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Nobody becomes known if they don’t have their first time. I think it is not bad at all.

• synu 4y ago
  It's not necessarily bad if you have someone amazing in charge of casting, but it's really hard to build a cast out of people who nobody has heard of who it turns out are actually incredible talents. Known actors are a known quantity in that regard, which is why it's safer to go for them. Normally you'd expect there to be some on a big budget project that isn't taking risks around quality.
• prepend 4y ago
  For me, it’s not that there are any unknown actors, it’s that every single one is unknown. I like seeing “fresh” actors because they are unknown. LOTR had many unknown actors and lots who later went on to notoriety (eg, Karl Urban). But they also had some known. My apprehension isn’t that there are any unknown, but that all are unknown. And I think that’s a bad thing for a $400M project. Kind of like startups. I’ve met some great people who were working for their first company ever. I’ve also worked with some terrible people who didn’t work out. To get small funding this happens all the time. But to get $465M in funding with a leadership team that’s entirely new is unusual.