Asked by Stylist magazine whether he sought out scripts with rounded roles across the cast, he replied: "Well, on more than one film I've persuaded people to build up the female roles.
Plus, Matthew McConaughey ― the category's it guy ― started taking on grittier, well-rounded roles, and even won an Oscar.
Gradually, Hope took on more rounded serio-comic roles, such as the two Damon Runyon characters, Sorrowful Jones (1949) and The Lemon Drop Kid (1951), and in the biopics The Seven Little Foys (1954), based on the life of vaudevillian Eddie Foy - the highlight being a vigorous dance routine with James Cagney - and Beau James (1957) about Jimmy Walker, the flamboyant mayor of New York in the 1920s.
Developing your existing career path - Filling in the "gaps" for becoming well-rounded in your role.
Polman acknowledges there is a new generation of CEOs, brought up in the 1960s, who have a more rounded view of the role of business in society.
Susan Jones is more effectively amusing and absurd as the highly buxom, aging Dacha Dweller, but Martine van Hamel — who wins her own laughs — makes the role more rounded, with a dash of pathos.
But Clarey (who hasn't actually seen the film yet) describes being mortified when discovering from critics, who hailed Theron's performance and the well-rounded nature of her role in the film, that Fury Road was not your average action movie.
Wolfensohn wanted to create a more rounded approach - stressing the role of education (particularly of women), disease prevention and good governance in the development process - rather than the so-called Washington consensus of simply privatising, deregulating and instantaneously opening up fragile economies to free trade and free finance.
His new film, Philomena, may well be his most rounded work to date – the role that might bury his lingering reputation as "just" a TV comedian.
Pizzolatto, whose atmospheric first novel, Galveston, suggests he can write a well-rounded female character, insists her role increases in importance as the series progresses.
