The entry begins:
The producers of Buried Strangers have finished packaging the film. Gage took the opportunity to interview one of his characters about the casting.
LG: Claudia Andrade, you’re going to be played by a relative unknown. How do you feel about that?
CA: I’m pissed off. Let me ask you a question. Did you have anything to do with it?
LG: The casting? No, I wasn’t consulted. I only wrote the book, and in Hollywood—
CA: I asked you a simple question. I didn’t ask for one of your long-winded explanations. Stop hogging my air time. Whose interview is this anyway?
LG: Yours. Sorry. Why are you pissed off?
CA: I’m pissed off because they went out and got Tommy Lee Jones for Silva, Leonardo DiCaprio for Hector, Ben Kingsley for Horst Bittler and then chose that (expletive deleted) Fernanda Torres to play me. What’s wrong with this picture?
LG: Ha! Well, to start with, Buried Stangers, the movie, is a picture about--[read on]
Leighton Gage has been a copywriter, an advertising creative director, a magazine editor, and a writer/producer/director of documentary films and industrial videos. Read an excerpt from Buried Strangers and learn more about the author and his work at Leighton Gage's website and his Crimespace page.The Page 69 Test: Blood of the Wicked.
My Book, The Movie: Buried Strangers.
--Marshal Zeringue
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