Revisiting casting director Avy Kaufman

Maltin on Movies

Leonard Maltin

Comedy, Jessie, Leonard, On, Tv & Film, Maltin, Movies

4.2 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Avy Kaufman’s name should be familiar to anyone who reads credits, as we do. She has cast scores of films and television series, from The Ice Storm to Succession, and launched many a career along the way. You can hear the pride in her voice when she recounts how she brought young Haley Joel Osment to meet the star and director of The Sixth Sense. Recent credits include some of the most talked-about television shows of our time: Mare of Easttown, Under the Banner of Heaven, Billions, and Fellow Travelers, which could earn her a fourth Emmy Award. (She has three: one for Damages and two for Succession). Avy wears her passion on her sleeve and that makes for great conversation.

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0:29.6	Hi everybody, I'm Leonard Malton.
0:38.6	And I'm Jesse Malton.
0:40.3	You're listening to Malton on movies.
0:47.3	And our guest is someone that if you read credits, as I do, you have seen this name again and again.
0:49.4	And over.
0:50.1	And almost always on really good movies.
0:53.6	And now, first-rate TV shows and miniseries.
0:57.0	And her name is A.V. Kaufman. Hello.
1:00.9	A pleasure to be here. A true pleasure.
1:03.7	Oh, well, you are a casting director, par excellence.
1:07.4	Yeah.
1:08.0	And the irony is that you are a three-time Emmy Award winner. Yeah. And the irony is that you are a three-time Emmy Award winner. And at one time,
1:16.6	we wouldn't have been talking about television with you. We would have only been talking about feature films.
1:21.6	Yeah.
1:22.6	True.
1:23.6	And it's amazing, because obviously when we speak to different actors, different directors,
1:28.3	one of the things that comes up most often is the fact that now TV for many people is the place they want to be
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