Tag: The Humans
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The Humans and the Cringe Nature of Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving doesn’t have the greatest reputation among the major American holidays. It’s a time of the year often most famous for confrontational family conversations and marketers tend to give it the cold shoulder. It’s not that the other big holidays are perfect or that it’s impossible to have a good Thanksgiving. But Thanksgiving doesn’t have…
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Richard Jenkins: ‘If a serial killer is your son, do you stop loving him?’
The Six Feet Under actor on challenging roles, working with Guillermo del Toro and being recognised at funeralsAmerican actor Richard Jenkins, 74, has been a screen regular since the 70s, but his big breakthrough came in 2001 playing deceased funeral director Nathaniel Fisher in the TV series Six Feet Under. He went on to receive…
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‘The Humans’ Director Breaks Down the Film’s Creepy New York Apartment That’s Straight Out of a Horror Movie
Stephen Karam’s claustrophobic family drama “The Humans” takes place in what, to a non-New Yorker, might resemble the most terrifying and uninhabitable apartment on the market: The paint’s peeling, light fixtures dangle precariously from the ceiling, and the only natural light seeps in through dirty windows looking out on the most depressing airshaft of all…
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Richard Jenkins on ‘The Humans’ and Finding Success Later in Life: ‘Luck Was a Huge Part of It’
For Richard Jenkins, breaking into the movie business took years of rejection, bit parts and relative obscurity.But Hollywood eventually came calling in the 1990s and Jenkins has been in demand ever since, logging impressive performances in everything from “Step Brothers” to “Six Feet Under” to his Oscar-nominated work in “The Shape of Water” and “The…