Word: understatedness
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Key to that is hiring actors who can do both action and emotion (like the wonderfully understated Garber). For Lost's vast cast, Abrams built characters around the actors. "If he saw something in that person," says Matthew Fox, who stars as Jack, the control-freak doctor, "he adjusted the...
"Any reported death toll would be understated. Whole families are missing. Who would report them?" SYAIFUDDIN ABDULLAH, oil-company project manager, who lost his sister and brother-in-law in Indonesia's Aceh province during the Sumatran earthquake
But the show also wrings awkward humor out of the small humiliations of actor life, as when Bryan does an ER episode and forgets cast member Deezer D's name. ("You probably thought I was Mekhi Phifer," says the peeved African-American actor.) Best is the relationship between Krista and...
HOFFMAN: Well, maybe. I think we're all working off ourselves in this movie to some degree. Bob is a very shy, reticent, understated person, and he's parodying a central quality about himself. And I think everybody's kind of doing that.
Blade: Trinity, to its credit, is easily understandable, and has no pretensions of grandeur. In contrast to other vampire movies it is particularly understated and director David Goyer (the writer of the first two films) keeps Blade going at a quick, clipped pace. It is a product of its genre...