One Movie After Another: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Casting Director Tells All

Paul Thomas Anderson is so accustomed to working with the same people on movie after movie that his Wikipedia entry has a special chart devoted to his frequent collaborators, ranging from actors Luis Guzmán and Philip Baker Hall and editor Leslie Jones (three movies each) to costume designer Mark Bridges and casting director Cassandra Kulukundis, credited with nine collaborations each.

But when it comes to Kulukundis, Wikipedia is wrong: She’s actually worked on all 10 of Anderson’s movies, from 1996’s “Hard Eight” to “One Battle After Another” almost three decades later. And now that she’s a nominee in the first-ever Best Casting category, Kulukundis — whose non-pta movies include…