July 12, 1999
Polish Wedding: An ethnic casting primer
1: So this family is, what? Polish?
2: Polish.
3: What about John Turturro? What's he?
1: Jewish.
2: No, he's Spanish.
1: Anyway, he's too dark for Polish. What about that Scottish guy?
2: Aidan Quinn?
1: The other guy.
2: Gabriel Byrne?
3: I didn't know he was Polish.
1: He's Scottish.
2: He's Irish.
1: But he can do Polish. What about the mother? She has to be sexy. But old-sexy.
2: What's her name. From that Cuban movie. With Redford.
3: Lena Horne.
2: Lena Olin.
1: What is she, Cuban?
2: Spanish.
1: She could be Polish. Wasn't she Polish in that thing with that guy with the title and the sex?
3: She's definitely sexy. And she's old. She's definitely old-sexy.
1: She's in. What about the daughter?
2: Juliette Lewis.
1: Whiter.
3: Winona Ryder.
1: Whiter. We need someone to balance out all the Spanish types.
2: Claire Danes.
1: She's white.
2: She could do Polish.
3: Put a blonde wig on her.
1: In a blonde wig. She could look Polish.
3: What does Polish look like?
1: I'll tell you what it looks like: Claire Danes, Lena Horne and Gabriel Byrne!
2: Olin.
1: Yes!
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