Strip away all of the side projects, and the best-paid scripted actor (Two and a Half Men's Charlie Sheen) still managed to out-earn the best-paid scripted actress (CSI's Marg Helgenberger) three-to-one when back-end profits were factored in.
Ken Jeong explained that, while all the scenes were scripted, the actors were allowed to improvise their lines during the improv shots.
The 100-page screenplay detailed plot developments and many of the visual traits, but very little dialogue was scripted, so the actors were asked to improvise their lines.
An intricately designed piece of theater, the big con consisted of actors, extras, sets, costumes, and nine scripted acts.
Scripted by former actor Taylor Sheridan, it stars Emily Blunt as Kate Macer, an FBI agent manipulated and morally compromised as she's brought in by Josh Brolin's CIA suit for an off-the-books operation to bring down a Mexican drugs cartel.
But although he often worked with distinguished writers (most famously the trilogy of literary adaptations - The Servant, Accident, The Go-Between - scripted by Harold Pinter), excellent actors (five films with Dirk Bogarde, four with Stanley Baker, the two actors representing different sides of Losey's own character) and the best British cinematographers, he was an authentic "auteur".
The people chronicled are not actors, not scripted.
It's obvious that the scenes of the bank robbery and the surrounding events are staged reconstructions, or, simply, fiction filmmaking, and as I watched the film I wondered whether even the interviews were scripted and performed by actors.
He said the network liked the show but found it onerous to produce a fully scripted series complete with actors, a set and a studio audience at Fox Television Studios in Los Angeles.
Jia composes the film around interviews with former residents of the factory complex — workers or their descendants — several of which are, in fact, scripted and performed by actors, including Joan Chen, whose character, Little Flower, gets her nickname from her resemblance to a character played by Chen in a 1980 melodrama of that title.
