Sentence examples for insisted on casting from inspiring English sources

She had insisted on casting Dirk Bogarde; nobody else had thought he was much good.

There are "money guys" willing to back the latest project, he said, but they insisted on casting and final cut.

Oddly, this was an experience she was rarely allowed to repeat, as Fox insisted on casting her against weak-tea types like David Wayne ("Millionaire"), Donald O'Connor ("There's No Business") and Tom Ewell ("Seven Year Itch").

He made his 1983 feature, "Dark Habits," with money from the industrialist Jacques Hachuel, who insisted on casting his wife, Cristina Sánchez Pascual, in the starring role of a wayward dancer who enters a convent.

(NBC Universal which owns E!, has said that it pays employees fairly and equally). Jenny Han is the author of To All The Boys I've Loved Before, a book that was turned into a movie released on Netflix in August; Han insisted on casting an Asian American actress to play the main character and ultimately made the movie with the only production company that agreed with that vision.

He soon insisted on casting her opposite him in every movie.

There was the usual moaning about the novice fishermen, often nicknamed googans, and the ones who ignore fishing etiquette and insist on casting their lines across others'.

In contrast to Mark and his fellows, they are a more capable group insisting on casting themselves as dispossessed.

Just as this movie has restored LiS's faith in an industry that insists on casting Gerard Butler, it has also restored our faith in American film journalism.

Directly assuming the Oedipal challenge, Van Peebles fils plays Van Peebles père as domineering, narcissistic, obsessive and insensitive toward his family -- particularly when he insists on casting Mario, then 13 (played by Khleo Thomas), as Sweet Sweetback in a flashback in which the character loses his virginity to a prostitute.

And if they insist on casting a provisional ballot, it will go uncounted".