portray

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The YouTuber has interviewed more than 100 contestants on his channel, and tells Newsbeat he feels that by today's standards there could be questions over how some contestants were treated and portrayed.

From BBC

Brazilian director Karim Ainouz's surreal satire "Rosebush Pruning" premiered on Saturday at the Berlin Film Festival with one of the programme's starriest casts portraying an outrageously spoiled and dysfunctional family descending into chaos.

From Barron's

She drew liberally on her own experiences in the music industry to portray the fictional Charli's reactions.

From Barron's

"They might walk into this film thinking it's a light and fluffy romantic film, as they've seen it portrayed by the stars, when it's actually a deeply troubling story."

From BBC

Researchers studying what has been called one of the most important mosaics ever found in the UK say it portrays a rarely told version of the Trojan War that had largely faded from history.

From Science Daily