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Envelope Directors Roundtable: Tailoring roles to specific actors

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Casting can sometimes influence directors who write their own scripts. For Jason Reitman, he lets the movie take shape as he writes but soon recognizes when an actor is right for the part, which then in turn influences the character’s development. For Quentin Tarantino, at least with “Inglourious Basterds,” he “didn’t have a clue who I was going to cast.”

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