We'd have actors signed up and then find them backing away.
Mr. Balaguer, the talent agent, said that five years ago he never would have advised actors to move to Miami.
Ars Nova's artistic director, Jason Eagan, didn't even balk when Mr. Malloy added further hurdles: The show would have 10 actors, would require a transformation of the theater's space, and ideally would include free vodka.
Stoppard no doubt hung around a lot backstage as a journalist in Bristol – he would have seen actors filling in time.
Playing a leading role with wonky gait and appalling lines – "No" and "Caesar is home" pretty much sums up his dialogue – would have most actors running for the hills, or at least their agents.
DreamWorks didn't have to pay through the nose for LaBeouf and Fox as they would have for actors like Matt Damon and Drew Barrymore.
By the end of "A Civil Action," he has practically driven himself to madness by demanding justice -- if this were a movie, the character would have "best actor nomination" written all over it.
You would have the actor really there, you would have these guys on stilts representing Tharks and you would have people in green gimpsuits making sure they didn't fall over and hurt themselves.
He received many letters asking for advice, & would select one of them, & have actors in an adjoining studio dramatize it.
Any films started later than mid-April would risk having actors walk off the set come June 30, if a strike materialized.
