Allison Jones has a thing for nerds. The Emmy-winning casting director isn't sure why, but she gets a little giddy when someone smart, offbeat and goofy walks into her audition room.
"I just can't get enough of them," she tells The Hollywood Reporter. "They're pure souls and they try hard and they get shat on when they shouldn't."
Jones fell for a scrawny, bespectacled Christopher Mintz-Plasse after he faxed her his headshot, and cast him as McLovin in Superbad. She called Rainn Wilson a "home run" when he tried out for The Office'...
"I just can't get enough of them," she tells The Hollywood Reporter. "They're pure souls and they try hard and they get shat on when they shouldn't."
Jones fell for a scrawny, bespectacled Christopher Mintz-Plasse after he faxed her his headshot, and cast him as McLovin in Superbad. She called Rainn Wilson a "home run" when he tried out for The Office'...
- 9/14/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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