Talented actors. "Truman Show" - a fascinating tragicomedy with Jim Carrey

What film is worth seeing for the audience, who are looking for an exciting comedy drama, in which talented actors are shot? "Truman Show" is a tragicomedy that allowed the performer of the main role Jim Kerry to prove that he is good not only as a comedian. The picture was presented to the public in 1998, but it can also appeal to a modern audience. What is known about the roles and people to whom they got?

A few words about the plot

Truman Burbank is the central character of the tragicomedy "The Truman Show", the actors and roles of which are discussed in this article. Seeing the first shots, it's easy to decide that the main character is an ordinary person, living an unremarkable life. However, soon the audience will find out Truman, without knowing it himself, is a participant in the reality show, which millions watch. All people who are part of the Burbank environment are actors whose work is paid for by the creators of the show. The house and even the city where the protagonist lives are just high-quality scenery. Special technologies allow to regulate even weather conditions.

The director monitors that the life of his "ward" was in accordance with a pre-written script. From time to time there are unforeseen problems, for example, the hero falls in love not with the woman who was chosen for the role of his wife, but in the actress with a different task. However, the creators of the show quickly eliminate "technical problems". Everything changes when Truman suddenly begins to doubt the reality of the world in which he has lived for thirty years. The situation starts to get out of the director's control, but the creators of the reality show are not going to give up.

Jim Carrey and his hero

Tragicomedy could not have collected astronomical for those times amounts at the box office, if the main roles played by other actors. "The Truman Show" is a film largely due to his success to Jim Kerry, who managed to create an interesting image of a man who does not want to obey the will of the "director" of his fate.

It is known that the director of the comedy drama Peter Weir for a long time could not find the performer of the main role. He needed a man who can be interesting to viewers so that they would like to follow his life for years, and not just a charming actor. For some time he considered the candidacy of Gary Oldman, but the villain from Dracula failed to play Truman as Wier wanted. The result was Jim Carrey.

The actor himself gladly agreed to play a central character reality show, because with such a difficult role can cope with only those who have a serious dramatic talent actors. The Truman Show is a tragicomedy that showed viewers that Kerry is one of them. The script was so popular with Jim that he even agreed to a "stripped down" fee of $ 12 million.

Truman's wife

Not only Jim Carrey has decorated with his presence the film "The Truman Show", the actors and roles of which are described in the article. I liked the audience and Laura Linney, who played actress Hannah Gill, who was hired to portray the wife of the main character of the reality show Meryl Burbank.

Hannah is just a film star who plays her part. She is absolutely indifferent to Truman, does not want to give birth to his children, although the reality TV director hopes. In the program, it is withdrawn solely for the sake of money. Its main mission is to advertise products of various brands, which provides the main income of the creators of the "Truman Show". During the preparation for this role, Linney studied the catalogs of the 1950s to borrow the advertising postures that the models accept. In addition to tragicomedy, the actress can be seen in such films as "Primeval Fear", "Savages", "Kinsey".

Love of Truman

Of course, Jim Carrey and Laura Linney became stars of the tragicomedy, but other actors deserve attention. "The Truman Show" is a film that allowed Natasha McElhoun to make herself known. A few years after the release of the picture, the British actress has achieved even greater success, playing one of the main roles in the television project "Forbidden California".

Her heroine Sylvia - a girl, in which unexpectedly for the director and scriptwriters of the reality show falls in love with Burbank. Of course, the disagreeable character, who was assigned only an episodic role, is immediately eliminated from the "town" in which the transfer is filmed. However, Sylvia has time to create doubts in Truman, and then, being "free", deploys a large-scale company to release him.

Noah Emmerich and his character

Above are not all the stars of the "Truman Show", whose actors are still interested in the audience. For example, remarkably coped with his role Noah Emmerich, then still a novice actor. A short time after the tragicomedy, Noah became famous as one of the central characters in the series "The Americans".

In the movie "The Truman Show," Noah portrayed an actor who receives money for portraying Burbank's best friend. His character, Louis, is shot in a reality show from the first years of his life, sincerely attached to Truman and suffers because he is forced to deceive the "friend."

Who played Christophe?

Who else has decorated with his presence the film "The Truman Show", whose actors brilliantly coped with their tasks? Of course, Ed Harris, embodied the image of the producer Christophe, who directs the life of Truman. First, Peter Weir saw in this role, Dennis Hopper, but later found him not very charming.

Hopper was replaced by Ed Harris, who already managed to make himself known thanks to Apollo-13 and other famous paintings. In the performance of Harris, the character turned out to be an ambiguous personality with the manners of God.