The odd thing about casting the kind of (very) small time shows I'm involved in (but big time to us!) is that people, understandably, make the assumption that deciding who plays the 'big' roles (as people think of them) is the tricky part. Usually it's not. Generally you pick a script (assuming you're working from one) based on the fact you can visualise someone you've got in such roles. Because if you haven't got that someone, you're in trouble. Not that that means they automatically get the role, but they've got a pretty good chance. My guess is that whoever decided to make There Will Be Blood already had Daniel Day-Lewis in mind. It's difficult thinking of the film working without him. (And that is, unarguably, big time.)
No, it's what people regard as the minor roles that cause the problem. Because they're not 'minor' and the depth and texture of what you do depends on them. But you sometimes can't know what performers can do until they've done it.
So it's often a matter of glimpses, hunches. But here's an optimistic thought based on a few years of experience: whatever you catch a glimpse of in audition, you are guaranteed to get wholesale in performance - and usually, nearly always, better.
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