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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He's hard to miss. I had cast him in a couple of day player roles when he was first starting out and he was very singular, Jack Black, and he could deliver one line and you'd remember it. Yes. And he was with the Gage Group very early on in his career.
In every casting office, you have people that you remember and keep bringing in and bringing in until they get the part that really propels them into a long career.
The music connection is interesting, though. I do love certain soundtracks, starting with Alfred Hitchcock movies, and they are what connect your fandom, I think, a lot of the time. That's a great point. In features, casting directors always get credited, it seems, the card right after the music, the music editor.
And I bore people with all the stories I'm boring you with now.
Oh, it's fantastic.
He's a hunter. And he's funny. Pickup truck. He needs to show his funny side again. I know.
I've been thinking that a lot lately. And Jack Black needs to show his dramatic side. We have all these thoughts casting people. We talk about this all the time.
She's doing pretty good. No, keep on keeping on, but she would be great in a down and dirty drama.
Wouldn't she want to? Yeah, of course.
Do you really? Why?
She should do a real movie, an indie movie or something. Queen Pins was great for her.
I did.
Oh, Kirby's the best.
Kirby, we've hired forever. The richest talent pool is comedy. Yeah. Frankly. My argument, and you would, I think, agree because you've directed now, is so many drama actors, some of them are brilliant at comedy. Going the other way, comedy to drama is much more frequent and much more a surprise. Yes. Sasha Baron Cohen is very good in Disclaimer. Yes.
I mean, and a lot of experience and a lot of beating yourself up and a lot of stuff to draw from.
Beyond straight up harder than drama.
Though they try.
You should have a group casting director thing because people would be shocked at how many people slunked first and then got the big, it's tenacity, tenacity, tenacity. It used to be in pilot season, the people who didn't get the roles, the next season would get the roles. And the next season, the people who didn't even get as far as the network would get the roles. That's good to know.
It's a cycle though. It is tenacity.
Oh, yeah. Battled for Elizabeth Banks to get many things. It was mostly like women whose studios didn't think were pretty enough. Like Elizabeth Banks. We finally got her in. Yeah, she's hot as hell. Yeah, I know. Or Amy Adams.
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