If Latinas never get to play those characters and instead have to settle for stereotypical, one dimensional roles -- like the poorly developed Latina sidekick or best friend -- it's not likely Latinas will win major awards.
A big man, Mr. Affleck is shriveled by the one-dimensional role.
And that means that we have to shrink to a more two-dimensional role than our actual lives are".
A big man, Ben Affleck (left) is shriveled by his one-dimensional role as the blind, red-costumed, horn-headed Marvel comic-book crime fighter.
And while Fukunaga's take on Pennywise is likely to be more subtle and layered than the 1990 version, it's still a pretty one-dimensional role.
In the early hours of the drama he said little else and yet what seemed to be a one-dimensional role – that of a hired, blunted executioner - gave way to something incredibly sympathetic.
Ditto her co-star in that movie, Miles Teller, an amazingly self-assured, charismatic young actor who here is lumbered with the one-dimensional role of Woodley's boot-camp bully.
But acquiring a multi-dimensional role, which is a prerequisite for happiness as public policy, will be a tall order for Cameron even if he bases himself only on Prof Martin Seligman's secular theory of happiness.
The same is true of Omar Gooding, who brings a reserve of charisma to the one-dimensional role of Tuck Brody, a good-humored nurse who makes everything work.
Ms. Rose is essentially the entire show, receiving minimal support from Mr. McCarthy (whose only expressive gesture consists of vigorously scratching his head, as if in search of ticks) and even less from Mr. Bancroft, a granite-featured soap opera veteran locked into a one-dimensional role.
As Ennis's wife Alma, Heather Buck has the only other three-dimensional role, and manages to make something sympathetic out of it; the rest, though, are little more than ciphers, and dramatically some of them really don't need to be there at all.
