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Envelope Directors Roundtable: Kathryn Bigelow on casting ‘The Hurt Locker’

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When you’re making an intimate character study, how do you find just the right performer? Perhaps even more pressing when you’re Kathryn Bigelow making “The Hurt Locker,” how do you approach your producers and tell them you’re hiring a relative unknown like Jeremy Renner to star in your picture?

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