The phrase "actor instead of the" is not correct and does not form a complete thought in written English.
It may be used in a context where you are comparing roles or choices, but it requires additional information to clarify its meaning.
Example: "I would prefer to cast an actor instead of the original choice for the lead role."
Alternatives: "performer rather than the" or "actress instead of the".
Correction: November 27, 2005, Sunday An article on Nov. 13 about movies with multiple story lines misattributed some quotations and credits to an actor instead of the director Rodrigo García, and a correction in this space on Nov. 20 misstated the given name of the actor.
An article on Nov. 13 about movies with multiple story lines misattributed some quotations and credits to an actor instead of the director Rodrigo García, and a correction in this space on Nov. 20 misstated the given name of the actor.
We start to play the part of the pawn instead of the chess master, the actor instead of the play write.
People need to begin to realize that President Obama should have received an Oscar for best actor instead of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Every word of the screenplay and every image in the film, which uses excellent professional actors instead of the nonprofessionals who inhabit many neo-realist films, is calculated.
Many of the celebrated shows, including "Once" and the play "Peter and the Starcatcher," were notable for their imaginative theatricality, inventive staging and ensembles of little-known theater actors, instead of the big-budget or star-driven productions that often prevail on Tony night.
Maybe we'll find a way to jump-start them into reaching a higher level, so that they become conscious actors instead of the blind, indifferent electron pushers they've been so far — although, like anyone who's seen a few science fiction movies, I'm not sure this project is particularly wise.
"He taught how to bring the character close to the actor, instead of how to bring the actor close to the character.
Cruz and other Republicans seized on the comment to paint Lynch as a partisan actor instead of an impartial proponent of the law – an assessment countered by decades of cases in which Lynch, as a federal prosecutor, repeatedly took on and defeated some of the country's most insidious criminal networks.
At the outset, it is a procedural tool used to designate the state as the regulatory actor instead of a city or county.
It will take time before many of us will be able to see the actor instead of his famous character, and time for him to shake that role off too, though it helps that Mr. Radcliffe is no longer encumbered by Harry's mop and especially his glasses.
