In a thin role Erin Markey ("Green Eyes") makes the most of every entrance as a pregnant waitress, swiveling through a curtain before listlessly taking orders.
Cate Blanchett, on the other hand, is badly served with a thin role and saddled with a terrible accent as a Parisian curator-cum-resistance operative, and this normally superlative performer is entirely wasted.
Heather Graham is a good sport, and she looks notably content with a gleaming gold headdress and bare belly; Marisa Tomei, too, does what she can with the scandalously thin role of a misguided airhead ("I really want to help mankind," she says, through a mouthful of breakfast).
He's a reason to watch, and Mr. Alejandro ("True Blood") and Holt McCallany ("Lights Out") work hard to make something out of their thin roles.
And while the actors do a nice job with their thin roles (Ms. Unker's sad, vacant eyes do some of the best acting in the play), you never truly care about them.
There are few sequences as tight as this in "The Quiet American," which, as a whole, doesn't quite hang together (Do Hai Yen can do little with the reed-thin role of Phuong), but the movie is never less than honorable, and you can sense the poise and pressure of a director who has finally found something that grips.
Swinton and Schoenaerts are robust performers in their different ways, we know, managing to establish a palpable chemistry; Johnson, in what is admittedly the thinnest role of four, is good at projecting a sort of artless dissatisfaction.
Today, if I saw this mannequin while shopping, I'd definitely contemplate the implications of this mannequin providing, or least reinforcing, super-thin role models for our youth.
The young performer, an escaped prisoner from paper-thin roles in mainstream Hollywood, noted that she's received a lot of "MTV Popcorn awards, but this was different".
In a year of thin supporting roles for women, her performance sticks out.
She's too thin for the role, more colorlessly complected than creamy, but she whispers and wobbles nicely".
