[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Re: Please, No....

[CLShannon at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/23/03 5:32:10 AM, suzloua at hotmail.com writes:

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But his directing talents are not what's under debate here. It's the casting. 
Obviously I can't know for sure, but I'd put a fair bit of money on Chris 
Columbus having little to no power in the casting arena. He's just there to 
milk his postition for his daughter ;) and tell Ron "Scared! More scared! 
Even scareder!". >>

Actually, Columbus had quite a lot to do with the casting of Daniel, at least 
that's the story I've read in more than a few places (Entertainment Weekly as 
an example). He worked with the casting director and auditioned many kids and 
the story is that the casting director got frustrated and said, 'I just don't 
know what you want!', whereupon Columbus pointed to a DVD on the shelf with 
Daniel's picture on it (it was David Copperfield) and Columbus said, 'that 
kid, I want him..' . I'm paraphrasing here, but the articles I've read have 
the exact quotes. 
And David Heyman seeing Daniel at the theater with his parents happened 
either right after this or at the same time because Heyman was also 
determined to talk to Daniel's parents about having Daniel audition. Heyman 
met with all of them for tea and the rest is history ;-)
Cindy