Kevin Bacon played the lead character in the '80s movie.
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She said Shkreli is a compelling lead character for a musical.
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You're with the lead character from page one and a half.
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It also finally has a lead character with an actual personality.
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He also has some strong opinions on Kingdom Hearts' lead character.
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Boxers: Okay, this smells like a new lead character to me.
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Mr. Leonard gave the lead character, Maxwell Lefkowitz, his real name.
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But what really stands out about Judgment is the lead character, Yagami.
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An app called "Ness" features the lead character from Nintendo's game Earthbound.
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It demands discipline from the lead character of our foremost American drama.
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He "leeches" some of lead character Manfred's energy simply by touching him.
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However, lead character Richard Hendricks (Thomas Middleditch) isn't so cut and dry.
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Works out well ... her lead character on the drama also got married.
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Well, everyone but lead character Rosaline Capulet (Lashana Lynch) would expect this.
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The way the lead character is dressed reminds me of my dad.
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But there's another lead character of sorts in "The Prom": the ensemble.
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She helped to inspire the lead character in a Danish television series.
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A hand-held camera is often following the lead character from behind.
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Footage of the game showed off Siwa, home of the game's lead character.
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It delivers on the promise of a empathetic lead character in Henry himself.
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That isn't totally crazy; after all, lead character Noctis' favorite pastime is fishing.
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Which is why I'm so glad that Regina King is the lead character.
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"The Fate of the Furious" sees Diesel's lead character Dominic Toretto go rogue.
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WALLACE: There&aposs also his bumpy relationship with the show&aposs lead character.
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She also played the lead character in the 2016 version of Lady Macbeth.
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Andrea Zukerman, played by Gabrielle Carteris, was a lead character on the show.
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The lead character is a woman, which is rare for the biker genre.
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Ash, the franchise's lead character, is strangely central to the Bitcoin founder story.
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The lead character, Flight, for example, must be at least 13-foot-5.
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Iceman is the only running Marvel series to feature a queer lead character.
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The lead character was a well-intended but ineffective National Green Tribunal worker.
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The lead character played and named after Wayans is a YouTube vlogger by trade.
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How do you sever ties with someone so closely linked to another lead character?
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Dre himself will be playing the lead character in the, reportedly, semi-autobiographical tale.
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In case it wasn't clear, the lead character in this movie is always white.
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Take Hunger Games lead character Katniss Everdeen (played by Jennifer Lawrence in the movies).
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But since that July day, Comey has become the lead character in the story.
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This is the first time I've given a lead character a really strange moniker.
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And like the rock opera's lead character, I had lost my father as a child.
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His lead character, a "depraved Hollywood mogul," according to the promotional materials, is Barney Fein.
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So our lead character is super-optimistic, but we wanted to make sure she wasn't vacant.
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Within the film's first few minutes, the lead character (Isabelle Huppert) is raped in her home.
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The biggest changes have more to do with the new lead character than the new platform.
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In DuVernay's adaptation, the lead character - a young girl named Meg Murry (Storm Reid) — is Black.
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But The Lost Legacy proves that there's more to Uncharted than just its former lead character.
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Week after week, Tatiana Maslany would play lead character Sarah Manning and an assortment of clones.
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In Afuera, the lead character, Jennifer, is not only transgender, but she is undocumented, and Latina.
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Add to this that the lead character is a black woman, and well, there you go.
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WarGames stars Jess Nurse as the lead character Kelly, a budding hacker with a conflicted past.
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The single cut depicts the lead character singer Tommy Singh urinating in front of an audience.
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"West Side Story was the first musical I encountered with a Latina lead character," Zegler continued.
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Daniel Holden (Aden Young) the lead character of Sundance's quiet drama Rectify, is an odd duck.
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Watch a movie such as Arrival and remark on the lead character being a female professor.
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I know this, because in the pilot episode the lead character, Jane Sloane, invoked my name.
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And BET's "Being Mary Jane" had its lead character freeze her eggs on the fictional show.
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"The Fate of the Furious" sees lead character Dominic Toretto, played by Vin Diesel, go rogue.
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But this is no longer the show that made its lead character headless before season two.
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Marking her first studio feature, Martin will star as the younger version of the lead character.
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How bad can we beat up the lead character to make you feel empathy for him?
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Without warning, the television series killed off a lead character, the lawyer Will Gardner, midseason, midseries.
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The episode was one of the first to show a Black lead character getting an abortion.
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The lead character there really is an alien, one with seemingly total command of time and space.
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All of this has made the upcoming death of lead character Rick Grimes such an unusual case.
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She took over the role in 1952 shortly after Gertrude Lawrence died while performing the lead character.
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"It's definitely refreshing to have a lead character as a female lead and really complex and great."
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That show's lead character was explicitly a Trump supporter, like Roseanne Barr, who starred in the role.
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Our lead character, Rebecca, has no rational reason for being so drawn to her obsession, Josh Chan.
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There's a startling scene early in this movie between the lead character, Joan, and her husband, Robin.
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It's a bombshell moment that would land with more force if Maia were a compelling lead character.
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It feels like the house from "Misery," if the lead character were into beer instead of literature.
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Said remake has drawn criticisms of whitewashing ever since Scarlett Johansson was cast as the lead character.
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The book's lead character Clara is now a "cisgender girl," who releases wild horses and fights net neutrality.
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The titular lead character in Sable is a young girl who sets out on a pilgrimage of sorts.
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This is why Wolverine isn't necessarily the show's lead character, even though his name is in the title.
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She's not just Josh's girlfriend; she's a new lead character in both his life and the show itself.
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The trouble started this summer, when the female-centered Ghostbusters remake debuted with Jones as a lead character.
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Women are very adept at fitting themselves into and relating to a male narrative, a male lead character.
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The Netflix original may feature a kid as a lead character, but Coffee & Kareem is no kids' film.
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Perhaps in 2018 we have less patience for a lead character who fails math to impress a boy.
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First, gratitude for her craftsmanship and dedication to the storytelling on behalf of our lead character, Jenna Hunterson.
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Miles is confirmed to be the lead character in Sony's animated Spider-Man movie, due out in 2018.
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Lead character Midge doesn&apost have any money saved for her divorce, leaving her in a bad position.
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No, these words are fighting words, the kind that get you labeled an "antihero" when you're a lead character.
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But the film also highlights the moral ambiguity of both the battle in Michoacán, and of its lead character.
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There's no one lead character who's going to make it though; you can't trust that anyone will do that.
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Sticking with type, Rheon will play the villain Maximus — aka "Maximus the Mad" — brother of lead character Black Bolt.
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"She was created by a weird nerdy guy to be his ultimate girlfriend," Frank says of the lead character.
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So I prefer to allow each reader to have their own version of the lead character in their minds.
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The lead character of Netflix's On My Block is Monse, a biracial girl played by Afro Latina Sierra Capri.
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He'll reportedly play Commander Adams, an old and valued friend of lead character Dwayne Pride ... played by Scott Bakula.
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The actor said that he plays the father of the film's lead character, Jyn Erso, played by Felicity Jones.
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Lawrence does shine in a smaller role as a flashback version of the lead character played by … Charlize Theron!
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The lead character speaks with a different voice as a man (Michael Dorsey) than as a woman (Dorothy Michaels).
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Wendy Hiller's lead character thinks she knows where she's going — off to the Scottish Hebrides to marry for money.
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For instance: The lead character in the 2012 Oscar-winner "Argo" was Mexican-American CIA operative Antonio "Tony" Mendez.
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That's Grace from Boston, aka the lead character in Peloton's recent viral spot, and...well, she's not doing great.
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The lead character Shawn, played by Bridger Zadina, makes an eight-hour journey from Los Angeles up to Santa Cruz.
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It's Harry Potter without the detailed world building, The Hunger Games without the social commentary or the charismatic lead character.
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Vanessa [Williams] plays the lead character, Maxine Robinson, who is the most formidable broadcast journalist in the history of television.
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Anna: We chose a lead character who was young enough that he would have a future in the united Germany.
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If you saw the movie ('cause who didn't?), the lead character, Harmony, pins a random family pic to the wall
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And Rae, who created, writes, produces, and plays the lead character in Insecure, received her first best actress Emmy nomination.
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Fuller announced Wednesday that the new show will feature a female lead character and honor the franchise's history of inclusion.
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In the new film, the lead character, James Donahue, is her character's brother, and shares the actress's real last name.
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The show's lead character Olivia Pope (played by Kerry Washington) is a whose wardrobe is well-styled and ever-evolving.
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ABC announced Thursday it's planning to air a "Roseanne" spinoff this fall that won't include its lead character, Rosanne Barr.
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And 8% of last year's family films included a lead character with a disability, up from 1% ten years ago.
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Death is a numbers game in which the odds are against you — even if you looked like a lead character.
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It even dared to include yet another gay man as a lead character in Sean Hayes's melodramatic Jack (Sean Hayes).
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Over the years, Sacha Baron Cohen and Jonah Hill were attached to play the lead character, the jeweler Howard Ratner.
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The garland features the faces of each lead character, and it would make a great addition to your holiday display.
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In the last big scene, my lead character is photographing a movie set at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.
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The idea behind behind "Heil Honey I'm Home" was to transform Adolf Hitler into the lead character in a sitcom.
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Arkane has also made a point of noting that players can choose either male or female versions of the lead character.
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"I love that the lead character is biracial and you just get that through the context of the movie," she said.
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Mokoya sees visions of the future as it will be, and is the lead character in The Black Tides of Heaven.
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This apparently has no bearing on their current relationship, as our lead character is not being very loving to her boo.
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The rat role entails popping out of the cage at one point and kissing the lead character, Christopher, an autistic teenager.
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You have this lead character who deals with bones all the time; I wanted to see the flip side of her.
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She played Michelle, a co-worker of Kate Hudson's lead character, Andie, in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.
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Outlander More than almost any other show on television, "Outlander" is ruled by the internal life of its female lead character.
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Of course, Archie is the same name as the lead character on the hit CW show and original comic book series.
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I believe it makes the book more universal to have a simpler lead character that the reader can project themselves onto.
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Taking on a lead character "is such a cool change — I'm over the moon," said Ms. Purser, who recently turned 21.
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One of the best things about Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is that it doesn't give all the best scenes to its lead character.
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Also, the lead character was a woman who appeared dark and negative – they didn't want to have anything to do with that.
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Stereogum reports that Smith will lend his voice to the lead character while Law tackles the role of Kai's very special butler.
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The lead character on HBO's Veep, played brilliantly by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, is the only truly DGAF mom we have right now.
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Trump's win is the moral loss that tosses lead character Ally Mayfair-Richards (Sarah Paulson) into the throws of her darkest phobias.
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Waller's murky morals are familiar territory for Davis, whose lead character on ABC's How to Get Away With Murder is similarly nuanced.
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It's not often you come by a lead character of a film that is plus-sized and it's not about her weight.
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The show, originally starring Jessie Mueller as lead character Jenna Hunterson, was helmed by the first all-woman creative team on Broadway.
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Carrie Bradshaw, the lead character, played by Parker, always seemed to either have one in hand or be in search of one.
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The story is fairly standard stuff, but what makes it interesting is how you actually have some control over the lead character.
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Over the original God of War trilogy and a multitude of spinoffs, the series' lead character was little more than a caricature.
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Marvel fans are already likening the lead character in the film to Black Widow from the Avengers, and we can see why.
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Next, he'll be playing the lead character in the long-awaited third season of True Detective, set to debut on January 13.
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The internet, and the public, have been making their stance very clear on Johansson being cast to play the Asian lead character.
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HBO also shared the first details of Mahershala Ali's lead character, Wayne Hays, who is a state police detective from Northwest Arkansas.
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You would have committed the classic novice writer sin of being nice to your lead character at the expense of the story.
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In the video announcing this "infinite pirate generator" approach, Sam Chester, the game's lead character artist, explained why Rare made this decision.
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I not only felt like I was the lead character in my own dark, twisted story, but I increasingly became engaged emotionally.
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In the middle of "Submit," Cherry completely reads Melrose after she performs an unsafe wrestling attack on lead character Ruth (Alison Brie).
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This scene occurs in a conference room after the lead character, Christian (Ben Affleck), is hired to review a company's financial records.
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One scene has the lead character wailing and the women of Harga surrounding her, mimicking her actions and crying along with her.
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Hell, the Marvel series Star Wars: Doctor Aphra has been running for three years with a queer lead character by this point.
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In another context, he might have been the lead character in a prestige cable drama about an antihero dabbling in criminal activity.
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"Powers" actress Logan Browning plays lead character Samantha White in the series, taking over the role played by Tessa Thompson in the movie.
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Deadline explains that its lead character, Andi (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) learns that the person she thought was her sister is actually her mom.
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Upcoming movies include the musical biopic "Rocketman," about gay icon Elton John, and high school comedy "Booksmart," which has a lesbian lead character.
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Ailes told the FBI that neither Foster nor Robert De Niro, who played the film's lead character, had been guests on the program.
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This is most evident in the closer of "Bone Orchard," when lead character Shadow Moon is lynched by new god Technical Boy's minions.
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Of course, T'Challa is the name of Chadwick Boseman's lead character, and Wakanda is his fictional homeland in the massive box office smash.
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Lead-character superheroes remain firmly on the side of good for as long as the studio plans to make money off their movies.
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In "Crazy Rich Asians," Charlie is the former flame of Astrid Young Teo (played by Gemma Chan), cousin of lead character Nick Young.
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In Summerland, Paloma Dawkins's new graphic novel, the lead character Santana is asked by an artist why she decided to pursue law school.
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Having watched the pilot, I can't deny the various feminist themes I picked up on, many of them coming from Nash's lead character.
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There were only six Angels [who serve as the lead character Lola's entourage], and we were each made special in our own way.
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In overall storytelling structure, it makes me think more of Game of Thrones: dumb decisions have consequences and no lead character feels safe.
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It might sound strange, but an Asian-American lead character playing a low achiever might just be what our community needs right now.
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Towards the end of the film, the lead character has an important message to others in his community who may have lost something.
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Nevertheless, "Lazarus" does have a lead character, the man we first saw, who, like Ailey in his late phase, is marked for death.
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Roughly a quarter of adults under 603 abandoned the show after the lead character, Arie Luyendyk Jr., was largely seen as a dud.
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And even with examples of authentic casting on "Atypical," the lead character, who is autistic, is played by an actor who is not.
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In Mazzoli's opera, such issues quickly recede: we trust that the lead character is not undergoing degradation for the sake of male fantasy.
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I support her as a strong feminist while also recognizing a bit of a Michael Scott (lead character on The Office) lack of awareness.
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Not just when she's playing a strong lead character in How To Get Away With Murder or Fences — she's also a bonafide badass IRL.
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Theron starred in 2015's Oscar-winning movie "Mad Max: Fury Road," in which she played the lead character beside Tom Hardy's Mad Max.
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Chalamet will be playing lead character Paul Atreides, the center of a wealthy and powerful family which has control over a resource-rich planet.
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"He said he's had to train himself, when he reads a script, not to automatically assume that the lead character is white," she said.
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In order to do that, you have to utilize a somewhat strange skill: the titular lead character can produce boxes out of his body.
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Sonequa Martin-Green stars as First Officer Michael Burnham — who is also the first lead character in Star Trek history who isn't a captain.
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"Internet-streaming storytelling can basically take us anywhere, there are no rules," says Ms Marling, who also plays the show's lead character, Prairie Johnson.
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In the Family used visual motifs that centered and isolated the lead character to show how the world around him chose to see him.
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The show's fans have drawn parallels to Breaking Bad, in which the lead character also gets on the wrong side with a drug cartel.
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He became famous for his screen role in Jessie as Luke Ross, a part he played alongside Debby Ryan as the eponymous lead character.
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Most younger fans today know Perry from Riverdale, on which he plays Fred Andrews, the loving father to the lead character, Archie (KJ Apa).
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Del Castillo is probably best known to Telemundo fans as Teresa Mendoza, the lead character from 2011 hit telenovela show La Reina del Sur.
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What's revolutionary about the Outlander storyline is that the sexual assault victim is male — and also a lead character in a popular television drama.
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No casting has yet been announced for the lead character of Willowdean, who is really the heart and soul of this body-positive story.
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One of those ones where the lead character looks like they're in an anime and has some sort of ski goggles on their head.
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In this episode, the lead character Ash and the gang get transported inside a pokémon transmitter machine to a kind of digital alternate universe.
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The show's fans have drawn parallels to Breaking Bad, in which the lead character also gets on the wrong side of a drug cartel.
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This works in the show's favor, creating one hell of a mystery box for the audience that the lead character will not necessarily open.
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In this scene, the lead character, David, played by Colin Farrell, arrives at breakfast and must face the seating area of the happily coupled.
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In Monty Python's film, "The Life of Brian," the lead character hangs hopelessly on the cross when a small army arrives to rescue him.
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Jay-Z's lead character from his 'Story of O.J.' music video is getting drafted for a whole new role ... in fashion and home wares.
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The early scenes of the film, when your lead character is meeting his teammates at the house where they live, they're none too nice.
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Luckily we had a psychologist there who defended our choice to make the lead character quite blank—someone the audience could project on to.
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"The Good Doctor" is a big-hearted medical drama with a twist: The lead character, a brilliant resident played by Freddie Highmore, is autistic.
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It has a gay lead character (Tarver) and is staffed predominantly by female or gay writers, including Kelly, and early results have been encouraging.
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Liam Hemsworth's lead character felt like he was just basically there for eye candy and to get in a fight with another main character.
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You've got a lead character who's in trouble for that girlfriend payoff plot, and for having a whole pile of crooks in his administration.
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It was startling to hear the lead character on a show that has called itself, and been called, feminist make a crack about someone's body.
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The streaming platform cut ties with Kevin Spacey, who played the lead character in the network's wildly popular political thriller House of Cards, in November.
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And in both the game and the film the layout is claustrophobic, the lead character confined by walls of opposing jungle foliage or cave rock.
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The visual treatment, by filmmaker Alexander Carver, features ANOHNI as the lead character, a well-dressed corporate woman in the throes of a fever dream.
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Casting is still underway for Discovery's lead character, who will be female and, in a break from Trek tradition, will not be the ship's captain.
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Yet, that's exactly what we'll see when the reimagined primetime soaps airs, now starring Latina UnReal alum Nathalie Kelley as lead character Cristal Flores-Carrington.
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"The Theory of Everything" actress Felicity Jones plays feisty lead character Jyn Erso, whose rebellious streak was first shown in a trailer released in April.
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Hasbro, like other toymakers, faced a storm of criticism when it initially omitted products that feature Rey, the film's female lead character, from its range.
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Think of popular, Best Picture–winning movies like The French Connection, where lead character Popeye Doyle is an unrepentant racist but gets the job done.
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Alwyn is an actor, who had his breakout role only in November of 73 starring as the lead character in Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.
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Fans raved over Dakota Johnson's take on the lead character in the BDSM drama "Fifty Shades of Grey," but the role almost went to Clarke.
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In the third season of "Transparent" on Amazon, Sophia Grace Gianna played a young version of the lead character, a transgender woman named Maura Pfeffermann.
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One lead character, Ronald Clamp, is obviously based on Donald Trump (with a dash of Ted Turner thrown in, shout out to the apocalypse video).
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The eighth "Fast and Furious" movie promises plenty of fast cars, chases and explosions as lead character Dominic Toretto, played by Vin Diesel, goes rogue.
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Impressively photographed and perkily paced, Jason Filiatrault's story never droops quite as much as its lead character, injecting a welcome poignancy that tempers the cuteness.
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Of course, there are intolerant people everywhere, but Nicolás López's movie isn't clever enough to make its lead character sympathetic or multidimensional, only more insufferable.
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Bill Hader's lead character capitalized on the antihero wave ushered in by Breaking Bad, but delivered something more sinister and amusing than previously thought possible.
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Four years later, Universal began running "The Boondocks," which satirized African-American culture and American politics through the eyes of its young lead character, Huey.
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It's a cop drama, with a take-no-prisoners lead character who has a giant blue dildo and a young fanboy toady who worships her.
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Not every show needs to include a lead character of color just for diversity's sake, but on this show, it feels like a glaring omission.
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In fantasy series like The Witcher, you shouldn't consider the possibility of someone being dead — particularly a lead character — until you see their dead body.
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Amy Adams stars in The New York Times bestselling thriller "The Woman In the Window" adaptation as the lead character, child psychologist, Dr. Anna Fox.
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By 303, Ms. Amanat had cocreated a Marvel series whose lead character, Kamala Khan (aka Ms. Marvel) was a Muslim teenager living in New Jersey.
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Russian Doll takes Groundhog Day, but turns it into a dark comedy series, where the lead character just can't stop dying and reliving the same day.
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As with the original Little Women, the latest television version opens with lead character and resident tomboy Jo bemoaning the idea of a Christmas without presents.
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Inspired by the popular Japanese anime film Spirited Away, Grande got a huge portrait of the lead character, Chihiro, inked on the inside of her forearm.
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That's good because, aside from the lead character, Spider-Man feels a lot like every other sprawling open-world action game — for better and for worse.
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Returning screenwriter Derek Kolstad reaffirms the appealing ingenuity of his highly memorable lead character, whose clear motivations for underworld score-settling are both relatable and rootable.
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And like The Sinner, Jessica Biel will be starring as the lead character and executive producing the show, so we know it's going to be good.
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Just 14 of the films surveyed featured a lead character with a disability, and more than two-thirds of characters with disabilities portrayed overall were male.
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Andrew Webster, The Verge The story is fairly standard stuff, but what makes it interesting is how you actually have some control over the lead character.
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The news comes after the recent departure of Connie Britton, whose lead character Rayna James died last month after succumbing to injuries from a car crash.
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In 1973, he starred as police inspector Vijay Khanna in the film "Zanjeer, " where his brooding lead character is an honest cop in a crooked town.
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Correction August 10th, 9:10PM ET: This article previously stated that Star Trek Discovery's female lead character would assume the rank of captain, not lieutenant commander.
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"Basically the lead character knows they're in trouble, and she just nailed the right level of fear," executive producer Matthew Spickard told Medford TV station KTVL.
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This was round one, as Johnson signed on to voice the lead character for this animated movie about an astronaut who lands on an alien planet.
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Once animated by similar dreams of success in the film business, the lead character, Sam, now floats listlessly but finds renewed purpose as an amateur detective.
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Its lead character was an outspoken middle-aged feminist whose atypical household consisted of her husband, her daughter from an earlier marriage and the daughter's son.
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While the second season has a slower pace than the first, its deep dive into the past of its lead character, Sartaj Singh (Khan), is thrilling.
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The fourth season opens with Richard Hendricks, the lead character and company founder, trying once again to turn his visionary compression algorithm into a viable business.
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The lead character, Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler), a jewelry store owner, has recently acquired a rare gem, but he's also accumulated some debt along the way.
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Intertwining with the plot, the music in "San Junipero" is essentially the third lead character, dictating the era, the environment, the atmosphere, and even the story itself.
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The sitcom was incredibly progressive for its time — its lead character was a working woman who happened to be single, a rarity in the decade's TV landscape.
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Washington (CNN)You might remember that Baby, the lead character of the film "Dirty Dancing," was actually named Frances after the first woman in a president's Cabinet.
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" Jones tells me, with a sigh, that she and her lead character were "not on great terms throughout, and we had to spend so much time together.
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Instead, it was the idea of exploring the exhibit's re-creations of the Mr. Robot computer store and lead character Elliot's bedroom that was drawing people in.
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But as far as Hollywood studios and TV networks were concerned, an openly gay lead character still felt practically impossible, let alone one with a terminal illness.
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Despite the title of Avengers: Infinity War, the lead character isn't Iron Man, Captain America, or any of the other Avengers who protect the world from evil.
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The maimed and constrained blue-collar icon of yore was later repurposed under the name Pesterminator in the 1990s, the lead character in a Super Nintendo Game.
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Its lead character was Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks), a cowboy rag doll manufactured in the 1950s, and there weren't many children playing with those in 1995.
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The video is tongue-and-cheek, with the lead character lamenting over how pop culture's feminist movement spreads empowering messaging that don't directly translate into measurable change.
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He also voices the lead character in The Emoji Movie, which hits theaters this summer, and he'll be part of the cast of the upcoming Deadpool 2.
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Jackson's criticism has attracted the attention of John Boyega, the a British actor that you may recognize as the lead character from the latest Star Wars franchise.
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Its adaptation for television on streaming service Hulu last year brought new acclaim and multiple Emmy awards for the performance by Elisabeth Moss as lead character Offred.
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An example of the ideal cast member would be the talented Constance Wu, who he had in mind to play the lead character, Rachel, from the beginning.
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That's the main headline to take from "War Machine," a muddled satire about the war in Afghanistan awkwardly forced to camouflage its lead character behind a pseudonym.
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Lead character Alex has to deal with everyone from her goofy new step-brother to her deceased brother's ex-girlfriend to her longtime, super annoying best friend.
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In Doctor Strange, we have a lead character presented with an analogous dilemma: he can learn about magic and mysticism to help himself, or to help others.
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Ray Chase, the voice of lead character Noctis in Square Enix's Final Fantasy XV, has experienced this sort of treatment his entire career as a voice actor.
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Mr. Spacey has played the lead character in "House of Cards" since it debuted in 2013, starring alongside Robin Wright and also serving as an executive producer.
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Last month, Kirkman shocked fans with the death of Rick Grimes, who had been the lead character since the very first issue was published in October 2003.
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He and the lead character, played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, have a tense, complicated, and sexually charged relationship that results in a memorable scene in a confessional.
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The reboot boats great jokes, some solid action sequences, and a winning voice cast that's led by David Tennant, in full Scottish dudgeon, as the lead character.
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I said: 'Listen, not one person is going to see a movie where the lead character dies from AIDS and then you see how the band carries on.
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She's been doxed, harassed, and cast as the lead character in an outlandish conspiracy theory about a "Jewish plot" to manipulate 222chan users into sharing pro-Yang content.
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When we last saw Issa Dee (Issa Rae) and her Los Angeles friend group, the show's lead character had been left by her longtime boyfriend, Lawrence (Jay Ellis).
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"The Birth of a Nation," a blistering slave-revolt drama that Mr. Parker wrote and directed (along with playing the lead character), had its premiere here Monday afternoon.
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The most obvious case for Atypical's unexpected conservatism is how it handles the storyline of Julia Sasaki (Amy Okuda), the therapist of lead character Sam Gardner (Keir Gilchrist).
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Its lead character Kell is a rare Antari — someone born with the power to travel between worlds, who finds his loyalties tested as the tensions between worlds rises.
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Within the first five minutes of Netflix's new movie, To All The Boys I've Loved Before, lead character Lara Jean's older sister breaks up with her boyfriend, Josh.
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They add no levels to the conflict, and are usually there just to make the lead character look good, which is already achieved in so many other ways.
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"It's sad that we still haven't seen a lesbian, gay, bi or trans lead character in a Disney film," Stonewall, an equality campaigns group, said in a statement.
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Once he realized the game was likely to be a success, he proposed to Jori Baldwin, his longtime girlfriend and the inspiration for Sworcery's lead character, the Scythian.
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Though Hilary was the lead character on Disney Channel's "Lizzie McGuire," her older sister Haylie appeared on a couple of episodes of the show as Kate Sanders' cousin.
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"You should have a lot of faith in your ensemble, rather than building a show around a lead character, or building a show around personality problems," he says.
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The movie's second lead character, a consciousness or, if you will, soul that refers to itself as "A," inexplicably wakes up every morning inhabiting a different teenager's body.
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A lot of times, we see movies like this in which the lead character is thin, and then she loses more weight, and then her life is great.
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"The lead character spent a lot of time with a cloth over his head," Mr. Hedison said in an interview, recalling that he really liked the script nonetheless.
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They also ignored that a recent production of the play had the lead character played by a black actor who looked and acted a lot like President Obama.
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That it also encompasses musical prodigy, the prospect of assisted suicide, and the forthright, self-deprecation of its flawed and funny lead character made it even more so.
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In 2018, she got a huge tattoo of Chihiro, the lead character in the anime film Spirited Away, tattooed on her arm by her go-to artist Mira Mariah.
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Even in a divisive political climate, this show doesn't back down from doing an entire episode about Ramadan or letting its lead character immerse himself in religious prayer often.
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In addition, Alaskey could be heard as Plucky Duck on Tiny Toon Adventures and the lead character on Duck Dodgers – a performance that earned him a Daytime Emmy Award.
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The project was essentially rebooted into its current form with some of the original elements — lead character Noctis and his merry band of boys Prompto, Ignis, and Gladiolus — intact.
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"She begins work as a nurse's assistant, but risks everything when she opens a makeshift clinic in her apartment to serve the community," Variety writes of the lead character.
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I also cried because I love that a black actor plays Meg Murry (Storm Reid), the lead character, and because I'm so excited that Oprah Winfrey will be Mrs.
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The enigmatic lead character of the Twilight "saga" was less a fully fleshed-out human than a series of loosely justified motivations on which to attach one's own desires.
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Luc plays the lead character, Lawrence, in the Australian film Sucker, an adaptation of a stage show by Australian comedian Lawrence Leung, who also co-wrote the feature film.
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"People are so f—ig dumb and stupid," Kardashian West said about her husband being compared to the Oscar-winning film's lead character Chris, portrayed by actor Daniel Kaluuya.
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To be clear, she was addressing rumors that the lead superhero in the upcoming Eternals film might be gay, marking the first gay lead character in a Marvel movie.
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Peña usually delivers five or six vehicle options per lead character, and half of these options, "minimum," are convertibles, because an art director is that likely to pick one.
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Piotr Buszewski, a Polish tenor, produced much handsome tone (perhaps too much for the intimate space) as Donizetti's lead character in the second of two performances, on Sunday afternoon.
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Brittany Runs a Marathon gave actress Jillian Bell a huge opportunity: to play the lead character in a film that's both funny and more dramatic than her usual fare.
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If there is a certain looseness on the set, that might be because there are a lot of similarities between the lead character and the actor who plays him.
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Fisher excels onstage, and he delivers such a devastatingly earnest performance as the show's lead character that it's impossible to walk away from the show without a broken heart.
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The scene relies on a series of racist stereotypes to get through the song, including naming the lead character "Jim Crow," a mocking term used to insult black men.
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Lewis was coming off "Life," a decisive failure of an NBC police procedural, in which he'd played the lead character, a homicide detective with a passion for fresh fruit.
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James Cameron stole the life story of a Florida man who worked in the yacht industry and used it for the lead character of "Titanic" ... according to his lawsuit.
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And it's a black-and-white satire about yuppie New York now, and the lead character runs an agency in Williamsburg, and they're repping an augmented-reality device called Augmenta.
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That same day, season one of The Society drops on Netflix (she's the lead character — a bold, courageous, and scared shitless 17-year-old running a town of unruly teens).
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It's why, initially, black viewers lamented that the first black female lead character on network television in decades — Scandal's Olivia Pope — also happened to be the show's white president's mistress.
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The Mick — and its lead character, Kaitlin Olson's Mickey — have been described as raunchy by various outlets, though Mickey is, in most respects, a pretty harmless, and often relatable, character.
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One of the new additions in Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, which launches next week on PS4, is that its treasure hunting lead character Chloe carries a smartphone everywhere she goes.
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Trevante Rhodes, 27, Ashton Sanders, 21, and Alex R.Hibbert, 12, each played the lead character Chiron in different stages of his life, and star in the ads along with Ali.
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Bae AF. Barry is looking like the lead character in a rom-com who just got dumped by her two-timing boyfriend and stumbled into the arms of the millionaire.
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Near the very end of the The Big Lebowski, the titular lead character, a disarmingly nonchalant stoner who goes by the nickname "the Dude" (Jeff Bridges), reveals his personal credo.
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Ben Feldman voices the lead character Tyler Tuskman, a scarer who arrives to his first day at work to discover that the company had swapped to a new power source.
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This gesture is something that's often associated with Italians who are speaking adamantly and loudly, such as Don Vito Corleone in "The Godfather" or "The Sopranos" lead character, Tony Soprano.
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Like changing the lead character from Selina Kyle, a beloved character from comics, film, and TV, to Patience Phillips, an entirely new and unrelated character invented just for this movie.
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I was gripped and engaged by the journey of Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), the new series' lead character and only the second Star Trek lead who's not a captain.
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"The OA" is the creation, in more ways than one, of Brit Marling: She plays the lead character, and also wrote the show along with her frequent collaborator Zal Batmanglij.
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However, officials there had already been considering writing Mr. Tambor off the show — in which he plays the lead character, Maura Pfefferman, a transgender woman — in response to the allegations.
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Like that younger version of Waithe, the lead character, Hattie, is a 24-year-old aspiring television writer (played by the newcomer Jonica T. Gibbs, who often goes by Jojo).
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Except for one afternoon, when the lead character, Sal Frieland (cute name), played by Clive Owen, sees a striking young woman (Amanda Seyfried) whose face brings up an error message.
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I try to pick up comics when I know they have a queer lead character or are written by queer authors, like Hazel Newlevant's Sugar Town or Tillie Walden's Spinning.
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In the early 2000s, during the popular run of TV series "Sex and the City," Carrie Bradshaw, the fashion-plate lead character, accessorized her outfits with floral pins and appliqués.
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Things aren't necessarily going well for 17-year-old Sydney Novak (Sophia Lillis) when viewers first meet her as the lead character on Netflix's I Am Not Okay With This.
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The OA premiered in December 2016 and starred Marling as lead character Prairie Johnson — a blind woman who disappeared seven years prior but suddenly returned with her vision mysteriously restored.
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She is not drawn appealingly, and makes an unusual lead character — the sort of grumpy role often comfortably and even charmingly occupied by a man but rarely by a woman.
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One suggested "sermon starter" involved a scene where the lead character, played by Sandra Bullock, abruptly persuades her husband to stop their car and offer a young man a ride.
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The eagerly awaited movie features a black lead character and a predominantly black cast and has already outpaced advanced sales of all other superhero films on movie ticket site Fandango.
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Silverstone, who played the lead character "Cher," was joined by Rudd ("Josh"), Breckin Meyer ("Travis") and Donald Faison ("Murray") on a panel to talk about their now cult classic film.
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A replica of the intersection — made to look as it did in the early 1970s — appears in the film when the lead character, the housekeeper, Cleo, runs after the children.
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We're told, at one point, McGregor has a heart-to-heart with The Rock's lead character, Frank, about dating history ... and McGregor makes it very clear he isn't into ladies.
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While this approach accepts Heller's indictment of the institutions, it rejects the author's emancipation of the lead character, instead sending YoYo on the Kafka-esque track of neverending air missions.
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Is it possible that the combination of the show's real-time format and lead character played by star-in-the-making Corey Hawkins will yield a hit show worth watching?
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Most of the protagonists had a couple of very close friends whom they could rely on to point out that they were actually in love with the other lead character.
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The most iconic scene of American Psycho features the lead character Patrick Bateman investigating the business card of rival investment banker Paul Allen and boiling in barely contained envy and rage.
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Shum will play Charlie Wu, the former flame of Astrid Young Teo (played by Gemma Chan), cousin of lead character Nick Young, in "China Rich Girlfriend," which is currently pre-production.
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After initially releasing the board game without a token for The Force Awakens' lead character Rey, Hasbro promised outraged fans it would include the character in subsequent editions of the game.
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Ben Feldman voices the lead character Tyler Tuskman, a scarer who arrives to his first day at work to discover that the company had swapped from scream power to laugh power.
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Oh — and I am legally obligated to say her full name, Canada's Own Sandra Oh — plays the lead character in Killing Eve, and Willmore's essay explores her journey to getting there.
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Others are more important, like the way the lead character will point his weapon at whatever enemy is being targeted, a natural way of showing who or what you're aiming at.
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And then there's the lead character — not a captain, but a first officer, and one who may or may not make the right decisions when she's repeatedly faced with tough choices.
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In the original 1977 Star Wars film, the lead character was desperate to leave his home planet of Tatooine, where his family farmed moisture from the atmosphere using devices called "vaporators".
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Rogue One is too busy sprinting into the Star Wars mythology to make Jyn worth caring about—despite Jones's best efforts we are stuck with a placeholder as our lead character.
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The character is an integral part of the Batman literary mythos and is the lead character in "Gotham," Fox's take on Gordon's early days, where he is played by Ben McKenzie.
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Scarlett Johansson has decided to back out of the film "Rub and Tug" after receiving some serious criticism for taking the role of the lead character ... who is a transgender person.
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In the Tony-award winning musical "Evita," the lead character Eva Peron famously sings the song "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina," imploring her fellow citizens not to mourn her impending death.
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Mr. Atkins likens it to the moment in "Rosemary's Baby" where the lead character, played by Mia Farrow, looks into the cradle at her devil child and decides to love it.
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On Buffalo Bill, a quirky sitcom that premiered in 2400, lead character Jo-Jo White (Joanna Cassidy) becomes pregnant and, in a two-parter called "Jo Jo's Problem," has an abortion.
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"I know I'm not an ordinary 10-year-old kid," says Auggie (Jacob Tremblay), the lead character of "Wonder," as we see him standing on his bed wearing an astronaut's helmet.
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Then "Stronger" rushes through what screenwriting gurus call the "redemptive arc," with little concern for just how its lead character makes the life changes that enable him to face his responsibilities.
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A review of the movie Knocked Up calls lead character Ben "a La-Z-Boy in human form," an image helpfully illustrated by artist Benedikt Notter in a NSFW Instagram post.
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It stars "The Theory of Everything" actress Felicity Jones as lead character Jyn Erso, whose rogue streak is introduced in the short trailer when a authoritative voice lists her various crimes.
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His lead character is a Syrian refugee, Hashem al-Souki, who makes a harrowing boat trip from Egypt to Italy, navigates Europe by foot and rail, and seeks asylum in Sweden.
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Take the lead character of The Player of Games who, bored with success and safety, travels to a far scarier part of the galaxy and risks death and dismemberment in the process.
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It's a good trailer, showing off some of the characters, including Commander Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) who in a series first will be a lead character who isn't a Starfleet captain.
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Lead character Eileen "Candy" Merrell (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a sex worker who's savvy enough to work on her own and protect herself, free of any pimps managing her time or cash flow.
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Elle Fanning is lending her voice to the lead character Félicie while Nat Wolff voices Victor, Félicie's best friend at the orphanage who decides to leave with her and go to Paris.
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The only notable exception is Avery Brooks, who played Captain Benjamin Sisko, who was arguably the lead character on the series, but who doesn't seem to have signed on for the project.
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As the lead character in Ocean's 8, the star-studded, all-female reboot of the heist franchise, Sandra Bullock is well-versed in both the secrecy and the fanfare surrounding the film.
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The Rhythm Section is the first of four novels by Burnell featuring Stephanie Patrick as the lead character — so if the movie does well, it could be a huge franchise for Lively.
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There's a version of this story by Gimple, one less indebted to the comics, that functions as a raw examination of the show's lead character, long the big void at its center.
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He says he has been told that the Nissan Juke, a mini-SUV, looks not unlike Monkey D. Luffy, a piratical lead character with a large grin in Japanese anime "One Piece".
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Not the Grahams, who just wanted Charlie to have a nice time at a party, and not the audience, who were primed by the marketing to see Charlie as a lead character.
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The only other lead character is Emmett (John Gallagher Jr. from The Newsroom), another survivor stuck in the bunker with the pair that adds some complexity to the family dynamic that evolves.
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Marvel Comics came under fire for making the lead character of its latest movie "Captain Marvel" a woman - even though he was male in the comic series the film is based on.
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Industrial Light & Magic's immersive entertainment division is looking to some major Hollywood talent to create its next Star Wars virtual reality experience, and the lead character is as big as it gets.
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Damon told GQ last month that James Cameron offered him 10% of the 2009 film's profits if he played the lead character, Jake Sully, a role that eventually went to Sam Worthington.
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"Impressively photographed and perkily paced, Jason Filiatrault's story never droops quite as much as its lead character, injecting a welcome poignancy that tempers the cuteness," Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in her Times review.
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When the first trailer for Star Wars: Rogue One premiered, some (predominantly male) fans were upset that Rogue One will be the second consecutive Star Wars movie with a female lead character.
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We've learned basically nothing of the show's lead character though, and until we do, I'm gonna be a little concerned about how well it can operate around a man wearing a mask.
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The film stars Amandla Stenberg as lead character Starr Cater, a teen who is growing up in a poor, primarily black neighborhood but attends an affluent prep school with mostly white peers.
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It was to be called "The Five Doctors," and he was asked to come up with a story that would include all five incarnations of the lead character up to that point.
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The filmmaker's craft is particularly apparent in one key scene where the lead character, Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio), is being chased by members of the Arikara tribe and escapes into a freezing river.
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The lawsuit comes after Amazon, one of the United States' largest companies, was lauded by civil rights groups for their drama "Transparent," one of the first series to feature a transgender lead character.
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This is a comic-book movie in which the lead character is a neurosurgeon/magician who after a car accident discovers the ability to conjure up all the "mystical entities" of the universe.
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Nerve doesn't fall into these gendered tropes; in a daring game that's supposed to be as ubiquitous as Pokémon Go, everything is on the line for its lead character Vee, played by Roberts.
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Majolie created the lead character for a Disney short called "Elmer Elephant," in which poor, sweet Elmer is bullied by the other animals until he proves his usefulness through a trunk-mediated rescue.
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The main characters will be voiced by Law & Order's Benjamin Bratt, Mozart in the Jungle's Gael García Bernal, Weeds' Renée Victor, and young newcomer Anthony Gonzales, who will play the lead character, Miguel.
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"I'm thrilled to be able to give back to an audience that I've borrowed so much from," said Wainaina, who is the show's composer, music director and also plays the lead character Monkey.
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The ball, in turn, will get so rotund that it will roll directly onto the game's lead character, who has been idly dozing in a cardboard box the whole time but finally awakens.
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On one milestone, Bell purchased an original copy of The Adventurers by Harold Robbins (Shepard was named after the lead character in the novel) and had loved ones write messages in the book.
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The "Breaking Bad" star Anna Gunn plays the lead character, a top female investment banker fighting to keep her firm in the lead on an initial public offering for a Silicon Valley startup.
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Still, its lead character Miss Price (Angela Lansbury) is a motorbike-driving spinster who can't ride a broom side-saddle but can use her bed to take people to far-off fantasy lands.
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"She is diverse, that is the way she is written," the network's entertainment president, Glenn Geller, told The Hollywood Reporter of the lead character in the new Nancy Drew series, currently in development.
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What made it an even more groundbreaking moment in pop culture was that her character, Ellen Morgan, on her sitcom Ellen came out with her, becoming the first gay lead character on television.
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Making the lead character of a full animated feature gay, however, would do worlds of good to making young people feel accepted by their peers — as so many people on Twitter are saying.
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But when Simensky left Nickelodeon to work at Cartoon Network, "any project of hers at Nickelodeon that smelled like her died," Pepper Ann's lead character designer, Tom Warburton, says in a phone interview.
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The candidates who win presidential elections in the TV era (Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Mr. Trump) tend to be the ones who make themselves the lead character of that ongoing serial.
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"My Dead Boyfriend" desperately tries to look and sound like a quirky indie hit, but that's not an achievable goal when you have an unlikable lead character indifferently rendered by a name star.
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Co-written by Jeff Baena, who also directed, the film starts like your typical indie comedy, with sweet humor and a quirky lead character who does indeed love horses and makes friendship lanyards.
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He was so mad after the chief made the "Kunta" comment, a reference to the lead character in Alex Haley's "Roots," that he stormed out of the station to his car, he said.
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Forty of the top 100 films in 33 featured a female as a lead character, the highest number since tracking began 12 years earlier, according to University of Southern California's Annenberg Inclusion Initiative.
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See for yourself: The Tomb Raider video game reboot has been largely praised for retaining the series's strong and smart female lead character, while shedding the franchise's instinct to objectify her at every opportunity.
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There was Mary Jane Paul (Gabrielle Union), the lead character on BET's Being Mary Jane, who, like Olivia, started the series as both a career woman and having an affair with a married man.
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The fact that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson plays lead character Spencer Strasmore — a retired NFL player that is trying to regain his footing (and wealth) in player management — is enough for me to watch.
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Jeremiah's prophecy Anytime someone "pretending" to have The Sight shows up on television expect for every single thing they say to be utter nonsense… except for their final, ominous warning to the lead character.
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"I think that there's potential to know more about these characters and I think that there are good stories to be told," Minnette, who plays lead character Clay, told EW before the renewal announcement.
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This follow-up to the Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth is actually a better movie — it plays like a political thriller, is beautifully shot and has real-world stakes — with a better lead character.
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While Tambor continues to deny the allegations, he told Deadline that he does not want to continue working on "Transparent," where he portrays lead character Maura Pfefferman, because of "the politicized atmosphere" on set.
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This means Carl, the son of lead character Rick Grimes, is either going to turn into a zombie himself or die before he has the chance to turn, a shocking end to Carl's story.
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When gamemakers began working on the lead character for "Tomb Raider" in 1993, they envisioned a guy with a whip and a hat; his resemblance to Indiana Jones, however, soon made them switch gears.
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Since the day Scarlett Johansson was cast as Motoko Kusanagi, the cyborg and lead character of Ghost in the Shell, the film has been criticized for its whitewashing and erasure of its Japanese roots.
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Reynolds's swagger made Lewis the most magnetic character in the movie, even though Jon Voight was technically the lead character and Lewis spends much of the film's second half hobbled by a broken leg.
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Our lead character (Mirai) utilizes an advanced diving suit that can help her bring human dexterity and intuition to complement the power of the technology and enable players to explore with a human lens.
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The Netflix film opens with a jarring introduction to its lead character, a Swedish expat living in Japan named Lucy Fly (Alicia Vikander), who is currently under investigation for the disappearance of her friend.
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It's a constant and curious theme for a movie whose lead character has such a relentless, voracious sexual appetite, every moment of potential intimacy between Austin and a woman continually undercut with adolescent distraction.
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Not only did it bring us the shocking hand-to-your-mouth death of lead character Hank (Dean Norris), but it also involved Walt's heart-wrenching betrayal to his former student Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul).
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Katie Stevens, who plays lead character Jane Sloane and appears in every scene featuring Mia, explains exclusively to Refinery29 just how careful The Bold Type was when approaching a storyline similar to Sulkowicz's actual life.
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The movie version switches things up by moving the action to suburban New York, but one thing remained the same: the tortured complexity of its lead character, an alcoholic divorcée named Rachel, played by Blunt.
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Today, it revealed some key casting: Star Trek star John Cho will play the lead character Spike Siegel, a bounty hunter who travels the solar system with his partner Jet Black (played by Mustafa Shakir).
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Midway through Paterson, Jim Jarmusch's lovely tribute to finding the poetic beauty in everyday life, lead character Paterson (yes, that's his name, and he's played by Adam Driver) stops to talk to a young girl.
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When the art team at Swedish studio Dice sat down to redesign Faith, the iconic lead character of Mirror's Edge, for the upcoming reboot, it came up with a set of principles that defined her.
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Let's rewind all the way past you being BFFs with Lana [Condor, who plays lead character Lara Jean in Netflix's To All the Boys I've Loved Before adaptation], all the way back to little Jenny.
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DeGeneres's name was being dragged through the mud endlessly by members of the religious right, and still she persisted with her plan to make her character the first gay lead character in American TV history.
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In the interim, Congress had prohibited same-sex marriage with the Defense of Marriage Act, and ABC had cancelled Ellen a year after its lead character, played by Ellen DeGeneres, announced she was a lesbian.
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There's [a secondary character on] "The Bold Type," there's a queer Muslim character on "American Gods," but as a lead character who is number one on the call sheet — that's what I want to see.
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In another passage, they find themselves fighting with studio executives who want them to reshoot a scene from "Cyrus," because they feel the apartment of its lead character — a depressed divorcé — needs more throw pillows.
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But now, Robin Wright's Claire Underwood, who began as the icy partner in skulduggery to Mr. Spacey's Frank before seeming to eclipse him at the end of last season, would be the sole lead character.
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Back home, a widowed sister and sick nephew — trying gamely to humanize a paper-thin lead character — stare at the sky and wonder why Uncle Will is never around long enough to tell them anything.
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As the lead character, Rae plays the complicated but lovable character Issa (hey, when it's your show, you make the rules), and she clumsily navigates life and love with the help of her closest friends.
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Mr. Ahmed, a British actor of Pakistani descent, has slipped into several American roles, including the lead character, Nasir, on HBO's series "The Night Of," and a philandering surfing instructor on "Girls," also on HBO.
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In an interview with Broadly, Ahrens recalls writing "Journey to the Past" to express the excitement of the film's lead character, Anya, as she set out on the adventure to finding the truth about her family.
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But when we wrote the first scene, which had the lead character at his shop in Karol Bagh where he sells knock-offs of designer lehengas (traditional Indian skirt), we knew it had to be him.
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But when we wrote the first scene, which had the lead character at his shop in Karol Bagh where he sells knock-offs of designer lehengas (traditional Indian skirt), we knew it had to be him.
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It marks the first time a network show will feature a lead character who uses an augmentative and alternative communication system (or AAC, as speech-language pathologists call it) instead of oral speech to express themselves.
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The Oscar-winning ode to inter-species romance and its lead character has all the makings of the perfect eye-grabbing costume and has inspired countless cosplay tutorials and at least one cheeky late night skit.
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Though Fresh Off the Boat served as her big break, Wu burst onto the scene as a movie star this summer when she played lead character Rachel Chu in the hit romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians.
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Blair Witch picks up years after the events of the first film when one of its characters discovers footage that appears to show Heather Donahue, his long-lost sister and lead character of the original film.
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Todd: One of the most important things Handmaid's Tale had to do in season two was pick a second lead character, an alternate protagonist it could turn to when June's story was in a holding pattern.
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Law enforcement sources told TMZ that several hundred actors were gathered to film a scene with Téa Leoni, who plays lead character Elizabeth McCord, a former CIA analyst and political science professor turned Secretary of State.
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It looks true to the original art created by PA's Mike Krahulik, and the CG robots (including the lead character, portrayed by Doug Jones of Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy fame) blend interestingly with the human actors.
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Shanehall was one such person, who I stumbled across dressed up as a sexy version of Sora, the lead character from the popular RPG franchise that combines Final Fantasy and Disney characters into one strange universe.
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If a single glance at the cover of Left Alive summons a sense of familiarity and history, that might be because it is graced by the art of Yoji Shinkawa, Metal Gear Solid's lead character designer.
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In a mid-season episode of David Makes Man, the new Oprah Winfrey Network drama that explores the emotional volume of black teenhood and the gnawing effects of trauma, lead character David (Akili McDowell) encounters calamity.
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Utilizing both the HoloLens headset and live actors, it will attempt to put viewers into the eyes of lead character David Haller (Dan Stevens), a diagnosed schizophrenic who discovers he may actually be a superpowerful mutant instead.
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In the climax, the lead character Adelaide (Lupita Nyong'o) finds herself trying to outrun and outsmart her look-a-like, Red, only to find out there is an entire population of people's doppelgängers living in underground tunnels.
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On the British comedy Chewing Gum, lead character Tracey is a sexually frustrated, 24-year-old evangelical Christian who decides she's done with waiting to have sex — another twenty-something virgin with a sex drive and agency.
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Discovery will differ from previous installments of the franchise in that the ship's captain will not be the lead character of the series; the show's protagonist will instead be a lieutenant commander played by Sonequa Martin-Green.
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Its lead character is a witty, kickass detective with superpowers who faces down misogyny in ways big (snapping the neck of a villain who tells her and other women to "smile") and small (calling out rape culture).
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Bollywood's first mainstream romantic comedy with a lesbian lead character - "Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga" meaning "When I Saw That Girl, I Felt" - is being hailed as a gamechanger ahead of its release next month.
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The action would not match as clearly as if they, say, tied a bunch of cameras onto a tiger and let it loose to fight the stuntmen on set, as lead character artist Jonas Skoog jokingly suggested.
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My friend pointed out how lead character Paige Townsen is sorry for well, everything, from her BFF Cassie's personal decision to work as a topless maid to her dad's poorly-placed disappointment in his daughter's acting success.
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"Allure," a new film from Canada written and directed by the brothers Carlos and Jason Sanchez, introduces its lead character, Laura, as a damaged person, and then sometimes teases the viewer about how she got that way.
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So while Grease is built on Sandy and Danny's romance, neither is interesting enough alone to be all that compelling as a lead character — especially when there's a candidate with a much better story arc right there.
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If Stephanie hews a little too predictably to her typology as the now obligatory B.F.F.-with-moxie, she lends a welcome propulsive fizz to a novel that, emulating its fey lead character, perpetually threatens to go nowhere.
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The book follows Booth as the lead character in a night out that goes from bad to worse, devolving quickly from a visit to an art gallery to her spending a night in jail for a DUI.
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"These movies were the ones that we picked because each has a lead character who goes through a breakup and becomes a better version of themselves in it, so they went with the story more," said Grande.
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Both series are prequel series that focus on a female lead character, both will air exclusively on a streaming platform, and both mark the return, in series form, of a beloved science fiction franchise after a lengthy hiatus.
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"Peter Ramsey, a Black man who is one of the three directors of it, working on a film with a Black lead character Miles Morales—that is really the start of a renaissance in animation," she tells Broadly.
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Starman—Over the course of this book's run, the lead character develops the kind of strong but complicated relationship with his father that most sons only dream of, and becomes a father himself, with the sacrifices that implies.
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But it still faces an unshakeable controversy of Scarlett Johansson playing Motoko Kusanagi, the cyborg and lead character, and whether the role should have gone to an Asian or Asian-American actor since the story is inherently Japanese.
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And Gypsy adds an intriguing layer of sexuality, wherein its lead character has a husband and child out in the suburbs — but she can't resist being drawn into the orbit of a younger woman whom she finds intoxicating.
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I sat down with her to talk about how she tackled writing Inferno Squad, working with the video game designers, and why the lead character, Iden Versio, brings a new level of complexity to the Star Wars Universe.
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A lead character on the Freeform network's latest hit, the promising young social media editor was describing a story she wanted published—but the dialogue doubles as a list of reasons why The Bold Type is so exciting.
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This includes the "Magical Congress of the USA (MACUSA)," which the lead character, Newt Scamander, visits; an underground speakeasy "The Blind Pig;" and the "magical apartment of Tina and Queenie Goldstein," other key characters in the new movie.
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To avoid having to build a replica of the "Tootsie" set, Holmes had Stiles sing in front of a green screen, and the apartment belonging to Michael Dorsey, the Broadway show's gender-bending lead character, was recreated digitally.
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She's a lead character on "DC Super Hero Girls," an animated web series, and can be seen in the new video game Batman: Arkham Underworld (one of more than a dozen games she has appeared in since 1994).
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The movie embraces a wide variety of tones, shifting between comedy and horror and drama; by the end, it's a thriller about whether its lead character will escape the life she had the misfortune of being born into.
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"It's like we lift up the curtain to a place that nobody talks about," said Mr. Raz, who once served in Duvdevan, an elite commando force known for posing as Arabs, and plays the lead character, Doron Kavillio.
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It's a nod to the mutant X-Gene that empowers the show's lead character, David Haller (played by Dan Stevens), a man who, after years of being told he was schizophrenic, discovers that he possesses formidable telepathic abilities.
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We wanted to take our lead character on a journey, and so in order to take her on a journey, she couldn't have already achieved all her goals and finished all the wants and needs in her life.
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And you're probably familiar with the eleventh hour reveal in Dodgeball (20th Century Fox): Kate, a lead character, is perceived to be straight until the end of the film, where she engages in a girl-on-girl kiss.
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Bachchan admitted that he was paid less than his co-star Deepika Padukone in the movie "Piku" since she was the lead character -- a bold revelation from the man who is idolised by a nation of a billion people.
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Right from the start, the game assumes you care about the lead character, whom you don't know anything about, as it sends him into a dizzying series of events that kicks off with him blindly killing his own sister.
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And in the live-action American film adaptation of the manga series Ghost in the Shell, scheduled for next year, the lead character, Major Motoko Kusanagi, will be called Major and played by Scarlett Johansson in a black bob.
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By season 12, she's been a little hardened by life (or, specifically, by the kind of life a lead character on a Rhimes drama must have), and through age, experience, and talent, she's now in a position of power.
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As the play's lead character, Jenny March, Lenore — in a nice bit of symmetry — plays a pregnant boarding school student who communicates with the ghost of a dead girl named Eleanor who comes to visit her late at night.
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Like Reitman, Vigalondo has no interest in the trite "struggling city person finds healing in the slow pace of a small town" tropes, and no interest in softening his lead character into rote likability when he could make her distinctive instead.
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If he's anything like the lead character from the book, this should be one of Hanks' more ambitious roles, an outcast and offshoot of a global economy that is quickly turning against people like him … and making him increasingly desperate.
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It's an obvious starting point, but Mirror's Edge's Faith has been one of the most celebrated examples of lead-character diversity, despite the predictable affront at the lack of overt sexuality from the darker corners of message boards across the world.
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Olivia Wilde Although queer teenage characters have become much more commonplace on TV over the past two decades, it wasn't until last year that a mainstream, wide-release teen movie — the romantic comedy Love, Simon — featured a gay lead character.
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It's impossible to discuss Transparent's legacy without confronting the problem of Jeffrey Tambor, who won an Emmy for playing Maura Pfefferman, the series' lead character: a well-to-do former UCLA professor who transitions from male to female late in life.
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DeGeneres, who voices the movie's lead character, said she doesn't know if the women are actually lesbians, though she doesn't mind the question "I don't know if she is or if she just has a bad, short haircut," DeGeneres joked.
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The 48-year-old stars as Sharon Rivers, the mother of lead character Tish (Kiki Layne), who is expecting a baby with her boyfriend Alonzo "Fonny" Hunt in the drama, based on James Baldwin's 1974 novel of the same name.
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It starts out looking like a standard haunted house thriller with the lead character visiting the orphanage where she grew up and finding it haunted by a creepy little apparition that tells her young son horrible things, and pulls terrible pranks.
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Today, Square Enix revealed that anyone who purchases the game on Steam, from now until May 1st, will get an in-game costume so that you can dress up lead character Noctis as the bespectacled star of the Half-Life series.
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"This is going to be much more dark, much more emotional," Raz, who also plays Fauda's tortured lead character, told Reuters at a dusty, smoke-wreathed underground Tel Aviv power plant repurposed to look like a Hamas tunnel and bunker network.
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While the installment is technically about the fact lead character Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) is up for a career-making Harper Avery Award — think the Oscars, but for doctors — the episode's real aim to pull as many fan heartstrings as possible.
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" Mexico's Alfonso Cuaron, who won the directing, cinematography and foreign film prizes for his film "Roma," thanked the Academy in his speech for recognizing a film with a lead character "that has historically been relegated to the background of cinema.
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How the leading lieutenant commander fits into a much larger ensemble cast Fuller revealed that the lead character would be a different type of character than starship captains like James Kirk, Jonathan Archer, Benjamin Sisko, Kathryn Janeway, or Jean-Luc Picard.
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"We are excited to come on board as producers on an ABC music driven, Latino family drama that celebrates Selena's musical legacy with a lead character whose music and career is inspired by Selena," Selena's sister Suzette Quintanilla Arriaga said.
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There wasn't a hook like Snow White's decapitated head on the steps of Bigby Wolf's apartment block, or the sudden murder of what looked like being a lead character at the climax of the first episode of Telltale's Game of Thrones.
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This movie's lead character, Cheung Tin-chi, is based on an actual person who was so thoroughly fictionalized in "Ip Man 3" (2016) that here he can roam free in a made-up story set in a fanciful period Hong Kong.
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WM: An amazing thing about puppeteers that I don't think everyone understands is that they can play the lead on a character, a big part on a lead character, and then in the next shot, they're someone else's left hand.
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Until the Trump presidency became a reality, the main order of business in any review of "24: Legacy" would have been to assess whether the franchise is still viable without Jack Bauer, Kiefer Sutherland's memorable counterterrorism operative, as its lead character.
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Inspired by the lead character of a monologue with the same name, Fleabag's character is a narcissistic, horny, dynamic, intelligent, and totally reckless adult — with shades of all of us, yes us, infused into her extremely chaotic-yet-relatable psyche.
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The Dirty Computer singer will use her pipes to scream in terror (or make us scream) as the lead character of the upcoming horror flick Antebellum, and from the looks of the film's trailer, it's going to be an actual nightmare.
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I saw it recently and the lead character, Howard Beale, articulated exactly what is happening now, for good or not so good: "I feel vivid and flashing, as if suddenly I'd been plugged into some great electromagnetic field," he says.
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And as in his first film, the scarily accomplished and provocative "Son of Saul" (2015), which took place in a German death camp (and which Jakab also acted in), the camera most frequently follows its lead character around from behind.
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However, a Queensland company fell short here, with a recent Brisbane production of the musical sparking outrage about the number of white performers, including the casting of the show's lead character, Usnavi de la Vega, a Dominican immigrant originally played by Miranda himself.
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In addition, he's co-writing an action comedy for Dreamworks titled Ex-Criminals (in which he'd also star) and he voices the lead character in this summer's The Emoji Movie as well as in 2019's How to Train Your Dragon 3.
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Their political commentary lacked the bite that others provided (Samantha Bee calling the news her favorite show and suggesting Robin Wright take over as lead character), and the highlight of the gig for Che was easily his "Reparations Emmys" bit, which was prerecorded.
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The friendship between a middle-aged man and a young girl is at the heart of "Lamb," a drama from the director Ross Partridge, who also stars as the lead character David Lamb, and adapted the screenplay from the novel by Bonnie Nadzam.
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Just as Thelma focuses on the human consequences of its lead character learning about her supernatural powers, the film also zeroes in on the human consequences of her accepting she has those powers — and what difficult choices she must make because of them.
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The story — both in the novel and in Netflix's small-screen rendering — is inspired by '80s and '90s teen rom-coms such as Dirty Dancing, Say Anything, 10 Things I Hate About You, and The Breakfast Club (lead character Lara's personal favorite).
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Pitch, Fox's new show about a Black woman who is a starting pitcher for an MLB team, confronts that feeling a lot — its lead character isn't embraced by the hyper-masculine universe of the MLB, and her teammates won't let her forget it.
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Bohemian Rhapsody brought the story of LGBTQ icon Freddy Mercury to audiences around the world, many of whom never saw an out and proud lead character in a film or saw the impact of HIV and AIDS in fair and accurate ways.
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Hardcore Henry is somewhere between video game and cinematic dare: it's an action movie shot entirely from the first-person perspective of its eponymous lead character, who wakes up in a strange lab with no memory and a series of cybernetic upgrades.
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Most notable is 20-year-old Australian actress Katherine Langford, who took on the intimidating role of Hannah Baker, the lead character whose death by suicide is a catalyst to events in her high school and a group of her former friends.
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It starts to dawn on viewers that lead character Ruth (Alison Brie) is pregnant during episode 8, "Maybe It's All The Disco," when the rest of the Glow women confirm their menstrual cycles have synced up after spending so much time together.
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It shares the "ripped from the headlines" hustle of the original, but both because its breakout lead character is a woman — Detective Olivia Benson, played by Mariska Hargitay — and because of its subject matter, it has cultivated a different, less conservative image.
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But it's also a movie where the inner life of its lead character is expressed through the dresses he designs, giving costume designer Mark Bridges the opportunity to not just create beautiful garments, but to contribute to shaping Woodcock's character through his creations.
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The Night Of In the recap for last week's episode, I wrote about how Naz's acclimation to prison life mirrored that of the lead character in the French drama "A Prophet," which tracks a young convict's rise from helpless naïf to jailhouse kingpin.
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It is in the same family as Basic Instinct for exploring the outer edges of sexuality in a mainstream movie, Road House for self-aware cheesiness, and Clueless for having a lead character whose comedic turn makes the rest of the script bearable.
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Most of the controversy revolves around the fact that the film implies that the lead character, Marlo, beautifully portrayed by Charlize Theron, may have postpartum depression or postpartum psychosis — yet the film fails to acknowledge this explicitly or depict the character seeking treatment.
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I think a lot about the time, in 2013, that I sat in a car with Olivia Chow — a politician little known in America but renowned enough in Canada to have been portrayed as a lead character in a bad TV movie.
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In separate phone interviews, Aldis Hodge, who plays the lead character, Noah, and the musician John Legend, an executive producer, talked about what they learned during the making of "Underground," and how the current TV landscape led to the unlikely show's existence.
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In a 1991 episode of "Murphy Brown," the lead character, craving a quote from President George H. W. Bush on the latest health care debacle, decides to catch up with him on his morning jog by furiously pedaling a 3-speed bike.
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" As a boy in Ayr, Ontario, a village of no more than 250 residents at the time, McDonald was told by his friends that his father bore a striking resemblance to Jiggs, the lead character of the popular comic strip "Bringing Up Father.
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Midway through the movie, when the lead character, a Kentucky college student named Sawyer (Hermione Corfield), finds herself trapped in a trailer with Lowell (Jay Paulson), a hinky meth cook, her slow transition from suspicion to trust is accomplished with near-subliminal sensitivity.
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Lucas Hnath's A Dolls House, Part 21971 imagines what would happen if Nora Helmer — the lead character in Ibsen's 1879 groundbreaking feminist play – returns to the same house she fled 15 years ago, to see what's left of her husband and children she left behind.
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While watching To the Bone, an upcoming Netflix film directed by Marti Noxon and starring Lily Collins (which premiered at Sundance earlier this year and sold to the streaming network for a massive $8 million), I immediately saw my friend in the lead character.
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The three-stage project, named Simba after the lead character in "The Lion King," could link up with beachheads in several countries on the continent's eastern, western and Mediterranean coasts, though the exact route and number of landings is in flux, the people said.
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IOWA CITY — When Hannah Horvath, the lead character of the hit HBO series "Girls," arrived in Iowa during the show's fourth season, the Brooklyn transplant was struck by the quietude, the cheap real estate and the fresh produce that is pervasive in America's heartland.
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"It was very important for Bill and for me in telling the story, and in portraying what's essentially a romantic lead character, to have the sensitivity in that close-up to preserve the eyes which are the last human element of the Beast," he says.
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The effect is close to Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes, a game that set out to serve as a short prologue that players can nonetheless replay hundreds of times, but the rebooted Hitman is most like its lead character — capable, cold, and already efficient.
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And the whole cast got together with Lily James — who starred as a young version of Meryl Streep's lead character, Donna, from the original — and Jessica Keenan Wynn (young Christine Baranski) to watch the finale of the British reality show Love Island last month.
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One day, Cassie gets wind of an open audition for the role of August Roch (not to be confused with August Rush), the lead character in a super popular book series, Locked, and suggests that she and Paige go audition just for shits and giggles.
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The Good Place started out Season 3 by introducing Simone, a smart and well-matched black love interest for lead character Chidi Anagonye and completely phased her out in favor of pairing Chidi with Eleanor, who may or may not be his "real" soulmate.
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I think of it as sort of two emotions, excitement and pride, to be able to be one of the voices that get to bring a character like this into our living rooms at the forefront of a TV show, as the lead character.
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"Bohemian Rhapsody brought the story of LGBTQ icon Freddy Mercury to audiences around the world, many of whom never saw an out and proud lead character in a film or saw the impact of HIV and AIDS in fair and accurate ways," GLAAD said.
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He strongly felt the need, he said, to visit the world of drug cartel violence through a woman's eyes: Already an accomplished professional, the lead character was trying to hold her own, and be morally upright alongside mercenaries in a shadowy, quasi-legal world.
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In the 1995 film "The Shawshank Redemption" the lead character Andy Dufresne makes an epic escape from his prison cell by digging a tunnel through the wall of his cell, which he covers using posters of female actresses Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe and Raquel Welch.
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Sent by his persecuted parents to stay with an elderly woman in the desolate countryside of an unnamed country, the lead character, known simply as The Boy, soon finds himself alone when she dies and he sets off on foot to find safety elsewhere.
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Sent by his persecuted parents to stay with an elderly woman in the desolate countryside of an unnamed country, the lead character, known simply as The Boy, soon finds himself alone when she dies and he sets off on foot to find safety elsewhere.
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Meanwhile, the abduction of a 24-year-old female executive from Uttar Pradesh made headlines across India after it emerged she'd been followed for a year by a serial stalker obsessed with 1993 Indian thriller Darr, in which the lead character obsessively pursues a woman.
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The producers, led by Richie Jackson, said they will mount a national tour, starting next fall at the Center Theater Group in Los Angeles, starring Mr. Urie, who is winning plaudits for his performance as the lead character, Arnold Beckoff, in the Broadway production.
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Qassim Suleimani, the commander of the Revolutionary Guards' elite Quds Force, is the scourge of the West, making him the perfect lead character in the computer animated, 90-minute feature film "Battle of the Persian Gulf," which arrived in cinemas in Iran this year.
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BB is part equipment, part character; it remains helplessly trapped in a sci-fi jar, where it both bonds with Death Stranding's lead character Sam, and also serves as a tool that alerts him to deadly, ghostly apparitions that are largely invisible to humans.
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Trump posted on Twitter Saturday that he was looking "so forward to being with my great friends in INDIA!" while retweeting a clip from the popular movie Baahubali showing himself as the lead character and savior, riding on a chariot with the first lady.
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Aside from 221's Ms. Pac-Man and a twist ending of Nintendo's 1986 game Metroid that revealed the lead character to have been a woman all along, major game franchises basically didn't have playable female characters as their leads at that point in the medium's history.
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Along with Issa Rae ("Insecure"), Donald Glover ("Atlanta") and Aziz Ansari ("Master of None"), Ms Waithe, who is 33, is part of a generation of young writers, directors and producers who are toppling traditional ideas about what a lead character should look like and which stories appeal.
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The show uses makeup to ensure the characters look like people who are going through some serious shit — people who have barely slept, people who've been drinking all day, and yes, people who self harm, including the show's lead character Camille Preaker, who's played by Amy Adams.
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In I Love You, Daddy, the new movie written (with Vernon Chatman), directed by, and starring Louis C.K., our lead character Glen has an enormous poster in his office that reveals exactly who his biggest idol is: a filmmaker named Leslie Goodwin (played by John Malkovich).
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The makers of Mario mightn't seem likely bedfellows for a game featuring a bucket-load of blood and guts and gratuitous profanity—not to mention a lead character whose own hair is her outfit, and can be temporarily shed to form weapons—but here we are.
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The lead character of 2004'sSaving Face, by Chinese-American filmmaker Alice Wu, struggles to come out to her family even as she falls for the woman of her dreams because of the Chinese notion of "face," which describes both your own and your family's social standing.
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" While Bonacorso's alien projects serenity, the humans' perplexity at his aloofness plays out in two narratives, one of empathy in the lead character, and another of defensiveness with a retired military official who states, "Peace and quiet can generally be judged as ongoing, covert enemy action.
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One day, Cassie gets wind of an open audition for the role of August Roch (not to be confused with the classic, August Rush), the lead character in a super popular book series, Locked, and suggests that she and Paige go audition just for shits and giggles.
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In seeing himself in these terms, Trump recalls Walter Mitty, the nebbish lead character of James Thurber's classic 1942 story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," who keeps escaping from the everyday drudgeries by imagining himself as a brain surgeon, wartime pilot, and other heroic pursuits.
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Arts | Long Island If you try to imagine a grown-up Annie, of the musical by that name, you might easily find her to be a lot like Reno Sweeney, the lead character of Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" — sassy and brassy, big-hearted and big-voiced.
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And John C. Reilly wanders off with the movie as a World War II pilot who crashed on Skull Island and knows it better than anyone, even if he seems to be playing a version of Dr. Steve Brule, the lead character of his Adult Swim show.
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" The lead character in Albert W. Aiken's 1895 dime novel "The Female Barber Detective," Mignon Lawrence, confesses to her landlady that "if I didn't shave I would have a regular mustache, and as a woman can't very well go to a barber I am compelled to shave myself.
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But, there is also the scene where Xo tells daughter and lead character Jane (Gina Rodriguez) "I'm still your mom" at a spa trip gone wrong, and the later sequence when Jane breaks her writer's block by speedily typing away about Xo's many amazing feats of radically supportive motherhood.
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While the game's third season went in a somewhat different direction, introducing a brand-new lead character, Telltale says that the final chapter will once again put players in the role of series heroine Clementine as she makes her way through the grim and grisly world of the undead.
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Similarly, the sci-fi comedy "Downsizing" engages in the white-saviour trope through the journey of its lead character, a white-collar midwesterner (Matt Damon) who utilises new technology to shrink himself and live in the luxurious Leisure Land, a micro-community, with others who have "gotten small".
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Any movie where, about 20 minutes in, the lead character says, "I think we're finally going to be okay," guarantees this is not going to happen, yet it takes Tris a good hour to figure that out while everyone in the audience is already several beats ahead of her.
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Debuting at Comic-Con, Mr. Robot VR is a 13-minute narrative experience written and directed by the auteur that takes viewers on a flashback journey with lead character Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek) as he remembers an early encounter with his dealer-turned-love-interest Shayla (Frankie Shaw).
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One of the earliest characters created by Disney is Mickey Mouse, who emerged in 223 as part of the "silent era" of film, followed by Snow White, whom Disney introduced as the lead character in his first full-length feature film, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," in 1937.
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Gift Custom Comic Book at Etsy, from $386.71If you have the means, few comic book nerds would turn down owning a detailed, beautifully designed comic book featuring them as the lead character or superhero, or a comic book version of the story of how they met their partner.
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In the 1980s the hospital was home to many of the city's AIDS patients, and it is where the lead character of the play, Prior Walter (Andrew Garfield), spends much of his time battling his illness and feverishly hallucinating about the afterworld that seems to be beckoning him.
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Actually, Sharp Objects' last few episodes have all reminded me hugely of Hereditary, which has a lot of the same ambience and themes: unhinged family dynamics layered over giant secrets and mental illness, and a lead character who's drawn into their family's spiraling madness and continual reliving of trauma.
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When Constance Wu read the best-selling novel Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan five years ago, she felt an instant connection to the lead character, Rachel Chu, a New York City economics professor who discovers her boyfriend is ultra-wealthy when she travels to Singapore to meet his family.
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Bohemian Rhapsody just marked the highest domestic box office debut to date for a movie with a queer lead character — but that doesn't change the film's bizarrely retrograde depiction of Freddie Mercury's sexuality as a force of fear and corruption that (in the film) he's constantly trying to deny or escape.
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The American-actress-turned-royal isn't the only star missing from "Suits" this season, as Patrick J. Adams – who played lead character Mike Ross – also exited the show earlier this year when the on-screen love interests played by the duo got married and moved from New York to Seattle.
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Set in Chicago and adapted for the screen by Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Susan-Lori Parks, lead character Bigger Thomas — played by Moonlight's Ashton Sanders in an understated performance — takes a life-changing step up the socioeconomic ladder when the wealthy Dalton family hires him as their full-time driver.
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DeGeneres used the movie "Finding Dory," in which she voices the lead character, to criticize Trump's immigration order after the president held a screening of the film at the White House, just one day after signing the initial executive order restricting travel for refugees and citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries.
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It was, after all, a series that topped itself after revealing that the original hero of the fictional universe was, in fact, a black man, and then topped itself again in its closing moments by teasing the possibility that its lead character, Regina King's Angela Abar, could transcend toward godhood herself.
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In the 19893 film, The Best Little Girl in the World, based on the novel by Steven Levonkron, a prominent psychiatrist of anorexia at the time as well as Karen Carpenter's doctor, the actress Jennifer Jason Leigh plays the lead character, Casey Powell, an anorexic teenaged girl who wishes to become a ballerina.
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It's used as a plot point in the original Cloverfield, where the lead character has to break into an electronics store in the middle of a monster attack to get a new battery for his phone because he ran his down trying to reach his ex-girlfriend and confirm that she's safe.
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During a Star Wars Celebration panel, writer David S. Goyer (Batman Begins, Man of Steel) joined ILM'x xLab team to announce that he's working on an original narrative VR experience that will let viewers join in and be part of the story — and the lead character is none other than Darth Vader.
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During this one, the dorky hero, Dash (yes, this is one of those films in which the creator is also its vexed but lovable lead character), chats with his best buddy, Assaf (voiced by Reggie Watts), about their work for the school paper, whose editor, Verti (Maya Rudolph), will come between the two.
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Keen will star as the lead character, Lyra, in a "big budget" series, which will start with an eight-episode run based on the first book in the trilogy, The Northern Lights, which was retitled The Golden Compass in the U.S. and made into 2007 a critical flop of a film starring Nicole Kidman.
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You may be able to rattle off dozens of memorable LGBTQ characters that have popped up on your TV screens in the last 40 years, but, shockingly, not one of them was a lead character in a 60-minute drama airing on network TV. All the more reason to remember the name Dr. Dylan Reinhart.
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With the box-office success of 2018's Love, Simon, a perfect teen romance that finally starred a gay lead character, or the upcoming Billy Eichner gay rom-com produced by Judd Apatow, there is some progress being made, but that doesn't mean straight rom-coms no longer have to be held accountable for their gay characters.
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In a recent interview with The New York Times, Gomez said she wanted to adapt author Jay Asher's YA novel Thirteen Reasons Why — the story of a young woman who commits suicide, but leaves behind 13 cassette tapes for all the people who contributed to her death — into a show because she related to the lead character.
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Lady Dynamite does this in a style that has reviewers dazzled by the breadth of shows it echoes: zany and dense with wordplay like Arrested Development, Louie-like in its experimentation and pathos, and shot through with the ghost of Strangers with Candy, arguably the only show in recent memory with a female lead character as unnerving to watch.
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On the one hand, it makes sense that the show's lead character, Tig (played by comedian Tig Notaro, who co-created the series with Diablo Cody and based it heavily on her own life), would be so reticent to leave Los Angeles and move back to her Mississippi hometown in the wake of her mother's death.
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After her starring role as Rose Tico in 2017's Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Kelly Marie Tran faced so much racial abuse and harassment from toxic fans that she deleted social media, disappearing at a time when she, the first non-white actress to play a lead character in the series, should have been celebrating.
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In fact, it was so beloved by fans that when it was canceled after just one season, they sent more than 40,000 pounds of peanuts to the CBS execs to try to change their minds — a nod to the final scene when a neighboring community demands its lead character surrenders and he says, "Nuts" — and it worked.
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