{"id":2165526,"date":"2025-11-19T00:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2165526"},"modified":"2025-11-19T00:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:52:15","slug":"for-after-the-hunt-casting-director-jessica-ronane-having-julia-roberts-already-attached-only-opened-up-more-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/for-after-the-hunt-casting-director-jessica-ronane-having-julia-roberts-already-attached-only-opened-up-more-possibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"For \u2018After the Hunt\u2019 Casting Director Jessica Ronane, Having Julia Roberts Already Attached Only Opened Up More Possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When casting director Jessica Ronane<\/a> came on board to cast her second feature film, \u201cAfter the Hunt<\/a>,\u201d for filmmaker Luca Guadagnino<\/a> (the pair had previously collaborated on \u201cQueer<\/a>\u201d and will next partner on his OpenAI<\/a> film \u201cArtificial\u201d), she had the benefit of some major star power already in place: Julia Roberts<\/a> was signed on to play the film\u2019s central character, the inscrutable Yale professor Alma, caught in the midst of an abuse scandal that threatens every part of her life.<\/p>\n

For a casting director, having such wattage attached from the outset could have proven complicated to the rest of the casting process, but Ronane found it actually freed her up to have some more fun. During IndieWire<\/a>\u2019s recent Crafts Roundtable discussion, presented in partnership with Amazon MGM Studios, Ronane shared a bit about her process assembling a relatively small cast around such a huge star.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Julia already attached,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When casting director Jessica Ronane came on board to cast her second feature film, \u201cAfter the Hunt,\u201d for filmmaker Luca Guadagnino (the pair had previously collaborated on \u201cQueer\u201d and will next partner on his OpenAI film \u201cArtificial\u201d), she had the benefit of some major star power already in place: Julia Roberts was signed on to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2165527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2165526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/For-\u2018After-the-Hunt-Casting-Director-Jessica-Ronane-Having-Julia.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165528,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165526\/revisions\/2165528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2165527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}