“I stepped away from L.A. and moved back to Australia when I was pregnant with my fourth child, so there were a few parallels with Helen Smallbone’s story,” Betts said.
“What stays with me really is when I feel like I’m in the presence of an artist… that you just realize, “Oh, this person’s really special. There’s something really that I can’t touch, I can’t talk about it, I can’t equate, but I feel it,” Papsidera said.
Wright enrolled at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts but left after two months. “I learned it the old apprentice way, just working on the stage,” he said.
“You really want actors to do well. We want everyone to come in and do their best and do well and surprise us,” casting director Lucy Bevan said.
“What I do try to do is stay close to a feeling that I think is appropriate,” White says.
“It’s one of those things where you open up the audition and you’re like, ‘Sure, I’ll tape something but who knows…’ And then I just kind of kept going up the chain, I couldn’t believe it. It felt kind of pie in the sky of a national tour,” Nagraj said.
In the sequel, we’re back to familiar territory of New York City and even better, the original cast is back with much bigger roles.
“[Braff] is a comedic ninja and to have our lead guy also be a super talented filmmaker in his own right? It was amazing to have that presence on set, just as a sort of a spiritual brother,” Wright said.
As a young actor, Wright had the opportunity to work with the Academy Award winner when he asked Poitier for his advice.
Director Christopher Wheeldon’s choreography bristles with energy, especially with the big ‘Thriller’ number towards the end of the show.
Cooper points out that because he is playing Bernstein at three different ages, he had to approach his portrayal in three different ways.
Butler confesses that he always feels nervous about taking on new projects and how he will perform the particular character.
“Method acting is a sort of … No,” the Oppenheimer star said.
“Sometimes there’s a mistaken belief that I can just show up and roll into it,” she says.
Any film that has the brilliant actor Stephen McKinley Henderson in it is tops in my book.
Sessa, who had just finished performing in his school’s production of “Rumors” by Neil Simon, was scouted by casting directors searching for locations and potential background actors.
Cumming, Oakley-Green and Young, discuss the impact of filming on location in Scotland, the challenges of learning a new language and the unique audition process they went through for their roles.
Stephens, who brilliantly brings Bluey to life, says the show has been an “incredible experience and journey” for her as an actor.
McKellen also opens up about his approach to acting, including noting the worst experience he ever had making a film.
“The goal was not to trick people into thinking I’m a little boy,” Pedrad says. “It was really to disappear into the character and play it as earnestly as I could.”
