Sentence examples for actor a blank from inspiring English sources
"You can never give an actor a blank piece of paper.
The play begins with a series of actors on a blank stage, delivering a very particular description of a certain place on a certain day.
Wright could just as well have put his actors against a blank wall while pointing at them from the edge of the frame without diminishing the impact of their performance.
This usually involves some tortured-looking actor staring at a blank surface (page, canvas, block of marble), eyes aflame and brow furrowed like a freshly plowed field.
A remarkably thin actor, he's a blank sheet of paper that resists emotion and ideas; he is also physically smug, a frat boy who knows that the world is his oyster.
8. Julius Caesar (1953) US actors often draw a blank with iambic pentameters (with the recent exception of Kevin Spacey on stage) but Marlon Brando, in the days when he was still taking acting seriously, is an impressive Mark Antony in Joseph Mankiewicz's vision of the Shakespeare work that has always spoken powerfully to the US, thanks to that country's history of assassinations.
So naturally when it came to fill this crucial part in Genisys they cast the charisma-free Courtney, an actor who's such a blank slate he might as well be playing a Terminator himself.
The making of Avatar, and of its sequel, which is already under way, made her rethink the future of movies: its radical new technology means actors are performing in a blank space, with no diversions or distractions (the scenery and special effects were visible on monitors nearby).
"American actors arrive on the set a blank book – now that's fine, that's their tradition, but as a British director it's absolutely terrifying …" This article was amended on 28 October 2013.
How strange to see an actor associated with febrile goofiness being so effective as a blank.
