Set in 17th-century France, it is a comedy about the arrival, in a theater troupe, of a hugely egomaniacal but intellectually lightweight actor, "the beast" or fool of the title, who makes his entrance with an uninterrupted 22-minute monologue, a paean to his own gifts.
The rich villainy of J. R. revived Mr. Hagman's career after his co-starring role in the hit 1960s sitcom "I Dream of Jeannie" had typecast him as a lightweight comic actor.
Mocked by some as the most lightweight actor to play 007, Roger Moore was always aware of his limitations as a film star, and this endearing memoir shows why he remains many people's favourite James Bond.
Mr. Levesque — a professional wrestler whose ring name is Triple H — is a perfectly tolerable actor, as he shows in "The Chaperone," a lightweight comedy aimed, presumably, at tweeners and fans of World Wrestling Entertainment, whose film division generated this project.
In "Matilda" that's Miss Trunchbull, a schoolmistress who lives to crush children's spirits and is here given a gothic heft (by a wonderfully unwinking male actor, Bertie Carvel) that makes Miss Hannigan of "Annie" a lightweight.
In "Rise," the actor Andy Serkis, who plays the chimp protagonist Caesar, wears a lightweight helmet with a video camera mounted directly in front of his face to record every nuance of expression, outdoors as well as indoors.
The part of it that is most concerning for me is I just think he's a phenomenal actor and some people deal with him as if he's a lightweight.
Even Ben Jonson is a lightweight, De Vere dismissively telling him, writer to writer: "You have no voice!" Shakespeare is an illiterate, murderous, money-hungry actor and social climber.
