00:00If we go over there and you go over here, we'll be so much better at this.
00:12One of the actors that I think I saw something early on in would be Chris Pratt.
00:17He had done an audition for me years ago, which I thought was very noble and kind of heroic,
00:23and it really stuck with me.
00:24And that led me to think, even when he didn't want to initially do the role in Guardians,
00:29that he could be the right guy, had to convince him and then had to convince James,
00:33and he ended up being a perfect one.
00:35I would say Margot Robbie in Wolf of Wall Street.
00:39It was a challenging role to cast.
00:42We read many, many actresses for it.
00:45When Margot came in to read for Martin Scorsese, we kind of knew right away.
00:50Maggie Gyllenhaal came in for this tiny part she couldn't have been more wrong for,
00:55but she came in and did this incredible reading of this minute three-line part,
01:01and you thought, okay, that's something.
01:07My proudest casting moment, I'll say the latest one, is probably Detroit.
01:11This was a very difficult movie to cast, really intense just because of the storyline,
01:18but rewarding in that we got to cast a lot of new young actors.
01:22I'm proud this year of the ensemble nature of Beauty and the Beast, from top to bottom.
01:27All of those actors who had to sing as well as that did an amazing job,
01:31and that was really satisfying.
01:33Probably Star Wars.
01:35It was really exciting to find these two pretty unknown young actors
01:40who've really taken the story forward into a whole new area,
01:43and the audience has gone with them, and I feel really proud of them.
01:47I think in terms of diversity, I think we're no longer kind of leading the conversation.
01:55I think the studios, the producers, they're starting to lead the conversation,
02:00so that's kind of nice.
02:02Very, very lucky on Avatar that everybody's blue.
02:05We had a lot of challenges with that, and to this day, the agents call up and go,
02:09well, yes, but what ethnicity?
02:12They're going to be blue.
02:13It doesn't really matter.
02:14The male-female ratio in scripts is so often, when it's written by a man,
02:18so many more male roles in the script than female roles in the script,
02:21and I always like to, early on, with the director and producer,
02:24sit down and just say, there's this many men, there's this few women.
02:27That's where we can flip that, so that it doesn't come as a surprise later
02:30when you're constantly trying to up the female side of it,
02:34because it should really be 50-50 if we're reflecting the world we live in.
02:40One thing I'd like to change about Hollywood is I would like to see the stories
02:43that are being greenlit and financed be more reflective of the diverse world that we live in.
02:48The right questions are starting to be asked.
02:51Why couldn't this person be more or less anything, a man, a woman, a different race?
02:56Why can't we open up our thinking?
02:58And I think those questions are definitely now being asked.
03:04One thing I wouldn't change about Hollywood is that I hope that movies keep getting made.
03:08I love television, but I love the experience of going into a movie theatre.
03:13I've really enjoyed some parties in Hollywood.
03:16I hope they stay as they are.
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