From an interview about casting chemistry with Casting Directors Amy Lippens & Stephanie Laffin…?
Amy Lippens: There’s a longer rehearsal process, so if something really isn’t working in theatre, they can replace the person. Stephanie has a really good story about our new pilot, which is now called All Rise, like “All rise for the great judge.” It’s a law pilot directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and written by Luke Reiter, and it’s almost finished being shot in New York.
Stephanie Laffin: Alan Tudyk needed a love interest on the show. I met Alan when he was just out of Juilliard, and we always wanted to work with him. We had tested the role to play his love interest once and then sort of went back to the drawing board and tested again, and everybody weighed in, and they were like, “Can you take us one more step? Because we want to make sure that this is a realistic relationship.” So we ended up having to do a screen test with them in our office. [The actors] both went for it to the point that it felt like you were seeing into their relationship.
Lippens: They made it steamy because they had to, because it was a love scene of them together just getting into bed and talking about things. It was just Stephanie and I in my office. Stephanie had to film it, and we’re normally not those people. We got a little embarrassed. But the actress, Christina Vidal, got the part. And her character is in a relationship with Andrew Lincoln. It’s an interesting trio because she works for one and is having a bit of an affair with another, and he’s sort of a rival. She really showed in both of those things that she could have chemistry with both the leads of the show, which is fantastic.
- Source: http://www.backstagewest.com/…