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How Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Discovered a New Generation of Stars
Casting director Victoria Thomas on booking Mikey Madison, Austin Butler, Margaret Qualley, and Sydney Sweeney just before their careers took off.
Thomas is a Hollywood veteran whose credits stretch back to Repo Man, and she is a six-time winner at the Casting Society’s Artios Awards for projects as varied as The Last of Us, A Black Lady Sketch Show, and Hidden Figures. She had already been on two seasons of Better Things by this point, though she was hired less off the FX show and more on Thomas’s previous experiences auditioning her on projects like Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit and Edward Zwick’s Trial by Fire. As the daughter of Uma Thurman, Hawke later recalled getting “an extra-tight hug and a wink from Quentin” at her callback, and she nabbed the part of Kasabian, here called Flowerchild, at the mix and match, which took place around the time she was filming season three of Stranger Things.
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