Allison Jones
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard · Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director) · 18 Dec 2024
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No, I would not. And I'm working with him now. Are you? First time I met him. For Bad Monkey? No, for New Steve Carell Show.
Who knew this one was... I did not.
Okay. But you first worked for Kristen. I did. Or did Dex find you for that?
Maybe I did know that a while ago.
But to be like an on-mic person, an on-camera person, I asked him if the audio could be broken today, but the fact that you film this is scary. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
One less year than that. Wasn't Family Ties 82? But I came in season two.
The higher up the food chain you go in terms of auditioning, I get as nervous as the actor does. And when it's like a final audition, you'll hear my voice quiver like you hear it quivering now. Oh, really? Oh, gosh. Just because you care? Obviously. Probably. And I want to get the job done, too. And I want them to do a good job.
That's a good question. I would say that we always want to do a good job, but also I really want the people I'm bringing in to do a good job and that we pick the right person. Yes. My biggest fear is we don't pick the right person. That's a common casting director fear was that they're going to pick the boner in the group or something.
Mom was a housewife, which is what women were wont to do back then. And my father was an insurance executive. Very nice childhood. Kind of predictable. A Norman Rockwell painting? Not that. Not quite. We won't go that far.
No, that would have been a few of the neighboring towns like Wellesley. But a lovely town, and my best friends are still my high school friends.
I have five siblings.
She would let us know that. Was it every other one? No, two boys, two girls, me, and then my younger brother. Was it just chaos in a very fun way? You're such an optimist. Yes, it was chaos. Ha, ha, ha. In a fun way, mostly, yes. When I was growing up in the 60s and 70s, Boston Mass was filled with huge families, Irish Catholic families, Italian families. Six was very common.
Yeah. What about you guys? Can I ask you back?
They both have only child syndrome. Two would have been controversial where I grew up. It was like, two? What happened? She must have some kind of issue.
Yeah, of course. All men are virile. Most of my friends from high school came from very large families. And we would have synchronized brothers and sister ages. My younger brother was best friends with my best friend's younger brother. We can still talk about antics and all that kind of stuff back from the
what about early days dating older siblings friends was that ever an issue that popped up i would have been terrified okay i can't say i may have wanted to yeah sure the more interesting thing was my two older brothers possibly going after the same
They were, in fact. And my younger brother and I, very close in age, 13 months. Okay. What's the age gap between the oldest and the youngest? The oldest and the youngest would be about 11 years, I think. My mother had three kids, took a little break, and then another three kids.
A hiatus, yeah.
Well, I applied to a lot of fancy colleges and didn't get in. I wanted to go to school in California because I would watch shows like The Newlywood Game and The Dating Game and Gidget, which was like, oh my God, that girl gets to surf after school. I can't believe it. So in the 60s and 70s, everything was happening in California.
Music, serial killing, free love. Everything was happening in California. So I was like, I got to go. That's where it's at. And also in those days, you didn't do the regimented thing of visiting colleges and spending a fortune on SATs and on applications. I just said, I got to go to California. It's super cool out there. So my parents wouldn't let me.
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