Lesson: Casting Doubt Considering "color-blind" and nontraditional casting decisions, based on a revival of "Death of a Salesman" with an all-black cast.
Is Eisenberg the right fellow to take on the man of steel, or do you fully expect this latest casting decision to act like Kryptonite on the movie's box office prospects?
To earn the designation, a producer must meet standards that consider supervision of the script, contribution to casting decisions and presence on a set, among other things.
And on top of that, a lot of casting decisions are made based on who is already singing where, and not based on the singing itself.
Green, a filmmaker with a fondness for coming-of-age stories dating to his 2000 debut "George Washington," was enlisted to direct three episodes, including the pilot, and has played a hands-on role as an executive producer, helping nail down the tone and weighing in on casting decisions.
"I know they deliberated hard on the casting breakdown language and on the casting decisions," Mr. Campo said.
She added that actors are often typecast due to their physicality, and casting decisions aren't always made on whether they are seen as attractive.
Hytner believes he cannot impose strictures, that directors' casting decisions have to be based on their own instincts: "I am very interested in gender-blind casting and often think it is excellent.
Frankly, Sam Taylor-Wood's film, which was always going to stand or fall on its casting decisions, is in trouble from the first appearance of the beefy, blue-eyed Aaron Johnson, who plays Lennon, and who resembles him as much as, say, Anthony Hopkins looked like Richard Nixon.
