00:00As a fan of just Hollywood and film in general, I was tickled that Homer actually has a reference
00:04to American Gigolo. I thought that was kind of cheeky and meta.
00:07Fernando Scarfioti, the production designer. American Gigolo.
00:14I'm not the only one who doesn't get it.
00:15I think it's visionary. Ferdinando Scarfioti is a genius.
00:19Did that ever come up that maybe he wouldn't want to do that? Or was it kind of the fun
00:22of some of these casting choices?
00:24You know, we didn't set out to cast anybody with any sort of cultural resonance. This really was,
00:28I mean, Kai was the first who was cast, but then we really did the old school audition process,
00:34which is what we just did for Love Story, in-person auditions, mix and matches. I mean,
00:39people out there don't understand that everything's done on Zoom now. It's just not the same.
00:43We really believe in the screen test and also the chemistry between characters. And Ryan
00:48understands that. Homer obviously came in and you're aware, oh, this is, you know, who he is.
00:54And, um, but it only started to hit us later, what, that there was some sort of cultural
00:59reference because he himself is just so charismatic and so enigmatic. He's a really nice guy
01:06underneath it all, but boy, can he play mystery and what's really going on underneath it. And he
01:11was just the person that we all lean forward towards. And we already had all these references
01:16to this very specific time in the eighties. And so they ended up landing on top of each other,
01:22but it wasn't intentional. And yeah,
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