Questions tagged [casting]
Questions concerning the cast of a film or show.
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Is a willingness to smoke a consideration when casting an actor?
In this day and age smoking is looked down upon for both its direct and secondhand smoke health issues. So when casting for a role that requires smoking, is the willingness of the actor to actually ...
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For how long was the Charlie Townsend actor's identity a mystery to the real-world audience?
Charles Townsend is the mysterious millionaire behind Charlie's Angels, who briefs them via speakerphone.
Charlie is voiced by John Forsythe, but he is uncredited throughout the series and never seen ...
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Why didn't Steve Zahn receive a credit for Silo?
I was watching S2E3 "Solo" of the show Silo and there is a character named Solo in a locked room talking through a view hole. I recognized the voice and eyes but was trying to place him and ...
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Do the non-white actors in “A Gentleman in Moscow” signify/symbolize anything?
In A Gentleman in Moscow (2024), many Russian characters are (very confusingly) played by non-white (specifically black and Indian) actors.
Do they signify/symbolize anything?
Or was the casting ...
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Was it ever explained why The Pagemaster (1994) had so many actors from Star Trek in it?
The 1994 film The Pagemaster cast the voices of a rather large number of actors then famous for their work on Star Trek, including Leonard Nimoy, Patrick Stewart, Whoopi Goldberg, and Christopher ...
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Why was Bill Skarsgård cast for the role of Marquis?
I saw John Wick: Chapter 4 when it came out. I think the team did a great job, but I wonder why Bill Skarsgård was chosen for the main antagonist, Marquis. To me, he does not look and feel "...
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When does Peter Mayhew appear in Fanboys?
Both IMDB and Letterboxd list Peter Mayhew as appearing in Fanboys (2009) as himself. Which part of the movie was he in?
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Why did the producers of "This Is Us" use Sylvester Stallone as the "special" star?
One of the main themes of the TV series This Is Us is showing how even many years after the accident, the three siblings still have problems dealing with the loss of their father.
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Katharine Hepburn, polyglot?
In Woman of the Year (1942), Katharine Hepburn speaks English, French, Russian, German, Spanish and Greek. Presumably she had good coaching; but, given her background, I would be surprised to learn ...
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Fassbinder and Almodóvar’s subversion of the heterosexual male gaze: scholarship and parallels? [closed]
A number of auteurs have had favorite actresses that they discovered and cast from one film to another (e.g. Godard, Rivette, Truffaut). Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Pedro Almódovar are certainly ...
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Why was Eugene Levy not cast in American Pie Presents: Girls' Rules?
Eugene Levy as character "Noah Levenstein" (Jim's dad) was cast in all of the American Pie and American Pie Presents movies except the most recent one: American Pie Presents: Girls' Rules.
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Why do older actors play teenage roles?
In many films, I have seen that a lot of teenage characters are played by actors in their 20's.
Two notable examples are:
In Spider-Man, Tobey Maguire (26) plays an 18-year-old.
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Is this the biggest age gap between romantic leads where the actress is the older?
The Lost City stars Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum as the romantic leads. The movie was filmed in 2021. Sandra Bullock was born on July 26, 1964 and Channing Tatum was born on April 26, 1980, ...
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How long after Luc Besson's "discovery" of Natalya Rudakova did the filming of Transporter 3 begin? Just a few "hours" or "lessons" later?
I'd linked to Natalya Rudakova's "doom and gloom" then did a little further reading about the actor.
A "mini bio" in IMDB's Natalya Rudakova Biography says only
She was born in ...
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Had Slim Pickens and Kubrick worked together prior to Dr Strangelove?
Slim Pickens was cast in Dr. Strangelove somewhat last-minute. Originally, Peter Sellers had been slated to play the bomber pilot, along with his three other roles, but a knee injury required him to ...
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