After seeing Pearce's audition, Sullivan settled on casting him immediately.
He first came to international attention when the record company EMI got wind of his stage success in his native Sweden, and immediately cast him as Dimitri, the young pretender, in a groundbreaking recording of Boris Godunov (1952), with Boris Christoff in the title role.
That September, Peter Hall brought Comedians to the Old Vic (then the National's base), for a two-week run that Rea says was a career "liftoff" into leading roles; the NT immediately cast him as Christy Mahon in The Playboy of the Western World.
Series creator Chris Carter felt that Ivanek's audition "just blew [him] away", deciding almost immediately to cast him.
Andy was originally supposed to appear only in the first season, but the producers liked Pratt so much that, almost immediately after casting him, they decided to make Andy a regular character if the show was renewed.
Andy Dwyer, Pratt's character, was originally supposed to appear only in the first season, but the producers liked Pratt so much that almost immediately after casting him, they decided to make Andy a regular character.
Immediately, a hotshot director casts him as the lead actor for an upcoming Viking biopic.
