As a casting director, discovering the right actor for the half can typically be a frightening job. That being stated, when a casting director is aware of they’ve performed their job properly, the business takes discover, and the award nominations begin rolling in.

However what if the film the casting director is engaged on is about their life?

Our sister platform Casting Networks determined to show the tables.

In varied articles interviewing casting administrators, Casting Networks asks friends who they might forged to play them in a movie adaptation of their lives.

From these articles, we pulled 4 2023 Emmy-nominated casting administrators who forged themselves of their hypothetical biopics. And their solutions vary from uncanny to off the wall.

Bernie Telsey: Excellent Casting for a Comedy Sequence, Solely Murders within the Constructing

Am I simply speculated to throw out a reputation like George Clooney and transfer on? [Laughs] I actually don’t know. This looks like one thing I’d have been requested up to now, nevertheless it’s not. I’ve had folks make the connection to Gene Wilder — God relaxation his soul — so I assume my reply can be a youthful Gene Wilder. I like to consider myself as an accessible and completely satisfied individual, which pertains to his work in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Manufacturing unit, for instance.

Jennifer Rudnicke: Excellent Casting for a Comedy Sequence, The Bear

It’s positively not one thing I usually take into consideration or might simply reply. However my enterprise associate and superb co-workers have instructed me that I’m like Lisa Kudrow. My husband, alternatively, thinks I’m extra of a Laura Linney. I’m honored by each of the comparisons — I’d take both!

Victoria Thomas: Excellent Casting for a Drama Sequence, The Final of Us

In an aspirational method, I’d like to have Regina King play me as a result of she’s simply so incredible. In an motion movie, it will’ve been the good Diana Rigg, based mostly on her work in The Avengers collection. For a comedy, it will’ve been Thelma Ritter.

Wendy O’Brien: Excellent Casting for a Comedy Sequence, Abbott Elementary; Excellent Casting for a Restricted or Anthology Sequence or Film – Bizarre: The Al Yankovic Story)

I assume it will be Laura Dern, solely as a result of I get instructed on a regular basis that I appear like her. We had been watching Jurassic World Dominion the opposite evening as a household, and my youngsters pointed it out. They had been like, “That’s creepy.” Even my husband regarded over at one level and stated the resemblance was uncanny. I don’t see it, however I get the comparability regularly. I assume she and I’ve aged collectively, although, so I’ve gotten it by way of all of the totally different phases of my life. However, she is the queen, so …

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