the meetings, according to the people briefed on them, although producers hope Daniel Craig will play the lead for at least one more chapter.
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Diop's approach included casting Seck's sister Sané to play the lead role of Ada, who is directly impacted by the lives lost to the treacheries of migration — a fitting example of art imitating life.
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The Roundabout Theater Company, a nonprofit that operates three Broadway theaters, said Tuesday that Ms. Lane would play the lead role, Madame Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya, in a revival of the Chekhov classic this fall.
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I think all of us, when we first start off, think we should play the lead — I wanted to be the lead in "The King and I." I should be the lead in "Dreamgirls"!
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Today, it revealed some key casting: Star Trek star John Cho will play the lead character Spike Siegel, a bounty hunter who travels the solar system with his partner Jet Black (played by Mustafa Shakir).
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It has also allowed the series to attract top-flight talent to its main role, because if an actor of Eccleston's caliber wants to play the lead for 13 episodes only, he can do just that.
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The actress, 32, shared a screenshot from the famous 1989 Disney film of Ariel and Ursula on Instagram Monday in which she tagged Disney Studios and expressed her desire to play the lead role opposite Meryl Streep.
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Ironically, the same things we love about Pope have also come back to bite Shonda Rhimes, who dreamt up the show and insisted a Black actress play the lead, in the form of criticism of the character.
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But that's exactly what Israeli actress Shira Haas had to do to play the lead in Unorthodox, a new Netflix limited series about a young woman's journey to find a life outside her ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.
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His dream now: to play the lead, Odette, in a major company's production of "Swan Lake," not as female but as gender fluid, which he defines as identifying as male in some contexts and female in others.
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It was a longtime dream of Johnny Depp to play the lead role of Barnabas Collins in a film adaptation of the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, which put out more than 1,200 episodes from 1966 to 1971.
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It was a longtime dream of Johnny Depp to play the lead role of Barnabas Collins in a film adaptation of the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, which put out more than 1,200 episodes from 93 to 1971.
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The Quantico star was the very first South Asian actress to win a People's Choice Awards and to play the lead role in a TV series, but it appears the industry has yet to appropriately recognize her accomplishments.
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Actress Julia Garner of The Americans and Netflix's series Ozark is in negotiations to play the lead in an upcoming fictional feature film about a day in the life of one of Harvey Weinstein's assistants, according to Deadline.
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"Twilight" star Stewart, along with rising British actresses Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska, will play the lead roles in the latest movie reboot of the 1970s crime caper, to be directed by Elizabeth Banks, Sony Pictures said on Thursday.
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"I earnestly ask all businesses, who play a big role in our economy that investment and innovation be boosted boldly once more so that you will be able to play the lead part in job creation and economic recovery," Hwang said.
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"Having the opportunity to play the lead in something, and it's not boring, there was a really interesting concept that you just read the tagline and you're like, 'Oh, that's cool,'" said Payne of what else attracted him to the role.
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It has nothing to do with Arabica coffee or the price of macaroons, but if you're a fan of the darkness and haven't watched Amy Adams play the lead on HBO, you might want to read Gillian Flynn's "Sharp Objects" first.
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Parker made her debut in 1976's The Innocents at the age of 11 (she'd play the lead role in Annie years later), while Simon's 1983 premiere of Brighton Beach Memoirs gave Broderick his first role (and first of two Tonys).
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WM: An amazing thing about puppeteers that I don't think everyone understands is that they can play the lead on a character, a big part on a lead character, and then in the next shot, they're someone else's left hand.
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Akshay Kumar, 49, who is one of Bollywood's most bankable actors and also a celebrity ambassador for the government's Clean India campaign, said he chose to play the lead in "Toilet" because it highlighted the problems so many women face.
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Paul McQue, who is from Scotland, said he had already seen "Hamilton" once on Broadway, three times in Chicago and nine times in London, but had not yet seen Mr. Miranda play the lead role, so he came to San Juan.
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He will play the lead role and since he has to die multiple times to reset the day, and since he has experience pretending to do that in net if he's touched ever so slightly, he should do well in this role.
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In practical terms, Tara and Heath's absences are a result of Masterson taking a break from The Walking Dead after having a baby, and Corey Hawkins, who plays Heath, stepping away to play the lead role in Fox's new reboot of 24.
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Bateman is also branching out into directing, which means that he can not only play the lead of Ozark — perpetually swamped money launderer Marty Byrde — but also direct four of its 10 episodes, just as Cranston directed a handful of Breaking Bad episodes.
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Jean-Claude Van Johnson will cast the Belgian action star as a famous actor who comes out of retirement to play the lead in a high-kicking version of Huckleberry Finn, a cover that allows him to continue his work as a private security contractor.
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After buying the rights to Isaac Bashevis Singer's story, it took her another decade to turn this film into a reality—she was told the movie was too Jewish, not commercial enough, and that she was too old and too famous to play the lead.
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And as Luna himself told Metro in December, while casting a man with a Mexican accent to play the lead in a blockbuster movie might be rare, it also just "speaks to the world we live in" — which hopefully means it won't be rare for long.
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The Disney-owned superhero factory, which plans to unleash "Ragnarok" in November 2017, ended by announcing that the Oscar-winning actress Brie Larson would play the lead in "Captain Marvel," which is planned for 2019 and will become the first Marvel movie anchored by a woman.
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Before John Legend dons a crown of thorns to play the lead in "Jesus Christ Superstar" on Sunday, he'll help pay tribute to that musical's composer, Andrew Lloyd Webber, whose shows "The Phantom of the Opera" and "School of Rock" continue to pack houses on Broadway.
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Tired of being defined more by her offscreen aura than by her acting — hello, she was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe — Ms. Sevigny produced "Lizzie" so that she could, for the first time in her 50-film career, play the lead part.
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He was gorgeous as the Viper on Game of Thrones, and he was glorious in Netflix's Narcos, and the second I found out he would play the lead on this show, I was thrilled for him to have taken yet another big step in his journey to world domination.
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In addition to running Assai Management Consulting, a company he started in 2013 after leaving his job as director of the project management office at the Port Authority, he is a professional opera singer, currently preparing to play the lead baritone in Puccini's "Turandot" at New Jersey's Bergen Performing Arts Center.
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But Kavanaugh has also stood by his stated views that question whether a sitting US president can be indicted on criminal charges, instead saying Congress should play the lead role in impeaching and removing a president -- and also enact a law ensuring a president can be indicted after leaving office.
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He may have spent nine seasons starring in the hit CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother," but Mr. Radnor — in town from Los Angeles to play the lead in Richard Greenberg's new comedy "The Babylon Line" at Lincoln Center Theater — has yet to learn to be comfortable having his picture taken.
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First came the news that she would be playing the lead in Nick Cassavetes' reboot of the 1989 Patrick Swayze cult absurdity Road House, and then it was announced that producer/director Peter Berg (Hancock, Friday Night Lights) had signed Rousey to play the lead in Mile 22, as a CIA agent trying to escape Jakarta with the help of an Indonesian cop.
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Not only does her father Miguel, 42, play the lead role in the Chicago production of Hamilton, but her mother Kelly has shared the incredible story of Adelaide's short life via her popular blog Inchstones and through her work with the Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (CURE), which raises funds for research into a cure for the devastating illness.
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And so he thought a variety of regulations may be needed, and therefore justified, to protect persons and valuable institutions of civil society — what Edmund Burke (and Roger was nothing if not a Burkean) called "the little platoons" that should play the lead role in promoting health, education and welfare, and in forming new generations in the virtues people need to thrive and contribute to society.
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He reads from his own, so while the media panics over Trump&aposs refusal to play the lead in their movie, he stars in his own, building up the military, demanding NATO pay for their defense, toying with Putin&aposs pipeline, Army Ukraine, it&aposs like Sergeant Rock versus The Three Stooges, but if Trump is Putin&aposs stooge, he&aposs doing a total Curly to their Moe.
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Whenever pop strays into the shlock zone, it too gets meta: Abba's "Thank You For the Music" and "Super Trouper" (named after a type of spotlight), Billy Joel's "I Write the Songs" and Robbie Williams's "Let Me Entertain You".... There could be no more perfect sign of Gaga's total merger with American showbiz than the news that she's going to play the lead in A Star Is Born —the third remake of this Hollywood-about-Hollywood movie since the 1937 original.
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This time, he has chosen a more circumspect approach, telling Kosinski's story primarily from the perspectives of various characters who encounter him: Ian, Peter Sellers's driver, who is tasked with persuading Kosinski to allow his boss to play the lead role in "Being There"; Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin's daughter, who met Kosinski when they were briefly neighbors in Princeton; Kosinski's first wife, here a petroleum-jelly heiress "cast out of the Social Register after her recent marriage to a Polish parvenu"; and a dominatrix who goes by the moniker Anna Karenina.
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