Allison Jones
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first 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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I assume they're called sides because it's two sides of a playbill or something. I never figured that out.
We'll find out for the fact check. I think it has to do with one side, two sides of something. Interesting.
That happened way before we came into streaming. I mean, managers started getting busy on us about 25 years ago. I think actors, for some reason, they decided they needed an attorney, they needed a manager, they needed an agent as well.
And so I remember sometime in the 90s when suddenly the breakdowns, which is a service that sends to agents the parts that we're casting and then they submit handouts.
Yes, exactly. And that is how they disseminated the casting calls, basically, for every new project that came along. It was breakdown. There's kind of a monopoly on that one company. Suddenly, for some reason, I remember the first manager I ever heard of was Keith Addis, who represented Sting. He never would bother any of us, but it was like, oh, what does a manager do?
Anyway, so then for some reason, there was just like an onslaught of managers who started to call us. You'd have an agent calling about the same client that a manager would call about.
Young River Phoenix was.
And Tom Hanks. Yep. And you already had Michael G. Fox. And this was all my boss, Judith Wiener, and her associate at the time, Donald DeLine, who's now a big producer. My favorite person in show business. He produced Without a Paddle.
He's hilarious and was just as funny then. Wait, the line did the pilot of Family Ties? He was the associate at the time. Really? I think he was the one who probably turned Judith on to Justine Bateman as being a good one in the group, because sometimes associates would pre-read the people, which doesn't so much exist anymore. Now you'd call it self-tape as a pre-read.
Yeah, I got a question about that. Anyway, many, many young people came through the Family Ties coffers. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, I think as a seven-year-old, played a bully with them. Do you guys even know Family Ties? Yes, I grew up watching Family Ties. You didn't? I did.
I don't think you can get it anywhere now. And it's a show that would catch on because of the conservative liberal thing.
It was great. And it was Gary David Goldberg's family story, basically. He was liberal and a hippie and his kids were conservative. I believe so.
So you loved Alex P. Keaton.
Who was Skippy? Mark Price. Yes, of course. Literally the definition of the goofy friend next door.
Yes, with Judith. We did the pilot.
Estelle definitely made herself look like an old granny.
It was not even discussed. The women that were considered were all probably in those days considered elderly, and they were in their 50s.
Yeah. You still see that from time to time, though. But then it was not even a question. There was just people in their 50s were going to be the elderly people. But Estelle came in to audition for something on Family Ties. I keep everything in my storage units. And I went back to see the way we got to Estelle. And she had auditioned for something on Family Ties.
I saw the producer session, which I typed on a select typewriter. And then you make copies of it. Then you pass it out. She had come in for a part that she did not get. But then about a week later, Judith brought her in for Golden Girls just to pre-read her. We didn't tape or anything. We had to bring them back in person for all the producers. Tony Thomas and Paul Witt.
Susan Harris didn't come to the sessions. Sam Harris's mother. That's right. Wait a minute. Oh, Sam. I'm sorry. What does he do now?
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