11.   Actors do their jobs.

12.   Actors do that all the time, and hardly anybody notices.

13.   All things considered, within the individual segments, the actors do pretty well, particularly Shea.

14.   But before shooting began, Pitt, Annaud and co-star Thewlis went to Austria where the actors did a three-week mountaineering course and met the real Harrer.

15.   But if actors can do the classics, Houseman believed, they can do anything.

16.   But if Japanese actors do the same, the result comes across as corny.

17.   But maybe the actors are just doing what they love.

18.   But the play is staged, and the actors do more than read their parts.

19.   Coppola would say that the actor did amazing improv work.

20.   He had no idea how popular the comics were, nor did Australian actor Hugh Jackman, who landed the coveted role of the fiery loner, Wolverine.