Is there a law regarding the use of American versus Australian actors?
No there’s no law about this. I can use as many or as few Australians as I like. I could use all American actors if I wish but there’s no point to this. There’s a huge talent pool of actors in Australia. For the Natalie Wood project we only brought over a few actors from the U.S. The rest of the actors were found by our casting director, Ann Fay at Maura Fay casting, who we were really happy with. Even though it is still called Maura Fay Casting it is now headed up by her sister, Ann Fay. Maura passed away about a year and a half ago. Ann is terrific and knows every actor in Australia and New Zealand. She has a very efficient operation with offices in Sydney, Melbourne and the Gold Coast. I like the actors down there because they seem to have good training. And a lot of them continue to do theater. I’ve worked with a lot of good Australian actors, such as Rachel Griffiths. Q: Do you get very involved in the casting process? Yes. Absolutely. We look at the actors the casting director ha
