The audition process doesn’t always involve a big dark room with a director and casting agent. After seeing Ellen Page in the indie film Hard Candy, Smart People director Noam Murro liked her for the role of overachieving Vanessa. So the two met not in Hollywood, but at a Burger King at the Newark Airport. Page flew in from Canada, Murrow from Pittsburgh. Murrow quickly realized she was the one, but it had nothing to do with their conversation or the way she ate her Whopper. As he recalls, “I saw her small figure and frame walking towards me and I just knew in that instant that she was the genius I was looking for.”
-- Whopper of a role (bottom of the, uhm, page) in Famous, March 2008
It's one thing to spell someone's name wrong. It's another to spell it right the first time, then spell it wrong the rest of the time.
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