Upset that Stephen's middling grades and test scores have him internalizing the message that he's stupid, Nora decides to play idiot provocateur -- she'll get even worse ones, intentionally, just to bring the topic up for discussion.
There's a reason he plays idiots on screen.
"Playing the idiot has been going very good for me," Mr. Arellano said.
Filfilu – his shtick is playing the idiot savant and his comedy covers everything from changing traditions to sex.
Since then, almost imperceptibly, he has taken over our television screens, first playing the idiot savant role on Shooting Stars and then taking the lead in a series of sitcoms, among them Ideal, Dead Man Weds and Benidorm.
He was similarly unimpressed with Simon MacCorkindale noting that, "We had him in Beasts playing an idiot and he was very good at that".
I played the idiot President's idiot son, Alejo, a role perfectly suited to my youthful skills, and over the course of our rehearsals I came to love this buffoonish adolescent in a way that I hadn't expected.
You might reasonably think Whitehall is good at playing posh idiots because he met a lot of them over the course of his educational career.
And if I think they can take it, I tell them, 'You don't need to play the idiot, you already are an idiot.'" McCrystal, who trained as an actor and appeared in Spider-Man 2 as Principal Conway, thinks it helps to understand performing.
Otherwise Jim McDermott of Washington would probably qualify for his recent trip to Baghdad, where he played useful idiot for Saddam Hussein.
It's easy to play the idiot yourself, and half knock yourself out, or half fall over, or ask gormless questions.
