Bonus Episode - Killer Casting

Real Crime Profile

Real Crime Profile / Wondery

True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

4.2 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the premiere episode of Killer Casting. Love deep diving into the best shows and movies out there? Does no one understand your fascination with analyzing acting, dissecting dialogue, scrutinizing structure, wondering about wardrobe and yes...wittering about wallpaper? Then you are in the right place! Join Real Crime Profile's Lisa Zambetti (casting director for Criminal Minds), Brian Alan Hill (casting associate The Purge, Sneaky Pete, 12 Monkeys) and Dean Laffan (tv buff extraordinaire) as they dissect the shows they love to binge. Dark and twisty, weird and wonderful, we will cover everything you should be watching.

This week we introduce you to the amazing FX show "Mr. Inbetween", an Australian crime show with a breakout performance by Scott Ryan as an unflappable hit man. The casting story behind this show is as unique as the show itself.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Real Crime Profile ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:07.5	There's a scene in Godfather 2 where Diane Keaton is having this forbidden visit with her two children.
0:14.3	She's been banished from the house from their lives, so she's
0:18.1	frantically drinking them in as she steals these precious moments.
0:22.7	Connie, her sister-in-law is desperately urging her to wrap it up because Michael is coming home.
0:28.4	So she escapes out the kitchen to the back door, but she has to turn one last time to kiss them.
0:36.1	Her son is holding back. He's selling. He's hurt. Maybe he's scared to give her any affection.
0:41.0	And she says, Anthony, please kiss me once.
0:46.0	Then her face drops.
0:48.9	Michael has appeared in the kitchen doorway and the look on his face is
0:54.8	it's inscrutable. It's not placid, but it's vivid.
1:00.6	Anything could happen. Like he is feeling everything and nothing.
1:07.6	So Al Pacino was about 30 years old when he was cast as Michael Corleone and he was not the first choice by a long shot.
1:14.6	Copa Loanid him, but the studio wanted Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, guys like that.
1:19.9	So Pacino test it and test it and test it for the role.
1:24.0	Along with other actors like Martin Sheen, James Con, Robert De Niro.
1:28.8	But Copa had a very smart editor, Marsha Lucas, and she said, you know, Pacino undresses you with his eyes.
1:38.6	So casting is a collaborative process and many voices chime in their ideas and opinions.
1:44.8	But credit must be given to casting directors Jane Feinberg, Mike Fenton and Vic Raymos.
1:51.6	They have to get credit for putting these actors in front of the director for putting them on the radar in the first place.
1:58.2	So back to the scene. So Michael's face betrays nothing.
2:02.8	But everything is there like shock at seeing her hanger that is being disobeyed hate.
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