Sentence examples for casting coup from inspiring English sources

First, there is the casting coup of Oscar winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Lear.

The crux of the action occurs in Europe, when Eastwood's casting coup kicks into high gear.

Reilly said Bacon's hiring for the midseason drama The Following was the casting coup of the year.

So when this opportunity came along, I thought, 'Why not?' " Clearly she had a hand in the season's biggest casting coup, Mr. Newman's appearance in "Ancestral Voices".

In a frankly inspired casting coup, Linklater puts Jack Black in a moustache and suit as the oleaginous Tiede; and refuses to make any attempt at discerning his inner motives.

That said, the film is a casting coup, with Blanchett's inherent languor — plus that low drawl of hers, a breath away from boredom — played off against the perter intelligence of Mara, whose manner, as always, is caught between the alien and the avian.

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(The current M.C. is Jon Secada, who doesn't represent the apex of the show's casting coups).

Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling – in one of those WTF casting coups that shouldn't work but somehow does – are hard man and henchman on the trail of a missing girl.

Prayuth cast the coup as necessary to restore order and security in a country dependent on international trade and tourism, but the overthrow of elected leadership — the 12th since Thailand's absolute monarchy ended in 1932 — was encouraged by the conservative political opposition that saw Yingluck's subsidies to farmers in the impoverished north as pandering to secure votes.

This leads us to Burns's other great coup: his casting.