Paul Giamatti and newcomer Dominic Sessa were no-shows at the Toronto Film Festival premiere due to Hollywood strike restrictions.
Payne added he told Sessa, a first-time actor fresh out of drama school, that he had been “deprived” of the immediacy of seeing a film festival audience watch his breakout performance, much as musicians and stage actors can connect with their audience.
During the post-screening Q&A, Payne explained casting Giamatti was a given to play the prep school instructor, but finding a young actor to play Angus Tully was a bigger challenge. He said 800 submissions for the role came in, and Payne viewed around 60 digital auditions, but without success. So he and casting director Susan Shopmaker decided to call up the drama departments of the schools where they were set to shoot the prep school dramedy. “And there he was, at Deerfield Academy… He’d never been in front of a camera. He starred in the drama department, a real ham,” Payne recalled.Features
nabbed the worldwide rights to the Miramax pic, excluding the Middle East last year as the movie played as part of an informal market and outside the main festival lineup.
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