Richard: "[Jonathan] offered me tickets to go and see it, and I resisted because I knew if I saw the person playing Hugo in the theatre, I would never have had the courage to go and do it myself.
I would have constantly thought, they should've got that guy because he's so much better than me!"Jonathan: "I pursued them and begged!
Sharon has such wit, charisma, and complexity about her. I wanted to find somebody with those attributes and Sharon was just perfect.And then Sarah was the most perfect piece of casting for me because Sarah does small like nobody else does small.
I just knew she understood that mother and the community she comes from.When I met Richard he said to me, 'why me?' Which is a great question from an actor to a director..