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So I did use a lot of actors from previous projects, people that I know, brought on, you know, from just other projects and actors that I’ve met over the years, friends that are actors, that sort of stuff. So that was definitely some of it.
But, you know, as a middle-aged dude, I don’t know a lot of, you know, hip young actors in their twenties now. And that’s who my leads were. The male and female lead are both in their twenties, you know, just recent college graduates.
So I did not have like a large reservoir of people to pull from in my own life. I just don’t know that many young actors anymore. So we had to go out and cast a lot of the roles. I would say more than half, three quarters of the roles, we had to go out and actually cast.
