Maria Semple’s "Where’d You Go, Bernadette" Reflects on Casting Process

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Welcome to Word & Fim’s Casting Call, where we exercise our creative muscles by focusing our attention on extraordinary characters from exceptional books – either fiction or nonfiction – and make the case for how we’d cast those roles if given the chance. Note that, here at Word & Film, we’re not casting directors, nor are we producers, agents, or anyone else who has any say in how a film will be cast; we’re simply ardent fans of books and movies who can’t help ourselves from such musings.

For all its sandals-and-socks reputation as a free-to-be-you-and-me laid-back bastion of healthy-living, do-gooding thirtysomething gazillionaires, the upper-class precincts of the Pacific Northwest possess a rigid set of social codes. And any misfit or miscreant who dares break them will receive the passive-aggressive equivalent of a New England-style stake-burning. This subculture of sanctimonious helicopter parents and self-regarding tech nerds has been so exalted for its forward-thinking high-minded intentions, these model citizens had every reason to smugly believe they were above reproach.

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