Interview With "After The Hunt" Casting Director Jessica Ronane

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

"After The Hunt" is a psychological thriller film directed by Luca Guadagnino and written by Nora Garrett that premiered at the 2025 Venice International Film Festival out of competition and opened the 63rd New York Film Festival. Starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny, it contains a number of powerhouse performances from big and small names. In our first casting director interview for this awards season (brought on by the fact that there is now a new Oscar for Best Casting being bestowed at the 98th Academy Awards), Jessica Ronane was kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about the nature of her job, her experience working on the film, and more, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in theaters from Amazon MGM Studios. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You were listening to The Next Best Picture podcast and this is my interview with the casting director for After the Hunt, Jessica Ronan.
0:07.6	All your generation, you're scared of saying the wrong thing.
0:10.7	When defending someone become the preeminent cardinal sin?
0:14.1	Maybe it's around the same time your generation started making sweeping generalizations about ours.
0:18.8	Whatever shame you have around self-expression, it is bullshit.
0:23.9	Bullshit.
0:27.0	You tend to choose people because they worship you, not because of any actual merit on their part. Maggie is brilliant.
0:39.3	Is she? Does she just think you're brilliant?
0:42.3	Hank's continued obsession?
0:46.3	We're friends always will be.
0:49.3	Here we go.
0:52.3	Talk to Maggie today. No, she wasn't in Climbabby. There we go.
0:56.9	Talk to Maggie today.
0:58.7	No, she wasn't in class.
1:00.5	No call, no show.
1:03.7	Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Next Best Picture podcast,
1:09.2	where I am being joined by the casting director for Luca Guaninos after The Hunt.
1:10.7	Jessica, Rona'am.
1:13.5	Jessica, thank you so much for joining me here today.
1:14.9	Very pleased to be here.
1:15.2	Hi.
1:18.9	Hi, and this is a very special chat.
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