Moranis played nerd accountant Louis Tully in both earlier films.
The narrative gives him too many and too conflicting a set of roles to play: nerd, stud, billionaire, goat-farmer, prisoner.
Writer-director Writer-director Matt Ross-mogul Gavin Belson on Silicon Valley) has pulled off something remarkable here, a funny, clever, moving family drama whoh not one whit of cuteness or playsousness and no selling its characters short.
He's playing a nerd, so yeah.
Preview audiences rejected the bit, in which Brendan Fraser, playing a nerd who is given seven wishes by the Devil, wishes he were a rock star.
At work, Fey tempers her hard-line reputation by playing the nerd — by pretending that she's unfamiliar with, rather than disdainful of, the ways of the less temperate.
Rosa paused for a moment, thinking about the imaginary thermometer, then changed the subject to tell me about the part she had in a school show, playing "the nerd sheep".
LOS ANGELES — From his break in 1992 playing Bank Nerd No. 2 in the sitcom "Married With Children," to his supporting role on the HBO hit "Six Feet Under," to a part in last year's "Spider-Man 3," Tim Maculan has navigated Hollywood more successfully than most actors.
Actors cavort around playing jocks, nerds, cops, bobbysoxers – all interacting with the audience.
Mr. Elrod invests William with more convincing awkward quirks than anyone I have seen since Alan Cumming in his days of playing movie nerds.
