From Streep's admiration of Thatcher, to Andrea Riseborough's comments that she had "psychopathic tendencies", we take a look at what actresses thought about the formidable character they portrayed.
Even had she undertaken it in less lustrous circumstances, Ms. LuPone's reckoning with this formidable part would be a noteworthy theatrical event ("the character she was born to play," declared the Ravinia Web site, not without reason).
Heightening the contrast between Mr. Mitchell and the formidable characters he impersonates was his ebullient sweetness between numbers.
To those formidable characters, add Marc Antony, of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar"—Marvel's first stage role in six years.
Forget for a moment, if that's possible, his onscreen achievements: the meticulously crafted worlds, the epic stories, the formidable characters like Ripley, Deckard, or f Maximus Decimus Meridius.
But the macho culture still has a little life left in it: new TV shows from Marco Pierre White and Tom Aikens ramp up the drama and pressure of high-level cooking, and the formidable characters of top chefs.
Now, for one weekend only, you have the chance to compare these formidable characters, who — by mysterious theatrical convergence — have shown up in revivals that both opened on Thursday night.
The mum in this story is a particularly formidable character and the first sentence is a blinder (though not for repetition in a family newspaper).
10 P.M. (7) BOSTON LEGAL -- Candice Bergen's formidable character makes her debut in this episode, first shown in January.
She is a formidable character and I can think of no better person to deal with all the other formidable characters in this house," said Abbott.
