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One of Fincher\u2019s most enduring collaborators on not being defined by Citizen Kane, and knowing your history...<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/header>

225<\/span>LARAY MAYFIELD, CASTING DIRECTOR<\/span>: <\/span>\u201cI probably didn\u2019t see Citizen Kane until I started working with Dave in \u201987 or \u201988. I\u2019ve watched it a couple times since then, but I didn\u2019t watch it before I started casting Mank. I wanted to have an open approach to the casting. The physicality in casting Mank is so important\u2014to be believable in that time period. Citizen Kane is so amazing and so specific. I wanted to go into it with a palette that was not so defined by that movie.<\/p>

When Dave and I first started talking about Mank, it was in 1997. When we started talking about it this time, Ce\u00e1n [Chaffin, producer] was at the office, and said, \u2018Oh guys, wait a minute\u2014I\u2019ve got something to show you.\u2019 And she had this notebook that I had made in \u201897 with all the lead characters. It was great to see that, because we had put a lot of thought into it. When we finished the movie, I went back to that notebook, and I put in the pictures of the actors that we actually cast for each role, and gave it back to Dave.<\/p>

My process for casting was to read the script and then break out all the roles. If they\u2019re real people, like in the case of Mank, I do all that visual research (that I did in \u201997). Their ages, and just getting the history. Then Dave and I sit down and start talking. I have all the freedom to suggest anything, and really talk about it. I think there are a lot of people that we\u2019ve cast in roles, that Dave did not know who they were until I introduced them. In some cases, I didn\u2019t know who they were either. What\u2019s interesting is being able to go and cultivate, and find as many actors and auditions as you can.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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227<\/span>LARAY MAYFIELD, CASTING DIRECTOR<\/span>: <\/span>\u201cTom Burke was great as Orson Welles, so understated and subtle. He embodied that role. The thing with Dave is, he never wants somebody to mimic somebody. You\u2019re paying homage to that person, but with your own twist to it\u2014which makes it more realistic, keeps it from being a caricature.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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