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"It's not the casting that defines the character; it's the character themselves."
"I love Star Wars, and I love Obi-Wan, and the fact that they got Ewan McGregor back to do it is still pretty exciting to me."
"However I was very charmed by Knightley’s Elizabeth and most of the cast in the film are a combination of more likeable and more memorable."
"Robot and Frank actually stars Frank Langella as an ex-jewel thief who's retired, living alone, getting on in his years."
"They hired real gangsters. That's why they were so convincing."
"According to Paula Hart, she was handed an annual Halloween comic that featured Sabrina the Teenage Witch and she thought it was the perfect role for Melissa."
"I thought that Chris Pratt as Star-Lord was perfect."
"The power of imagination is exactly what casting is. Casting as a culture making machine."
"As a caster, man, as a caster, we hope for outstanding games, and we had an outstanding game right there, at least for the memes."
"Bruce Willis was not even the third choice for this action movie. He was seen as a comedic actor."
"They feature actor Liev Schreiber in 'Into the Spider-Verse'."
"TJ Miller does no wrong for me I think I loved him in Silicon Valley I think him being cast as an internet troll in the future is unbelievably just like perfect casting."
"If someone said to you we need an internet troll we were thinking TJ Miller yes no one else that's it I know we're done."
"You're just cherry-picking and doing tokenism, adding one person from a different race into an already established cast."
"Logan Lerman is an interesting name floated for the new Spider-Man."
"Tom Hanks playing a villain? Completely fascinated by that."
"The footage of it, you're like, 'Yeah, they got the right guy to play this.' It looks phenomenal, I can't wait to see."
"Keanu Reeves for me, great, like he's amazingly cast now some people might think it may be hard to move past the good guy Keanu that we know and love in real life but I think what he does here is really cool."
"Luffy is a ridiculously difficult role to cast and he beyond nailed it."
"I would say, probably like Helen Mirren... she'd just do it job."
"John Goodman as Fred Flintstone in the Flintstones movie is the best Fred Flintstone."
"The casting for the whole gang and even Rowan Atkinson as the villain was pretty much perfect..."
"If you're getting a script for a movie such as Aquaman that's kept tightly close to the vest...they want you to be in the movie."
"If she got this script, they were going to use her in the movie, that was their plan."
"Joe Pesci's performance impressed him so much that he had to convince Martin Scorsese to cast this guy in their next film."
"The energy really drags, there's a smaller cast and many more awkward pauses."
"I think a new crow made today with today's sensibilities has the right cast and everything, I think it has a lot of potential to be better than the original."
"So let's talk about the first one which is the castings made out of like a sand casting."
"Henry Cavill rules, I think it makes perfect sense to put Henry Cavill in the MCU. He'd be a huge get for Marvel."
"I think Jonathan Majors not only has the physicality for it he's also got the acting chops."
"Seth Rogen is set to play Donkey Kong in the upcoming Super Mario Bros movie releasing April 7th 2023."
"Viola Davis can do no wrong, and to have her as Amanda Waller again is just perfect."
"Despite receiving generally mixed reviews, Permanent Record was famously championed by Roger Ebert as one of the best films of 1988 with Reeves perfectly cast as outsider Chris Townsend."
"And the second I saw Robert Pattinson without the cowl, I went, they may have done it, they may have finally cast young version like year one."
"Bill Murray in a Ghostbusters movie in general, that's a huge buy for me."
"I think the smart play is to have Bill Murray in this, not playing Peter Venkman."
"When Jack Nicholson was hired, that was the greatest day of my career."
"Jensen Ackles... plays Batman here to perfection and is clearly the right choice for the role."
"Lucy Fisher says that the promise of getting to punch her pretty much sealed the deal."
"Henry Cavill is a big thing to have in the bank."
"I think you can do another Iron Man movie with a different star maybe even Tom Cruise and I think that you'd get a billion dollar movie."
"I've been waiting for this. Hi, yeah. Well, what's it like to get the call that you're gonna be in the next Star Wars film?"
"At the end of the day though, they could have cast real dwarfs in the movie as long as they actually had good writing."
"This noise is necessary, we can't go on like this anymore."
"Disney's Peter Pan and Wendy praised for casting first black Tinkerbell in new remake."
"Jennifer Aniston, however, was the last of the main six actors to be cast."
"Glad Ridley Scott keeps casting strong women."
"Cast the best actor and I bet you they will explode."
"Downey wasn't the most obvious choice, but he understood what makes the character tick. He found a lot of his own life experience in 'Tony Stark'." - Jon Favreau
"I love this idea. Jamie Foxx is a great actor and I think he could do some good work in this role."
"Sephiroth's voice in Advent Children was chosen for its perfect fit."
"This is another case where we can't imagine anyone other than Johansson in the role."
"Honestly, these two were some awesome last surprises that made sense as supporting cast members."
"It's changing the game because Simu Liu was cast as Shang-Chi."
"Uma was perfectly cast as Venus, the goddess of love."
"Darkwing Duck had a pretty deep cast list, showcasing Disney's tendency to invest a lot in their productions."
"Uma Thurman turned down the role of Mia Wallace."
"Jules was written specifically for Samuel L. Jackson."
"Getting the call that you got cast as the voice of Batman in an upcoming game is both exhilarating and scary as all get out."
"This guy is definitely beefed up to play the role, I see the vision and I approve of this."
"As much as I'm disappointed that Will Smith isn't going to be Deadshot anymore, I couldn't think someone better to replace him than Idris."
"This movie proves the importance of casting."
"He found himself in the unforgettable role of Augustus Gloop."
"Eden Lake is expertly casted with each of the roles feeling like they've been filled and played by real people."
"Daniel Day Kim playing this character, I mean, just look at him."
"Alexandra Shipp was really well cast as Storm."
"William Dafoe showed up like absolutely, he understood the assignment. He understood this, in my opinion, this is his and Andrew Garfield's movie."
"We don’t want these actors to become the new industry tokens that get cast in everything as a cover that things are just fine."
"I didn't have anybody saying, 'You know, why don't we cast Priyanka Chopra in this movie?'"
"Bebop confidently bucked that trend with a talented, warm, professional cast..."
"I couldn't imagine a more entertaining actor in this role."
"Instead of the cast being whitewashed it's full of Asian and Indigenous people and many can't wait to see how familiar faces of beloved actors will interpret just as beloved characters. Overall the casting looks like a win."
"Daniel Edwards casting is committed to equal opportunities for all performers regardless of gender, race, disability, religion, or sexual orientation."
"The worst thing to do is do nothing because you're confused."
"There's more opportunities than ever before today."
"Kevin Costner almost played Andy Dufresne, the main character of The Shawshank Redemption."
"I love him as Deathstroke. I hope he's it." - Jon Schnepp
"People do this all the time... people are unhappy with the casting."
"That's one of the reasons I was so happy you guys were nominated for Best ensemble because it is such an ensemble piece every single role is just cast so perfectly."
"Charlize Theron is the best actress I can think of for this role."
"Shazam is essentially big the movie big it is the mob with Tom Hanks Zachary Levi in my in my opinion is the one of the best casting decisions for this movie."
"Most good casting just involves trying very hard to match good roles to the right actors, who can turn a couple hundred lines of dialogue into a fully fleshed out human."
"I just read Jim Carrey's gonna play Terence Mckenna like the witch I was like awesome."
"We want to be able to authentically fit them into this show."
"Another example of a great actress that potentially could be a great version of Poison Ivy."
"I would personally because I think he's his [ __ ] hysterical I will and he has played Batman I would go with diedrich bader as Bruce Wayne Batman so that would be my live-action Batman"
"Tom Hardy has Venom, casting alone for the character, I think that's fantastic."
"Game of Thrones actor Pedro Pascal who played the Viper oberyn martell he's going to play an unknown key role in the upcoming Wonder Woman sequel ooh talk about mind-blowing news the Viper bites both ways."
"I think Bella crushed this... she's perfect for this."
"I'm gonna sell this one to I you said you had the right star Tom Cruise I want to see that star do different movies than a biblical epic because you're right biblical epics had not been great recently."
"Pedro Pascal is great casting for Joel. He really embodies the character."
"The casting for the show was very smart and very clever."
"Dracula rises in the MCU! Giancarlo Esposito brings gravitas and class to the role. Beware, Avengers!"
"We need a face-off remake of Jackman and Reynolds."
"That '90s show has an air of believability because it casts actual teenagers in the lead roles."
"Warner Brothers originally wanted Nolan to cast Leonardo DiCaprio as The Riddler."
"Feminism is about equality, but if you cast your protagonist as a man, you [ __ ] up."
"The casting choices that Robert Rodriguez makes in his movies are wonderful."
"Our hit rate was really high actually. We were, I'd say, probably 75-80 percent of people that we shot with ended up in the movie."
"The kids in this movie actually looked like high school aged kids."
"Finally, I have to say that I think it's morally reprehensible to have Johnny Depp in this movie."
"The casting is excellent, these aren't a bunch of clean-cut 25-year-olds that look like they just stepped out of a fashion magazine."
"It's always a risk to go back to the well, but here it earned more buckets of H2O. But its age 40 takes the round for its first win today."
"It's important that Aang is this age, not here."
"The Last of Us TV show features familiar faces, but Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson won't play Joel and Ellie."
"Jack Black as Bowser alone is just kind of everything I need to know, nothing else matters."
"A-list talent for the movies: Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlize Theron, and Angelina Jolie."
"I'd be up to seeing him back, both him and Sam Worthington and what's it the three of those guys."
"Amazon's Lord of the Rings has intersectional casting precisely so they can point that out and they can say we are racist when we criticize them for being unfaithful to Tolkien."
"Disappointment Boulevard will bring the same level of quality. It has a great cast attached including Joaquin Phoenix, Nathan Lane, and Amy Ryan."
"There is an alternate universe where Beyonce played the young version of this character."
"Adore was at her career peak I would say at this point as well so her casting was also not shocking in the slightest."
"The Conjuring: Its solid cast and eerie aesthetic manage to take well-worn themes and deliver something that will have you literally jumping out of your seat."
"I want to see Ben Affleck as Batman and it's just something I can't imagine yet."
"Beautiful cast to look at... their chemistry did really come off on-screen."
"Zodiac is director David Fincher's unsung masterpiece, skillfully made, perfectly cast, and shockingly faithful to the source material."
"Can you imagine anyone other than her in that lead role? It's impossible at this point."
"There's only going to be one actor playing Indiana Jones and that's Harrison Ford."
"They picked the perfect person to play Goose's kids."
"David Hayter would be thrilled to reprise his role as Snake."
"I thought Simu Liu was great and I thought Aquafina was pitch perfect in the film."
"Greta Gerwig is directing a Barbie movie written by Noah Baumbach, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling."
"One of the craziest games I've ever casted. I hope people end up seeing this."
"I like this news I like all three actors I mean we have a sophie turner who played Sansa Stark and in Game of Thrones who you know it was kind of annoying in the beginning but her character has really turned around."
"I love this casting I mean I love it and I think the main reason I love it you look at the pictures and compare them they look more like the characters and people who have played him in the past."
"I mean, really when you think about it, the actors in Avengers are fantastic."
"Andre 3000 as Willy Wonka? Twitter's idea spread like wildfire."
"Schwarzenegger was originally going to play Kyle Reese."
"I think Henry Cavill would be a pretty darn good choice."
"The powers that be on this show... were very adamant on who they brought into this job." - Nicholas
"A talented actor like that to play any combo character is a win for us fans."
"Scarlett Johansson is the perfect actress for the role."
"Great visuals, great cast, very, very dark direction and subject matter."
"I don't understand why I'm auditioning for things where casting directors ask me how big my biceps are."
"Whoopi Goldberg is really good casting for Mother Abigail."
"The cast in this movie is insane. It has one of the greatest casts ever."
"One of my favorite moments of accidental casting."
"Taron Egerton is Robin. Little old, but Taron Egerton is awesome."
"If I could replace the lead actor in any film, it'd be Back to the Future."
"I was supposed to be the lead... but you're white."
"Getting Geneviva Riley back to play Mon Mothma is so cool."
"Potential Flagg: Christopher Walken, James Woods, Jeff Goldblum, and Willem Dafoe were considered for playing Randall Flagg."
"I focused more on casting because... you are with one with the game in the crowd rather than just hindsighting and talking about possibilities."
"Timur Morrison has deserved a starring role in live-action Star Wars."
"She's the perfect choice, you couldn't get a better choice than Uma."
"It's all about heart, y'all, it's all about heart. We got this."
"Mysterio worked so well... Jake Gyllenhaal was the perfect person to play the character."
"This is why the Avienda casting is so significant."
"With the right actor in the role, the character of Rachel should have been a worthy foil to Bale's Bruce Wayne."
"Daniel Craig is the perfect kind of dude for this."
"Most appealing is the cast of course, which includes Chris Evans, Tom Holland, Sebastian Stan, Robert Pattinson, and more."
"John Krasinski as mr. fantastic Emily Blunt as Invisible Woman Zac Efron as Human Torch will Poulter as the thing make it happen Marvel."
"They actually cast first nation people to play first nation folk, they actually cast someone deaf to play someone deaf."
"Well, best of luck with that. Elllie Kemper aka Erin Hannon Ellie Kemper was a fresh and cheerful addition to the office cast."
"He looks like he would be fun to work with. What actor out of the cast would you want to work with the most?"
"Mark Ruffalo and Jennifer Garner as Adam's parents are a married couple."
"Everyone goes through their own demons and their own battles."
"She just walked in the room and she was the Doctor. It was like one of those things you don't know what you're looking for until you see it."
"Let's let Robert Downey Jr. play Tony Stark as a villain."
"Nicholas Cage as Dracula is just something that I never knew I needed in my life."
"Lucasfilm only ever considered Yen and Lee for the role."
"I think Will Smith would have probably been good."
"Stephen King considered for voice of Root Beer Guy."
"Olivia Olsen got Marceline role through her father's connection."
"Flame King voiced by Primetime Emmy Award winner Keith David."
"Honestly, how could you cast Winkler in a meta comedy and resist a gag like this?"
"Viggo Mortensen as a villain would be huge - he's a world-class performer and could bring an intimidating presence to the role."
"Peter suggested Jamie Bell - it was just an inspired suggestion."
"Turner got the news that she snagged the role of Jean Grey on her way to an audition, which she subsequently cried through the entire time out of happiness."
"Emilia Clarke's in the show, and I think she's going to be playing the Skrull Queen, the main villain."
"Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy 15 is getting a feature-length full CGI movie starring Sean Bean and Lena Headey."
"I think John Krasinski would make the best fit for Mr. Fantastic."
"William Jackson Harper would literally knock it out of the park as Reed Richards."
"It doesn't make desperate attempts to make you laugh, it just does it so naturally with its witty script and the talented cast who handle the material so well."
"It's amazing me how good of a cast they had but like how terrible the acting was."
"The cast just speaks for itself, this cast is so ridiculously talented and good looking."
"There's no lack of great trans performers out there that could play the crap out of this movie."
"Sean Bean, who plays Ned Stark, was one of the very first actors cast."
"Mark Hamill in Master of Orion: A galaxy of talented voice actors."
"I got incredibly excited when we first heard that Christian Bale was going to be portraying Gore the God."
"Deadpool 2 is absolutely gonna happen they are making this movie they are now casting there's apparently six actresses who name still under wraps who are testing for Domino."
"I think Hondo fits so perfectly into this kind of show."
"The Incredibles 2... certainly it's a very impressive cast Brad Bird's coming back."
"The title role went to 14-year-old Mayim Bialik."
"I think that's John Waters' biggest strength, his writing and his eye for casting the right people."
"Even when you do look at it as a complete product, I think Stellan Skarsgard was the perfect casting for the Baron."
"I'm really excited to see Willem Dafoe as Green Goblin again. I'm a happy man."
"Black Panther reigns with style, a stellar cast, and real-world relevance."
"Javier Bardem as Stilgar is such a great casting, holy [ __ ]."
"I really loved the inclusion of Jon Favreau in this movie."
"She's being played by the Bear's IO ediberry Jackie Chan is playing Splinter and the movie seems to be bringing back a lot of fan favorite characters from the cartoon."
"Rupert Grint was confirmed for the role of Ron."
"I figured he was either crazy or perfect for this show, or maybe both."
"Would Adam Driver be a good choice to play Reed Richards? You're damn right he would be."
"Ben Affleck as Batman... this dude's for real and he's going to be a great Batman."
"They did it just right like casting Steve Z obviously he's so great."
"Some of the casting directors in LA, you say 'I'm doing a play with Jack Lemmon,' 'No, I'm not going to go, I know Jack's work,' it's like, 'Yeah, but you don't know mine.'"
"I happened to land the role because I gave the performance that they needed for this particular dub."
"Putting Nicolas Cage in the role of Pennywise would show his range and truly terrify us."
"‘Cause this company, this cast is so diverse and all the roles that we wish we’d seen growing up are in every single Queen."