Casting memories
Lenore Zann, who plays Rogue, didn’t initially audition but went to callbacks. She got it immediately. Wolverine’s Cal Dodd had a similar experience. Both felt their casting was meant to be. Alison Sealy-Smith, who plays Storm, is a Shakespearean actor who connected to Storm as a Queen. She quickly felt that they had similar natural strengths; they both “go big or go home.” Beast actor George Buza is a comic book nerd who read the script and knew it was X-Men immediately which was like his Star Wars.
