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

Something like "Freaks and Geeks" is working very closely with Allison Jones, our casting director, and just throwing the doors open wide.

“I think the gift of being a casting director is giving another human being the space to show you who they are, and to pick up on all of those really important human aspects that enable somebody to really be a good storyteller,” she says.

“A casting director is hiring an actor to be the vessel for this story and there is nothing better than sitting across from somebody in a room and really getting a sense of who they are.”

“We’ve decided to go in a different direction” was the standard line Hollywood casting director Tess Sanchez delivered for more than 20 years.