Casting

Giroux, played by Paterson Joseph, was out of London. Sophie from London. Jonny Lee Miller from London. Amelia Warner, who plays Una, we cast out of London. Marton from New Zealand. Really was a United Nations cast. And Pete. Oh, and Pete. Pete Postlethwaite. Great Pete. My God. You just look into his eyes and you just melt.

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Hats off to them. You got to do it upside down. It's very tricky. Don't leave him here. I could have a big trench where the guy tried to do it in my yard and it just does not work. I have a comment also on his performance. John, I thought he was a good casting choice for

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Roman Coppola

Remember him? Sriharsh. Yes. He was a pro. - Yeah. He was a pro. - We flew him in from Bombay. From Delhi. Yeah. Didn't he sing a Green Day song to you, Wes? We're gonna include Sriharsh's audition because he auditioned on tape and... We didn't really have a role for him, but we-- I just remember-- - He was just so good. He was so funny in it that we just brought him in and kind of made him a part of the operation. He's the De Niro of... Of India.

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Rob Cohen

a little bit of bridge building between mother and son, and now another abortive attempt at romance. Isabella, I totally love the way she looks in this sequence. You see the beauty of her face and the loveliness and the intelligence of her acting. This is a young woman who did not speak English, really, when I cast her.

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Wes Anderson

But he has such an interesting voice as a painter that this painting, it has a-- There's an aspect to it where you know it's not exactly a period painting, but he brought so much detail that is like Holbein, and the way he did the furs and the velvet. And he actually-- We cast a boy-- His name is Ed Munro. --who sat for him. And the whole painting was done-- Milena Canonero made a costume for him, and the boy sat for him. And anyway, he's a wonderful painter.

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And this woman, Fionn, she is so perfect. The extra casting in these scenes, it's a very big deal. You don't think much about it. But look at all the extras, especially the extras in the church. They're extraordinary. A shout out to all of them. It's one wrong extra can really take a scene apart. Everybody in this was really excellent and helping to convey. We came up with this right before. Improv.

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How'd you do that leaf? That leaf trick. Talk about the leaf trick. Who played the leaf? Who played the leaf? How many people did you audition for the leaf? It's funny, actually, because I feel like

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Tim Burton

Yeah, and then we never got the chance to do it. What happened? A boat accident. Arthur Conti playing Jeremy, I think I first met him. He was a friend of my son's. We went to school with him. But I didn't know he was an actor. I didn't know he was the grandson of Tom Conti. And then when we were casting Jeremy, Sophie, the casting director, sent in the tape, and one of them was Arthur, and so...

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