Uncover the Mysterious Power of the Ladybug Effect with Greg Porper – SYS Podcast Episode 535 Exclusive!
Ashley
Gotcha, gotcha. So, you mentioned Ed Beagley Jr. How did you get him involved in this project?
Greg Porper
So, Ed came aboard through, we hired a casting director, Ricky Masler. Ricky’s fantastic. And we had a short list of people we wanted to play the boss. And with this movie, there was a lot of improv that we wanted. We had a very set script, but the intention was to always utilize improv. And to have, let’s say we had three takes. First two were, you know, pretty much by the book. And then the third one, there was going to be alts. And I had like a whole book of alts. And we’re just going through the list of like, who are just some like really funny people? It’s, you know, again, it’s a quirky character. Like who fits this world? And it’s like Ed Begley Jr. was on our short list. And when we presented this to Ricky, she’s like, oh, I actually, I can get it to his agent. Like, I can’t promise anything, but like, I know who his agent is. So at least, you know, I know directly where to send it to. And so it’s not as cold of an email as it could be if she didn’t at least send something to him in the past. But it got to Ed’s agent. And we then got a call from Ed, who was like, I love this script. I want to do it. And I’m like pinching myself. I’m like, is this really happening? And he’s like, this is so funny. I just like, I want to be a part of it. And I said, like, seriously, like what’s happening right now? So we just got really lucky that, you know, first of all, he read the script, but that he loved it so much.
