THE GUYS FINDING THE PERFECT MEN IN THEIR LIVES.Byline: - Evan Henerson It's a romantic comedy, meaning you'll need at least a couple of guys, but they'll have to take second billing to the ladies-first feuding of Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore as mother and daughter. How do you find men for such an assignment? Selectively, ``Because I Said So'' director Michael Lehmann says. ``Tom Cruise isn't coming in to read for this,'' says Lehmann. ``It's a practical thing when you're casting a movie where the leading actors are the women. We can find people for these roles who are really good actors who haven't been overexposed o·ver·ex·pose tr.v. o·ver·ex·posed, o·ver·ex·pos·ing, o·ver·ex·pos·es 1. To expose too long or too much: Don't overexpose the children to television. 2. -- and who people can discover and who they're really going to like.'' For the roles of Johnny and Jason, the musician For the popular-music magazine, see . “Instrumentalist” redirects here. For followers of the philosophy, see instrumentalism. A musician is a person who plays or composes music. and architect who woo Moore's Milly, Lehmann ended up with Gabriel Macht Gabriel Macht (born January 22 1972) is an American actor. Macht was born in The Bronx, New York to Suzanne Victoria and actor Stephen Macht. He and his family moved to California when he was five years old. (``The Recruit,'' ``The Good Shepard'') and Tom Everett Scott (of ``That Thing You Do'' and TV's ``Saved''). And as Jason's father -- and the love interest of Keaton's character -- Stephen Collins
Stephen Weaver Collins (born October 1 1947) is an American actor. (``7th Heaven'') came aboard. Lehmann has been in this position before. For his 1996 comedy ``The Truth About Cats and Dogs Cats and Dogs A slang term referring to speculative stocks that have short or suspicious histories for sales, earnings, dividends, etc. Notes: In a bull market analysts will often mention that everything is going up, even the cats and dogs. ,'' he needed a man who could be convincingly caught between Janeane Garofalo's brains and Uma Thurman's beauty. ``I remember saying, `For this part, the guy's got the girl role,''' Lehmann says. ``We need to find an actor who can do it and who is willing to do it.'' Lehmann auditioned a then-unknown Matthew McConaughey and pre-``Grey's Anatomy'' Patrick Dempsey Patrick Galen Dempsey (born January 13, 1966) is a Golden Globe Award-nominated American actor who first became prominent in Hollywood during the late 1980s. He is also known for his role as neurosurgeon Dr. Derek Shepherd (Dr. . ``Then Ben Chaplin Ben Chaplin (born 31 July 1970) is an English actor who first came to public attention for his performance as Matthew Malone in the first series of the sitcom Game On. showed up, and I had no idea who he was,'' Lehmann says. ``The casting director said, `There's this English actor, and he's really good.' The more fun choice was to go with the guy nobody had seen, and people loved him in that movie.'' CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1) TOM EVERETT SCOTT (2) GABREIL MACHT (3) STEPHEN COLLINS |
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