When it came to casting for Chernobyl, it wasn't just about looks. In fact, casting director Nina Gold says she continuously found herself returning to a simple phrase: 'But do they *feel* Russian?'
In trying to re-create the nuclear disaster in 1986 Ukraine, casting director Nina Gold says she drove her colleagues crazy with the phrase, “But do they feel Russian?” To Gold, that Slavic quality was more a feeling than something that could be articulated. “We tried to get people to not be people-pleasing,” says Gold. “There was no need to make the audience like you.
” Tenner’s goal for convicted murderers Richard Matt and David Sweat and their ally, Joyce “Tilly” Mitchell, was to hire actors who would ground the material. “You really needed somebody for Tilly who was uninhibited and would not bring any vanity into it,” says Tenner about Patricia Arquette. In Benicio Del Toro, Tenner knew she had someone who could turn on a dime. “Matt was handsome and charismatic,” she says.
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