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Quick Quote: Why U.K. theatre director Rupert Goold cast Jonah Hill in “True Story”

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Director and screenwriter Rupert Goold poses at the premiere of "True Story" during the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on Friday, Jan. 23, 2015, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP)

PARK CITY, Utah – “We had James (Franco) first up, and I found it difficult to cast the other role I actually have to admit…I just needed someone who was inherently sympathetic and who would deliver a kind of soulfulness and vulnerability and I think, for all his kind of high velocity kind of comedy, I think there is something in Jonah that is quite…he’s very good at playing a damaged quality… I’m really interested in shame in men and how that manifests itself in both of these characters. I thought Jonah would bring a nuance to that.”

— U.K. theatre director Rupert Goold at Sundance on casting Jonah Hill as a fallen journalist in his feature debut “True Story”

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Lindsey Bahr, www.twitter.com/ldbahr

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