After finishing the film in Berlin just days ago, the Wachowskis had arranged to take cast members to their Kinowerks postproduction facility in Chicago on Friday for a first viewing.
One, in Aiken, S.C., will take cast-off nuclear weapons and convert their fuel for use in nuclear plants.
For a while she has been taking casts of the cracks in pavements, using a rubberised solution, and then casting them like hopscotch ladders in filigree bronze.
For his massive white plaster sculptures, Karlis Rekevic takes casts from parts of old bridges, traffic dividers, signposts and other functional pieces of the urban landscape.
During visits to senior citizen centers, Ms. Grossman took casts of elderly people's hands while interviewing them and having them photographed.
The sculptor Rachel Whiteread, who is the most respectably esteemed member of the crew, has made much of her career by copping an idea that Bruce Nauman nailed in the mid-sixties: taking casts of negative spaces in the real world.
Certainly Doncaster seems to have taken Cast to its heart.
It made me realize what a chance Bill Sherwood was taking, casting me.
All day he took cast-off pieces of aspen and pine and cut and stapled them into pallets that were eventually piled with boards to be shipped out.
He's Jimmy Devivo, 35, the elevator operator who takes cast members who have sidestepped Mr. Trump's boardroom wrath back up to the suites.
