James L. Brooks
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
The hardest part to cast was Greg Kinnear in that.
That took months and months.
Two auditions that some people resent and some people really like because instead of an audition, I get involved, I make it a work session, we go over it again.
And some actors resent it and some actors really appreciate it.
It's the right way to work or else it's sort of bullshit.
Let's try working together, you know?
Yes.
No, but you're just seeing the mesh.
And I mean, you lose yourself.
So you're not sitting there saying, show me.
And you're trying to figure it out with them.
Yes, he was the toughest.
A colleague told me about him and I went to see him because that was impossible.
I've never read so many actors for a part.
Really?
Yes.
You don't know.
That's why you can't, you know, you don't know.
I wrote it.
I wrote Emma McKay.