The casting director

He loves ending and opening on exits, and he did it numerous times with Harrison, and such a master. And the cast, I had two extraordinary casting directors, a woman named Mallie Finn and a woman named Mary Selway.

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Mally is pretty much responsible for the actors who came from the United States, Mary Selway from the actors that came from Europe and Iceland, and then Ross Clydesdale who's responsible for the wonderful actors that came from Canada. So these three casting directors who really brought to one place these amazing faces and actors from all over the world

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Andrew Niccol

and coming up the mountains of Afghanistan. It was harder to find authentic looking extras, but I had a great extras casting director, Mito Skellern, who did an amazing job finding faces to populate the various countries that Yuri visits in the course of the film. That's not one of the extras.

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Well, originally... Outside to inside. No, originally, remember, we were going to cut. And you went, no, no, I want to do the whole... That's right. We had the whole thing set up. You had this idea a couple of days beforehand about these guys playing this game. We had our casting directors go actually to Chinatown. And they were just terrific. And they had such, you know, fantastic faces. Look at those guys. I love them. Again, listen to the footsteps, the tension.

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I think what is truly original in this movie is to put the focus on the family, instead of doing it in all the district. It was very important, the casting in this movie. The kids was one of the big things in the beginning, and Shaheen Baig, the casting director, she helped a lot, especially with the trainings that she had with a lot of kids from different schools. I think when you're assisting these trainings, you know, you can see clearly if the kid is going to respond and if it's going to work in the way that you're expecting.

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They got up there and got started before we did. So a lot of the good local talent up there got sort of sucked up by the bigger movies. But we were fortunate. The young girl, who I think is both very pretty and very good, who you're going to see at the door in a second, we found her in Toronto. Yes, Kristen Hager. She's great. And this is Johnny Lewis here. Yes. Mindy Marin was our casting director.

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