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Character name:
Nicholas DevereauxAppears in:
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Date(s): August 2004
Award(s):1 win & 2 nominations | | Character back story: Princess Mia has just turned 21 and is supposed to succeed her grandmother as the Queen of Genovia. But Viscount Mabrey who wishes that his nephew who is also in line to the throne to be the new ruler, reminds everyone of a law that states that an unmarried woman can't be made queen, and with the backing of parliament, he opposes Mia's coronation. But Queen Clarice asks that Mia be allowed time to find a husband, and she is given 30 days. But Mabrey tries to do what he can to stop that. But his nephew, Nicholas has met Mia and they are both attracted to each other but Mia upon learning who he is, dislikes and doesn't trust him but Clarice has invited him to stay with them for the 30 day period to keep an eye on him. | | Inspiration for character: | | Age/Occupation: | | Personality type: | | Signature look: | | Resides: Genovia | | Character connections: | Fun facts/trivia:
- Julie Andrews does her own stunt in the mattress-surfing scene.
- The jewelry used by Mia and the queen is all real. A guard was on set the whole time. The most expensive piece is the necklace the queen is wearing at the wedding.
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| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - Mia Thermopolis: I loathe you!
Nicholas Devereaux: I loathe YOU!
Mia Thermopolis: I loathed you FIRST!
Nicholas Devereaux: [kisses Mia] - Nicholas Devereaux: I'm Nick. Viscount Mabrey's nephew.
Andrew Jacoby: Ah, the chap who's trying to stage the palace coup. I'm Andrew Jacoby. Nice to meet you.
Lilly Moscovitz: [Thrusting out her hand to shake his] Lilly Moscovitz, official best friend of future queen. I don't like you.
Nicholas Devereaux: Pleasure. - Nicholas Devereaux: [kneels before Mia] If I may be so bold, I would like an audience with Your Highness.
Mia Thermopolis: [motions for him to go ahead] What is your dilemma, young man?
Nicholas Devereaux: You are, in fact. I am in love with the Queen-to-be, and I am inquiring if she loves me, too.
Mia Thermopolis: Do you have a chicken for my table?
Nicholas Devereaux: No. No, my kitchen is empty of chickens. - Nicholas Devereaux: Rapunzel, Rapunzel, with hair so fine. Come out your window, climb down the vine.
Mia Thermopolis: The feat you ask, dear sir, isn't easy. And I won't respond to that line, it's far too cheesy.
- Mia Thermopolis: [stepping on Nicholas's foot the first time] Oh! Your foot, I'm so sorry, are you all right?
Nicholas Devereaux: Oh I'll survive, Your Highness, the fault was entirely my own.
Mia Thermopolis: Are you sure you don't want to exchange licenses and proof of insurances?
Nicholas Devereaux: No, no. These shoes were a little big anyway. The swelling should help them fit better. - Nicholas Devereaux: [after Mia angrily stomps on his foot] It's alright, she always does that.
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Character name:
Jake Hardin
Appears in: Just My Luck
Date(s): May 2006
Award(s): 4 nominations
| | Character back story: In Manhattan, Ashley Albright is a lucky woman and very successful in the agency where she works. The clumsy Jake Hardin is an unlucky aspirant manager of the rock band McFly, who is unsuccessfully trying to contact the entrepreneur Damon Phillips to promote his band. When Ashley meets Jake in a masquerade party, they kiss each other, swapping her fortune with his bad luck. | | Inspiration for character: | | Age/Occupation: | | Personality type: Clumsy, but sweet. | | Signature look: | | Resides: | | Character connections: | Fun facts/trivia:
- The shots of the McFly concert in Times Square were actually shot in England for McFly's home-fan base. While changing lighting and camera angles, McFly would play their other songs for the fans before playing the ones for the movie while filming.
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| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - Jake Hardin: [sees Ashley put in one side of the light bulb] And she should've turned the light off because now she's going to be...
Ashley Albright: [light sparks] AAAAAAAAAA!
Jake Hardin: ...electrocuted.
Jake Hardin: [catching Ashley as she falls backwards] Hi.
Ashley Albright: [gasps] Oh, my God... Hi. - Jake Hardin: Can I give you a ride?
Ashley Albright: I only live twenty nine blocks from here.
Jake Hardin: Uh, at least take my umbrella.
Ashley Albright: I already have one.
Jake Hardin: You know, I got a washer-dryer, uh... microwave popcorn, satellite T.V.
Ashley Albright: No, I... I really shouldn't.
Jake Hardin: Look, I don't do this for just anybody, but I'll even throw in some hot chocolate with those little tiny marshmallows.
Ashley Albright: I love the little marshmallows.
Jake Hardin: How about you toss the lighting rod and get in.
Ashley Albright: Ooh...
[sighs]
Ashley Albright: Thank you. - Jake Hardin: So, other than, uh, you know getting zapped, how's the job working out?
Ashley Albright: Oh, I can't complain.
Jake Hardin: That's good.
Ashley Albright: No, I mean, I'm literally not allowed to complain. I had to sign something. - Jake Hardin: [to himself] Is it me or did I just get lucky?
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Character name: Danny
Appears in: Blind Dating
Date(s): April 2007
Award(s): | | Character back story: A charming young blind man signs up for a dangerous experimental procedure: brain surgery that may give him partial vision. While taking tests he falls hard for the lovely East Indian nurse, but she has been promised in an arranged marriage - a promise she feels she cannot break without dishonoring her family. But when the man's brain surgery goes unexpectedly awry, the crisis effects a reunion between the two young lovers. | | Inspiration for character: | | Age/Occupation: | | Personality type: Intelligent, handsome, charming, blind young man. | | Signature look: | | Resides: | | Character connections: | | Fun facts/trivia: |
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - Danny: You remember when you tried to tell me what your family thought about love? Well, let me tell you what I think love is. Love is how you speak to me. You have a softness in your voice that- And love is how you touch me... and guide me showing me the way to go. And when we kiss-when we kiss... it moves me to my soul.
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Character name:
James T. Kirk
Appears in: Star Trek
Date(s): May 2009
Award(s): 1 win & 8 nominations | | Character back story: On the day of James Kirk's birth, his father dies on his ship in a last stand against a mysterious alien vessel. He was looking for Ambassador Spock, who is a child on Vulcan at that time, disdained by his neighbors for his half-human nature. Twenty years later, Kirk has grown into a young troublemaker inspired by Capt. Christopher Pike to fulfill his potential in Starfleet even as he annoys his instructors like young Lt. Spock. Suddenly, there is an emergency at Vulcan and the newly commissioned USS Enterprise is crewed with promising cadets like Nyota Uhura, Hikaru Sulu, Pavel Chekov and even Kirk himself thanks to Leonard McCoy's medical trickery. Together, this crew will have an adventure in the final frontier where the old legend is altered forever even as the new version of it is just beginning. | | Inspiration for character: | | Age/Occupation: | | Personality type: Brilliant troublemaker. | | Signature look: | | Resides: | | Character connections: | Fun facts/trivia:
- J.J. Abrams' only two choices for Nero were Russell Crowe and Eric Bana.
- The role of James T. Kirk came down between Mike Vogel and Chris Pine. Vogel was reported as being the front runner for the part but J.J. Abrams decided to cast Pine in the end. Joshua Jackson also auditioned for the role.
- To prepare for his role as Captain James Kirk, Chris Pine watched classic episodes and read encyclopedias about the Star Trek universe. However, his research was rudimentary, as he wanted his performance to be original and not an imitation of William Shatner. He based his performance on Tom Cruise's Maverick and Harrison Ford's Han Solo and Indiana Jones, heroes who Pine felt possessed the archetypal hero qualities Kirk has (humour, arrogance, decisiveness).
- Karl Urban is a longtime self-described "religious" fan of the Original Series. He used to watch it on Saturday mornings in New Zealand with his dad. Shortly before word came down about the development of this film, he bought the complete series on DVD and watched them with his son.
- To prepare for his role as Spock, Zachary Quinto grew his hair longer and dyed it, and shaved his eyebrows. He claimed that the change in appearance cemented his performance: "I just felt like a nerd. I felt like I was 12 again, you look back at those pictures and you see the bowl cut. I was sporting that look for a good 4 or 5 years. There's no question I was born to play Spock."
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| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - Kirk: [Stepping aboard the bridge as its official captain] Bones! Buckle up!
- Christopher Pike: [whistles to break up fight between cadets and Kirk] Outside! All of you! Now!
[to Kirk]
Christopher Pike: You all right son?
Kirk: [Looks at him upside down and stunned] You can whistle really loud, you know that? - Lt. Nyota Uhura: I'm impressed. For a moment there, I thought you were just a dumb hick who only has sex with farm animals.
Kirk: Well, not only. - Scotty: I'm so - What? Are you from the future?
Kirk: Yeah, he is. I'm not.
Scotty: Well that's brilliant! Do they still have sandwiches there? - Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: I may throw up on ya.
Kirk: I think these things are pretty safe.
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Don't pander to me, kid. One tiny crack in the hull and our blood boils in thirteen seconds. Solar flare might crop up, cook us in our seats. And wait till you're sitting pretty with a case of Andorian shingles, see if you're so relaxed when your eyeballs are bleeding. Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence.
Kirk: Well, I hate to break this to you, but Starfleet operates in space.
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Yeah. Well, I got nowhere else to go, the ex-wife took the whole damn planet in the divorce. All I got left is my bones. - Kirk: [Spock volunteers for what could be a suicide mission] I'm coming with you.
Spock: I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it.
Kirk: See? We are getting to know each other.
Kirk: [slaps his shoulder). - Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Well congratulations Jim. We've got no Captain and no god damned First Officer to replace him.
Kirk: Yeah, we do.
[Kirk sits himself into the Captain's chair]
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: What?
Hikaru Sulu: Pike made him first officer.
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: You gotta be kidding me!
Kirk: Thank for the support.
Lt. Nyota Uhura: I sure hope you know what you're doing...
[sarcastically]
Lt. Nyota Uhura: Captain.
Kirk: So do I. - Spock: [after Kirk offers surrender terms to Nero] Captain, what are you doing?
Kirk: Showing them compassion. It may be the only way to earn peace with Romulus. It's logic, Spock, I thought you'd like that.
Spock: No, not really. Not this time. - Spock: We must gather with the rest of Starfleet... to balance the terms of the next engagement!
Kirk: There won't BE a next engagement! By the time we've gathered, it'll be too late! But you say he's from the future and knows what's gonna happen - then the logical thing is to be unpredictable!
Spock: You are assuming that Nero knows how events are predicted to unfold - the contrary. Nero's very presence has altered the flow of history, beginning with the attack on the USS Kelvin, culminating in the events of today, thereby creating an entire new chain of incidents that cannot be anticipated by either party.
Lt. Nyota Uhura: An alternate reality...
Spock: Precisely. Whatever our lives might have been if the time continuum was disrupted - our destinies have changed. - Kirk: [Pike previously told Kirk he would be Captain in 4 years] I'll do it in three.
- Kirk: [upon taking command of the Enterprise] Attention crew of the Enterprise, this is James Kirk. Mr. Spock has resigned commission and advanced me to acting captain. I know you are all expecting to regroup with the fleet, but I'm ordering a pursuit course of the enemy ship to Earth. I want all departments at battle stations and ready in ten minutes. Either we're going down... or they are. Kirk out.
- Kirk: [still suffering from the vaccine] My mouth is itchy. Is that normal?
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Those symptoms won't last long. I'm going to give you a sedative.
Kirk: I wish I didn't know you.
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: Don't be such an infant.
[He jabs Kirk with a hypodermic needle]
Kirk: OWW! How long's it supposed to...
[he suddenly collapses on the bed]
Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: [Shaking his head] Unbelievable.
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