In Reply to: Are you a retired casting director? * posted by Billy Wonka on April 25, 2020 at 13:31:21:
How could you tell?
Like Tom Cruise playing Jack Reacher. Only about 80lb and 10 inches lacking from the way the author wrote the character.
Could I have cast it better? Yes, from some aspects, but the producers were going for some box office MoJo.
Too much is never enough
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