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GET THE CASTING RIGHT

by Dave Trott

Film experts (chuyên gia) consider (coi) The Man Who Would Be King to be one of John Huston’s finest films.



He’d been trying to make it for thirty years, waiting to get exactly the right actors (diễn viên) to play the two main parts.

Eventually, he settled on Sean Connery and Michael Caine in the leading roles (vai chính).

One day during filming, Connery said to Caine, “Have you noticed something unusual about the way John’s directing us?”

Caine said, “No, what?”

Connery said, “Well he isn’t, directing us I mean. He hasn’t said a word about how he wants our characters played.”

Caine said, “You’re right, I’m gonna pull him on it.”

So he went to John Huston and said, “We’ve been on this picture a month and you haven’t said a word to us about how you want our characters played, what’s going on?”

John Huston put his arm round Caine’s shoulder and said, “Michael, you only have to direct an actor when you’ve got the casting wrong.”

I always loved that quote because, for me, that’s how you run a creative (sáng tạo) department.

It’s all in the casting or, in our case, the hiring.

What Huston is saying is if you get someone who thinks the same as you, someone who wants to do it the way you do, then you don’t have to tell them what to do.

...As Alf Ramsey said to Jack Charlton, “I’m not looking for the best players, I’m looking for players who can play the way I want.”

So what I was looking for was hungry young creatives who wanted to learn.

Not fresh out of college and looking for fun, but creatives who’d been rejected by other agencies and couldn’t get a job, or creatives who’d been working at a bad agency for a year or so and were desperate for a break.

...Of course, getting the hiring (casting) right isn’t always fool proof, nothing is.

But as Damon Runyon said (paraphrasing the Bible), “The race isn’t always to the swift nor the battle always to the strong. But that’s the way to bet.”

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