Casting 2 Con Francis Ford Coppula Portable [2021]

Coppola rarely casts based on a monologue. He prefers .

Coppola recounts the moment he realized De Niro was the one. It wasn't in a flashy monologue; it was in the silence. He speaks about De Niro's audition where he didn't say a word—he just was . He had the internal danger that Brando possessed, but with a distinct, feral hunger that suited a young immigrant rising through the Lower East Side. casting 2 con francis ford coppula portable

Even in the late 1960s, Coppola was experimenting. For The Rain People (1969), he took a portable camera and a small crew across America, casting non-actors he met along the way. This was : raw, real, and revolutionary. Coppola rarely casts based on a monologue