When Mr. Duhamel first spotted it, it was an "inédit," meaning it had never been cast.
"If I hadn't done the accent work, I would have never been cast in this film," she said.
Like other blacks, Ruben Burch had long noticed that blacks had never been cast as Joseph, Mary or Jesus.
(Ms. Vandlen has in the past auditioned for commercials, but had never been cast in one, and her Medifast spots, like others in the campaign, were unscripted).
Despite such exposure in the roles, before 1965 she had never been cast as any of the three Brünnhildes at Bayreuth, probably in part because of her familiarity with the parts.
"I've never been cast as a 'silly little woman', a waif," she says, "because of assumptions about my education and the way I speak".
In China "special venom" was reserved for the works of "Shashibiya" during Mao's cultural revolution, not least because his wife, Jiang Qing, was a former actor who had never been cast in a Shakespeare role – though, as Dickson observes, she would surely have made a formidable Lady Macbeth.
Mom had never been cast in anything her whole life, but I still listened to her advice: "Remember to speak loud and clear!" That would be a cinch.
Throughout her career, Winslet has almost never been cast as a modern girl.
