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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why Casting Kpop Demon Hunters Was an ‘Incredibly Brutal’ Mission for Producers · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood. Clearly producers conjured up a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of magic when they cast Reyami e j and Audrey
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  Speaker 1: Nuna to sing as Hunter Tricks in K Pop Demon Hunters,
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  Speaker 1: but don't think it was just a stroke of luck.
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  Speaker 1: It was actually incredibly hard to find the right women
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  Speaker 1: for the job. Demon Hunter's producer Michelle Wong described the
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  Speaker 1: casting search as absolutely bruto to Deadline, saying, we had
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  Speaker 1: three casting directors and did a search around the world.
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  Speaker 1: What was challenging for our movie was that we obviously
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  Speaker 1: needed all of our talent to be Korean. We wanted
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  Speaker 1: them to be bilingual, and we wanted them to sing,
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  Speaker 1: and that just doesn't happen. Actors say, oh, I can sing,
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  Speaker 1: but when you hear our songs not at that level.
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  Speaker 1: They're a mix of musical, theater and pop and they
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  Speaker 1: need to be able to sing in emotional ways. By
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  Speaker 1: the way. She also adds that Hunt Tricks never even
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  Speaker 1: met or sang together during the making of the film,
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  Speaker 1: recording their parts individually, but they sure crushed it. K
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  Speaker 1: Pop Demon Hunters is on Netflix that's direct from Hollywood.