casting director

When Mazin and Druckmann asked her to drive to casting director Mary Vernieu’s Santa Monica office in 2023, Dever went in thinking it was going to be an audition, much like the one she had with Druckmann years ago when there had been talk about turning the game into a movie.

It was casting director Isabel Cortázar who first saw Cruz Guerrero’s potential, and in mid-2023, asked him to audition for the part.

Our casting director, Mark Saks, mentioned Carrie as someone who was available coming off of “True Blood,” but we remembered her even more from a small part she had in the excellent Tony Gilroy movie “Duplicity.”

I would have given anything for a casting director to have spotted me and whisked me away to Hogwarts to play the iconic witch.

Obviously, it's the casting director's job, but how are you as a director cultivating that intimacy?