Nearly 50 years ago, an unknown actor went into Universal Studio’s New York casting office to read for a television movie. Afterward, legendary agent and casting director Eleanor Kilgallen told the young man, “Let me introduce you to some people,” and so Judd Hirsch got a brief tour of the place.
“There was a little guy behind a desk in a cubicle working on a movie and on his desk was a shark,” Hirsch recalls. Kilgallen offered a succinct introduction: “And this is Steven Spielberg. He’s going to be very big.”
That little bit of networking didn’t pay dividends — it didn’t register for Spielberg and was forgotten by Hirsch until the memory was jostled loose when director called and invited him to play Uncle Boris in Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans.”
Hirsch says he doesn’t know what prompted Spielberg to turn this crucial role — “the messenger for...
“There was a little guy behind a desk in a cubicle working on a movie and on his desk was a shark,” Hirsch recalls. Kilgallen offered a succinct introduction: “And this is Steven Spielberg. He’s going to be very big.”
That little bit of networking didn’t pay dividends — it didn’t register for Spielberg and was forgotten by Hirsch until the memory was jostled loose when director called and invited him to play Uncle Boris in Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans.”
Hirsch says he doesn’t know what prompted Spielberg to turn this crucial role — “the messenger for...
- 1/10/2023
- by Stuart Miller
- Variety Film + TV
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