{"id":2178884,"date":"2025-11-27T14:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2178884"},"modified":"2025-11-27T14:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:02:11","slug":"exclusive-the-artist-creator-aram-rappaport-on-casting-patti-lupone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/exclusive-the-artist-creator-aram-rappaport-on-casting-patti-lupone\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | \u2018The Artist\u2019 creator Aram Rappaport on casting Patti LuPone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F11%2F116241479.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A-listers Assemble.<\/p>\n<p>Aram Rappaport scored some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, including Mandy Patinkin, Patti LuPone, Janet McTeer and Hank Azaria, to star in his new murder mystery series,<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DLaT3OzUQ5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \u201cThe Artist.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMandy came first and I think he turned it down first, and then we came back to him with an appeal that he should look at this like a comedy,\u201d Rappaport exclusively told The Post. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt read very dark and depressing, and I think that\u2019s not something he necessarily wanted to do. And so when we decided it would be sort of a love story between him and the wife, it was something that he was very passionate about ultimately.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Aram Rappaport in his interview with The Post. <span class=\"credit\">celebrity.land<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The poster for \u201cThe Artist.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">The Network<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cAnd then a lot of the other actors, I wrote for them,\u201d he continued. \u201cPatti LuPone, I sort of begged for a meeting and I just said, I really would love for her to just meet with me and I can just talk about what she wants to do and that I can write something for. And so that\u2019s how a lot of that came about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Artist,\u201d which is airing on Rappaport\u2019s free streaming service,<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stream.thenetwork.stream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> The Network,<\/a> also stars Danny Huston, Hank Azaria, Zachary Quinto, Clark Gregg, Ever Anderson and Katharine McPhee. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Patti LuPone in \u201cThe Artist.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">The Network<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Zachary Quinto in \u201cThe Artist.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">The Network<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Danny Huston in \u201cThe Artist.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">The Network<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The series is set in the Gilded Age and features an ensemble of the era\u2019s celebrities who are all suspects in the death of an eccentric tycoon.<\/p>\n<p>Rappaport took an \u201centrepreneurial\u201d approach, especially with LuPone, 76, to roundup the cast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPatti was on Broadway at the time, so she could only work on Mondays,\u201d he recalled to The Post. \u201cSo that was like, \u2018All right, what are we going to shoot with her only on Mondays? Oh, these characters work on Mondays, let\u2019s organically craft a role for her that makes sense to shoot it that way.\u2019 So a lot of it was that.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Danny Huston in \u201cThe Artist.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">The Network<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Ever Anderson in \u201cThe Artist.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">The Network<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Hank Azaria in \u201cThe Artist.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">The Network<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rappaport also revealed that he was surprised by every actor who said yes to being in the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s like constant imposter syndrome. You\u2019re just like, \u2018Why do you like this and why do you want to do it? You have a million things you could do, why this?&#8217;\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI constantly had that thought, especially days when everyone\u2019s there and you have every star at a dinner table, and they all in their own right could have been starring in the show alone. And it\u2019s like, why are you here?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Part 1 of \u201cThe Artist\u201d premieres Thursday on The Network. Part 2 premieres on Christmas.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A-listers Assemble. Aram Rappaport scored some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, including Mandy Patinkin, Patti LuPone, Janet McTeer and Hank Azaria, to star in his new murder mystery series, \u201cThe Artist.\u201d \u201cMandy came first and I think he turned it down first, and then we came back to him with an appeal that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2178885,"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":[25174],"tags":[350497,359343,21741,348117,419447,383020,419448,419449,22205,21913,374118],"class_list":["post-2178884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-casting","tag-clark-gregg","tag-entertainment","tag-hank-azaria","tag-janet-mcteer","tag-katharine-mcphee","tag-mandy-patinkin","tag-patti-lupone","tag-television","tag-tv","tag-zachary-quinto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Exclusive-\u2018The-Artist-creator-Aram-Rappaport-on-casting-Patti.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178884","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=2178884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2178886,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178884\/revisions\/2178886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2178885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}