Before he casts actors in his movies, producer Dallas Sonnier puts them through what he calls “the Louisiana cousins test.”These cousins of his are schoolteachers, HVAC installers, construction workers—just the kind of audience he thinks Hollywood has unwisely left behind. “If I text them the name of, let’s say, Timothée Chalamet, they don’t...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 15, 2018 16:09 UTC