The casting director

Tony Scott

was a little broad, and I kept looking for the right feel and right tone for this character, and I'd seen a movie called... It's a lie, I hadn't. My casting directors had this movie called Zebra, and they said, look at this kid called Michael Rapaport. So we needed a guy who was a little bit of a klutz, and I saw Rapaport and Zebra, and he was great, perfect. So...

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Tony Scott

But he's charming and he's funny, and I thought, God, he came in and read for me, and after the first reading, I just turned to my casting director and said, it's his, he's got it, this guy's great. But he's got that impish little leprechaun smile, but at the same time, and he's got those sweet eyes, but very dangerous eyes at the same time.

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that was taking place i believe in memphis tennessee and he lived in northern mississippi and uh... his mom encouraged him to go ahead up and and try out for the film ellen lewis our casting director brought this tape out to us in los angeles and we were all i mean you had a big smile on your face because you had just seen this unique character that so far you hadn't seen anywhere and so we invited a number of boys out for uh... uh...

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Darren Aronofsky

Mark Margolis was actually cast by our casting director, Denise Fitzgerald. She ran into him in a supermarket and told him she had a perfect role for him. And he was like, there are no perfect roles for me. But he came in, read, and once again we cast him on the spot. He was perfect for the role. I thought he actually was too young when I first met him, which is amazing because...

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Alexander Payne

came back to L.A. and auditioned a lot of guys, I don't know, 40 or 50 guys, something like that, that just I saw, much less the casting director. I went back to Omaha and called him up, called up the front office at the high school and asked about this guy and called him up at home and said, would you mind coming to the Omaha Film Commission office to read for a movie? And he almost didn't believe me, but he came and I just showed him some sides and

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