Stunt casting is a term in casting that refers to hiring of well known actors, such as movie stars, to play bit parts on television series and in films. Stunt casting now also occurs in Broadway productions. Stunt casting makes roles traditionally played by character actors unavailable to them. Examples of stunt casting include Peter Cushing and Alec Guinness in the first Star Wars film A New Hope, and Marlon Brando as Jor-El in Superman (film).
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“All we know
Is that we are a little early, that
Today has that special, lapidary
Todayness that the sunlight reproduces
Faithfully in casting twig-shadows on blithe
Sidewalks. No previous day would have been like this.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)