Marcia Shulman was casting director on Buffy. She started out working on Sesame Street before realising she wanted to be a casting director. In the late 80s she was involved in the New York independent film scene as a producer and a casting director. Marcia has also casted the movies From Dusk Till Dawn III: The Hangman’s Daughter (which starred Ara Celi - Ampata in 2.04 Inca Mummy Girl) Bullet, Saints and Sinners, Johnny Suede, Vampire’s Kiss and the TV shows Dilbert, Felicity, Dawson’s Creek and Clarissa.
Gail Berman, the Executive Producer of Buffy approached Marcia to cast for Buffy. Marcia says:
“I actually wasn’t interested, because I didn’t want to come to LA. I’m a New Yorker and that’s where I wanted to stay. But I read the script, and I was so excited by it - I thought it was brilliant. The funny thing is, when she conceptually pitched it to me, it was not something I felt would be interesting to me.
I came to LA, sat in a room with Joss - and we really clicked. We both had a very historical sense of who these [characters were]. I talked to him about casting ideas but all the people were dead, because they were such classic characters in a sense. Even though I knew he wanted to make it all very hip and modern, the prototypes were very classic for us, and we had the same prototypes. Considering these were dead actors, that was pretty extraordinary.
So he hired me right then and there and we went to work. Buffy really completely changed my life because I went from casting and producing films to casting for television, becoming the Head of Casting at Twentieth Century Fox studios, and then becoming the Head of Casting for the Fox Network - and it’s all because of Buffy.”
Related episodes: 1.01 Welcome To The Hellmouth
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