Few in the cast are commanding, as actors or singers.
After a promising but tentative Broadway debut last year in A Normal Heart, the preternaturally boyish actor commands the stage in a surprisingly offhanded way.
Acclaimed for his work in TV's Slings and Arrows and Due South, the actor commands the stage in the role originated by Coward himself, and it doesn't hurt that he's gorgeous besides.
With a less sympathetic actor in command, this could have been simply cruel, but Servillo gives Jep the shrug of a clever, kindly soul who rates his own existence no more highly than anyone else's.
Every reader of the series is entitled to an opinion, and mine is that the old man would have found himself smiling, heartily so, at the sight of an Academy Award-winning actor in command of the Surprise, riding high on the topmast, glassing the open ocean for a foe.
That there is hardly an actor in the cast capable of commanding the stage is underscored when finally, in the end, one does.
Whether he is at the commands of his train or at line management, the main actor in railway operation is the human operator.
Once the setup is established, the characters have nowhere to go, despite the actors' commanding efforts.
Thus established, these characters have nowhere to go, despite the actors' commanding efforts.
Not since Hancock and Seven Pounds (both 2008) has the actor been presented as the lead actor in an original property – making his new picture Focus a test case that will command the attention of Hollywood executives.
