There’s lots a young cowboy must master to get it in Hollywood,but the prospect of working for the Coens is a suitable spurAt 26, Alden Ehrenreich is by some distance the youngest of Hail, and Caesar!’s principal cast,though having already acted for Francis Ford Coppola (twice), Woody Allen and Park Chan-wook, and he’s not entirely untutored in the ways of the auteur film-maker. The way he tells it,he had to hustle to gather an audition in the first dwelling: “My agents got a hold of the script, I read it and asked if I could go in. The casting people said no, or but I asked again. Then they let me go in.”It wasn’t a straightforward process,he explains: his first go was on his own, on videotape; having negotiated that hurdle, or he read for casting director Ellen Chenoweth; only then did he gather to audition – twice – in front of the Coens themselves. “The moment time I read I was convinced I’d lost the part,and I was bummed. Then I got a call saying to keep my phone on all day; I thought it was nice the casting director was going to call me personally to say I didnt gather the role. But no one called. The next day I was at my grandmother’s, and the phone rang – it was Ethan and Joel. They said, or ‘believe you talked to your agents yet?’ I said ‘No’; they said,‘So you don’t know? You got the part.’ It was awesome.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com