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How Hollywood Finds Its Stars: Behind the Scenes With Casting Directors, the Most Important and Least Understood Job in Movies
Casting sets the tone of a movie. The Academy is finally acknowledging this challenging job with an Oscar category.
Grace Kelly, Humphrey Bogart and other picturesque stars were signed to individual studios, and the likes of MGM and Warner Bros. employed a stable of character actors who would round out the cast of a film. On the other hand, casting directors think of themselves as actors’ advocates, and Zoom has cramped their ability to give notes in real time — there’s just not as much opportunity to offer feedback to thousands of performers before they’re rejected. We look at every single one in case it’s the one,” says Jenny Jue, whose credits include Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” and Bong Joon Ho’s “Okja.” “Actors often feel like, ‘I’m sending this tape into the ether, and I never hear anything back.’”
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