#david-dastmalchian

#david-dastmalchian

They said, you are here, like the Blacks and the Hispanics, to play the bad guys. However, he ultimately proved them wrong when he was cast as Zorro opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones.

"[Bias] is that thing that stops you being regarded as a person and makes you something smaller. With my accent, I've had that experience where I'm suddenly no longer a person with infinite possibilities and potential - I am 'that Scottish person'. I'm reduced to a noise that comes out of my mouth."

To truly embody Marty, he needed very realistic-looking glasses, with a certain thickness and myopic or narrow-looking eyes. Timothée wanted the glasses to feel earned rather than costume. The goal was to not only deliver thick lenses but to create the experience of needing them.

A woman's relationship with Trader Joe's is abstract. It's like the way women see Trader Joe's, it's the way the aliens from 'Arrival' view time. Unlike most men—who make a beeline straight for the same blue-corn tortilla chips that have been there since pre-Obama—women swan dreamily through the store, guided by their foremothers toward the strangest possible products.

They're flawed, they're sad, and they're comic. ... They are everything. Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård expresses his philosophy that human beings are nuanced creatures rather than simply good or evil, reflecting his approach to character development and his rejection of one-dimensional villains.

Alan Cumming has revealed he inadvertently injured Pedro Pascal during production of the upcoming Marvel movie Avengers: Doomsday. The Traitors host, 60, is set to reprise his role as X-Men superhero Nightcrawler in the film. Speaking during a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Cumming said: What was funny was my first scene with Pedro, he hurt his neck and had to go home. So I broke Pedro.

Joel Silver came and had a conversation with me, and he's like, 'The reason your name isn't above the titles is because you're not the star of this thing - it's Jodie. And if you get nominated for an Oscar, it's going to be for Supporting Actor, not Best Actor,' and I was like, 'Thank you for telling me that, now I understand. But, you have to remember that I'm a man just like you, and if you ever talk to me in that way again, I'm going to knock your teeth out of your mouth.'

In a dimly lit, dusty church basement, eight people meet and place their cellphones into a wooden box. Each member of the octet struggles with a dependency upon the very tool that enables us all to enjoy a level of historically unprecedented convenience - the internet. Like the characters, audiences are called to unplug and immerse themselves in the world of Studio Theatre's production of Dave Malloy's unique a capella musical, Octet.

He was on the Emmys trail for his role as Cal Jacobs, the tyrannical father of Nate (Jacob Elordi). He wouldn't earn a nomination for the role, but damn if he didn't deserve it: Dane introduces Cal as a raging maniac, only to convincingly unfurl him as an ailing man who struggled with his sexuality his entire life. Cal's searing coming-out scene in season 2, episode 4 of Euphoria is one of the greatest monologues in recent TV memory.

And this is all in the Oscar nominee's first few minutes as the half-Klingon outlaw Nus Braka in the new Star Trek: Starfleet Academy series. We meet the character when he frogmarched into a trial for the crimes of murder while perpetrating a robbery, with two catchpoles looped around his neck to keep him under control, like a wild animal. Except he is fully in control of his anti-social behavior. He's choosing violence, even while standing before a judge.

The much-debated loss of interest in epic superhero sagas has plagued the genre for the better half of the decade, and Marvel's own dogged need to keep itself at the center of the conversation is partially to blame. Its cinematic universe used to dominate pop culture, but ever since Avengers: Endgame, it's struggled to justify its own existence. Not even self-aware jabs at the MCU's expense - like in Deadpool & Wolverine or the shaky She-Hulk: Attorney at Law - are enough to put the franchise back on track.

He played the wizard Gellert Grindelwald in the first part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2010) and in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018); he also portrayed Caius Vulturi in the Twilight saga (2009) and Jace Wayland in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013). But the role that has truly catapulted actor as well as singer and model Jamie Campbell Bower, 37, to wider recognition is that of the antagonist in the popular Netflix series Stranger Things.

A Thousand Blows returns for its second season darker, bruised, and more inward-looking than before, and when Steven Knight and Malachi Kirby sat down with Kyle Meredith, it was clear that shift was intentional. The Disney+ series, set in the brutal underbelly of 1880s London, picks up with its characters stripped of bravado and fighting to survive the consequences of Season 1.

The role, which spanned nine films, put him up among the world's highest paid actors and made him a global pin-up. Yet the confidence was, in part, a construction. The character you see in interviews, he says, easing into the chaise longue, and the presentation of myself over the last two decades working in Hollywood, it's me but it's a creation too. It's what I thought people wanted to see.

He did as much 13 years ago in Iron Man 3, the second he dropped his guise as the Mandarin to reveal that he was actually Trevor Slattery. The efficacy - not to mention the morality - of this twist has been the topic of heated debate ever since, but no one can deny that Kingsley isn't utterly sympathetic in the role.

In terms of audience recognition, Wonder Man is no Wonder Woman. But, as this latest addition to the MCU shows, that can afford a certain freedom. This miniseries is a surprisingly meta affair; a superhero fantasy by way of the kind of behind-the-camera machinations familiar to fans of Seth Rogen's The Studio. It tells the story of a pair of struggling actors, Simon Williams (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) and Trevor Slattery (Ben Kingsley), who are hustling hard

"No, I don't indulge people like you doing crazy s***," Nolan replied. Citing a specific example, he recalled the time Chalamet, now 30, was filming the scene in which his character records messages from home for his father in space. "There was a particular thing where you were hitting a dark tone," the Inception director remembered. "It felt too much for me. I didn't particularly like it."

According to a UK casting notice viewed by Variety, the producers of Killing Satoshi reserve the right to "change, add to, take from, translate, reformat or reprocess" actors' performances, using "generative artificial intelligence (GAI) and/or machine learning technologies." No digital replicas will be created of performers, but it sounds like plenty of other AI-driven tweaks are on the table.

the best didn't happen this time, but you kind of have to trust in the machine.