What kind of film is worth watching for the audience searching for an exciting comedy drama in which talented actors act in film? The Truman Show is a tragicomedy that allowed starring Jim Carrey to prove that he is good not only as a comedian. The picture was presented to the public in 1998, but it can appeal to a modern audience. What is known about the roles and the people who got them?
A few words about the plot
Truman Burbank is the central character in the tragicomedy The Truman Show, whose actors and roles are discussed in this article. Having seen the first frames, it is easy to decide that the main character is an ordinary person, living an unremarkable life. However, viewers will soon find out that Truman, without suspecting it, is a participant in a reality show that is watched by millions. All the people in Burbank’s environment are actors whose work is paid by the creators of the show. The house and even the city in which the protagonist lives are just quality decorations. Special technology allows you to adjust even the weather.
The director makes sure that the life of his “ward” goes according to a pre-written script. Unforeseen problems arise from time to time, for example, the hero falls in love not with the woman chosen for the role of his wife, but with the actress with a different task. However, the creators of the show quickly fix the "technical problems." Everything changes when Truman suddenly begins to doubt the reality of the world in which he has been living for thirty years. The situation is beginning to get out of control of the director, but the creators of the reality show are not going to give up.
Jim Carrey and his hero
Tragicomedy could not have collected at the box office astronomical for those times, if other actors played the main roles. The Truman Show is a film largely owed to its success to Jim Carrey, who managed to create an interesting image of a man who does not want to submit to 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 lead actor. He needed a man who could be so interesting to the audience that they wanted 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 did not manage to play Truman the way Weir wanted. As a result, the role received Jim Carrey.
The actor himself with pleasure agreed to play the central character of the reality show, because only actors with serious dramatic talent can cope with such a difficult role. The Truman Show is a tragicomedy that showed viewers that Kerry was one of them. Jim liked the script so much that he even agreed to a “truncated” fee of $ 12 million.
Truman's wife
Not only Jim Carrey adorned with his presence the film "The Truman Show", the actors and roles of which are described in the article. The audience also liked Laura Linney, who played the actress Hannah Gill, who was hired to portray the wife of the main character of the reality show Meryl Burbank.
Hannah is just a movie star playing her part. She is absolutely indifferent to Truman, does not want to give birth to children from him, although the director of the reality show expects this. In the transfer, she is removed solely for the sake of money. Its main mission is to advertise products of various brands, which provides the main income for the creators of the Truman Show. In preparation for this role, Linnie studied the trade catalogs of the 50s to borrow the advertising poses that the models take. In addition to the tragicomedy, the actress can be seen in such films as “Primal Fear”, “Savages”, “Kinsey”.
Love Truman
Of course, Jim Carrey and Laura Linney became the stars of the tragicomedy, but other actors deserve attention. The Truman Show is a film that allowed Natasha McElhone to make herself known . A few years after the release of the picture, the British actress achieved even greater success, playing one of the main roles in the TV show "Lascivious California".
Her heroine Sylvia is a girl whom Burbank falls in love with unexpectedly for the director and screenwriter of a reality show. Of course, an objectionable character who was assigned only an episodic role is instantly eliminated from the "town" in which the program is being shot. However, Sylvia manages to arouse doubts in Truman, and then, being "free", springs up a large-scale company to free him.
Noah Emmerich and his character
The above are not all the stars of the film "The Truman Show", whose actors are still interested in the audience. For example, Noah Emmerich, then a former aspiring actor, did an excellent job with his role. Some time after the release of the tragicomedy Noah became famous as one of the central characters in the series "Americans".
In the film The Truman Show, Noah portrayed an actor who receives money for portraying Burbank's best friend. His character, Louis, has been in the reality show since the first years of his life, sincerely attached to Truman and suffers from having to deceive a "friend."
Who played Christoph?
Who else decorated the film “The Truman Show”, whose actors brilliantly coped with their tasks? Of course, Ed Harris, who embodied the image of producer Christoph, who directs the life of Truman. At first, Peter Weir saw Dennis Hopper in this role, but later found him not charming enough.
Hopper was succeeded by Ed Harris, who had 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.