Ensemble cast

First one is from Stephen Dalton of The Hollywood Reporter.

Featuring a stellar ensemble cast headed by Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant, Charlie Hunnam, Hunnam, Hunnam.

Michelle Dockery and Colin Farrell.

Richie's Homecoming is a fairly familiar affair, but also refreshingly funny and deftly plotted with more witty lines and less boorish machismo than his early work.

Uh-huh.

And then I'm like, "Oh, don't make the ensemble cast too big," 'cause I think that's when this might start to get out of control.

There is a lot already.

Mm-hmm.

Well, as can sometimes happen in anime, I imagine potentially she's a character that shows up later.

It could be a case of that.

It does seem like there's a big ensemble cast, so.

She's a bit mysterious so far, but it's got a really cool opening titles and end credits, as you might expect with an anime.

who was...

Because it's such an ensemble cast that there's nobody that's just like in a one scene thing in this.

No, everybody is always together.

Yeah, they're always like the...

And yeah, like even the movie poster, One Crazy Summer, the sun, I guess there's a couple of versions, right? With like photographs and illustration, but there's one with a sun that's like super airbrush style.

And then like the painted class photo, you know, that's like on every 80s movie that has an ensemble cast.

Um, but yeah, I mean, it's, uh, man, it's absolutely like, I remember getting the Maxell tape.

Like we had like a bank of like unused tapes and that was like the first tape I took off the shelf.

Satellite Awards nominated for Best Actor in a Drama and Best Original Song.

The Image Awards, the NAACP Image Awards, nominated for Picture, Director, Wins Best Actor, nominated for Supporting Actor for Glenn Turman, Original Score, Costume Design, Makeup, Hairstyling, and Ensemble Cast.

The Black Reel Awards nominated for Film, Lead Performance, Screenplay, Ensemble, Score, Original Song, Soundtrack, Costume Design, Hairstyling and Makeup, and Production Design, but didn't win any of those.

So it was the killers of the flower moon of the Black Reel Awards that year.

And again, I will just say this, and I know I've said it a hundred times.

I get that it's an ensemble cast.

You don't have time to pour into everybody to the same degree, but with themes like this, like they matter.

And if you're not going to have the time and effort it deserves, then maybe don't include it.

This is one of the best casts I've ever had.

I mean, I've been, and I have been super lucky in my career to have, you know, such good ensemble cast.

You know, I struck gold with the Dawson's Creek cast and I feel like this one is another example of striking gold.

There's nothing really glamorous about the audition life.

There's something special about the Vampire Diaries.

To my mind, it has done the best job of putting the vampire in high school.

It's got a great ensemble cast.

It's very well scripted, and it isn't afraid to be scary.

Schumacker's credits also include the network sitcoms Powerless and Surviving Jack, as well as iZombie, Cougar Town, and How to Be a Gentleman.

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