Hollywood Shuffle (1987)

Lisa Mende: Casting Director

Photos 

Quotes 

• Casting Director : Richard, its an important film. And its a film that can make the right actor very, very famous. We're looking for charisma. We're looking for sex appeal and yet innocence. We're looking for that certain 'je ne sais quoi'. Do you know what I mean?

• Casting Director : That's our Jimmy. That is our Jimmy. Jive. Tough. Charismatic. That's our Jimmy. Very black.

• Casting Director : I have another very good idea. Could you tell him to be a little more - you know.

  Director : Yeah, Bobby - Bobby, I need a little more black. You know what I'm saying? Like, stick your ass out, bug the eyes, you know how to move, you know.

  Bobby Taylor : Yeah, jive - jive ass. Jive ass. Jive ass.

• Casting Director : What we're looking for, Miss Strickland, is the girl friend of the brother of the main character. She has to be tough, but sensitive. She knows life and yet she's very naive at the same time. Of course, she has to be very, very Spanish. We're looking for a very "West Side Story" kind of look.

• Casting Director : Relax! But, I need some tension at the same time. But, not too relaxed. But, don't forget to give me sparkle.

• Casting Director : I want you start reading from the top of the page - and I want you to give it to us. But, really give it to us.

• Casting Director : There he is. He's the one we want!

  Bobby Taylor : I just want to be me. I don't want to be Eddie Murphy. I just want to be me. I just want - I he-he-he!

  Writer : Yes!

  Bobby Taylor : Get da fuck outta here.

  Director : That's what we're looking for.

• Casting Director : What we're looking for - is an Eddie Murphy type.

  Director : We want somebody who can act like Eddie Murphy, from head to toe. That's what we want.

  Writer : Someone who can dress like Eddie Murphy. To look like Eddie Murphy. To *be* Eddie Murphy.