Casting Director Admits To Using Her Job To “Affect Change” In Viewers And Manipulate “Their Unconscious Bias"

Casting director Sophie Holland, who has worked on a number of big name genre projects including Netflix’s Wednesday, The Witcher, Shadow and Bone as well as Prime Video’s The Peripheral recently revealed how she uses her position to push her own political worldview.

During an interview as part of Jenelle Riley’s Acting Up newsletter that was subsequently published by Variety, Holland was first asked about which project confirmed she wanted to work in the field of casting.

As part of her answer, she said, “I think the first time I felt like a casting director was when I worked on something called The Kill Team by Dan Krauss, which was the story of American soldiers over in Afghanistan. It was the first time I understood that casting wasn’t just about finding beautiful people who could do the American accent convincingly, but that casting could have a real, profound impact on the people watching it.”

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