“Don’t use that. I don’t ever take credit for discovering anybody, except for McLovin on Superbad.”
The casting director is being characteristically humble. In fact, Jones is not only the reason that Christopher Mintz-Plasse was plucked out of an L.A.-area high school (a friend’s mom suggested he respond to the fliers that had put up around school seeking “nerdy high school boys”) and thrust into the spotlight as the scrawny, fake-ID-procuring sidekick in the 2007 Seth Rogen comedy, she’s also the reason that an ungodly tall and gawky commercial actor named Timothy Simons is now better known as Jonah on HBO’s Veep.
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This just goes to show that theatre really is a gut-feeling thing. Jones seems to cast based solely on her intuition and gut feeling about the person. She used Mintz-Plasse as an example. He wasn't brilliant during his audition and apparently he actually sucked, but she saw the potential. This was a real diamond in the rough situation. The best you can do is just try to make an impression and get some representation of your talent across to the casting directors. I think this also applies to the other side of the spectrum. Sometimes a design just comes to you out of nowhere, and you just go with it because you feel that it it right. It wasn't a thoroughly thought out process, but it seemed like a good idea. Of course, sometimes things don't always work out great, but other times it works out way better than you could ever have imagined.
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