Roundtable: Casting directors

December 07, 2006 The Hollywood Reporter's Stephen Galloway recently sat down with six of the business' top feature-film casting directors to discuss the challenges of their jobs and their work on some of the biggest movies of the year. Participants were (pictured above, from left) Justine Baddeley and Kim Davis-Wagner (Fox Searchlight's "Little Miss Sunshine," MGM/The Weinstein Co.'s "Bobby"); Victoria Thomas (Warners' "Blood Diamond"); Debra Zane (Paramount/DreamWorks' "Dreamgirls," Warners' "The Good German"); Ellen Lewis Warner Bros. Pictures' "The Departed," Warner Independent Pictures' "Infamous"; and Mary Vernieu (Warners' "The Fountain," Paramount's "World Trade Center").

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