Casting directors Rebecca Wright (Chuck Chuck Baby, Call the Midwife) and Lucy Jordan (The Lesson, Poor Things) discuss their careers and approaches to casting.

Rebecca Wright CDG CSA has worked in the entertainment industry for over 30 years. Starting out as an Assistant Director in TV and Film, she moved into the wonderful world of casting in 1998. After gaining invaluable experience working alongside some of the most esteemed Casting Directors in the UK, she set up her own company, Rebecca Wright Casting, in 2011. She casts for TV and Film, and has cast many TV dramas including Call The Midwife, Sanditon, Britannia, Rillington Place and Thirteen. More recently she has cast independent feature films Chuck Chuck Baby and Madfabulous.

https://www.rebeccawrightcasting.com / @beccawrightcdg

Lucy Jordan is a casting director with over a decade in the industry. She has frequently collaborated with director Yorgos Lanthimos, including on the Academy Award-winning The Favourite and critically acclaimed Poor Things, as well as on Lanthimos’ newest feature Kinds of Kindness. Lucy was casting director for Alice Troughton’s The Lesson, and most recently on Meta’s first ever scripted VR series The Villa, for Eli Roth’s Crypt TV. In 2023 Lucy partnered up with fellow casting director Shenae Rae to form Jordan & Rae Casting, working in TV and film with some of the UK’s top production companies.

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Recorded on 2nd October at The Garden Cinema
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