The Secrets of the Ensamble Film

In creating the structure of an ensamble film with a lead, was there any insight or anything you learned in doing that? Or what was the trickies part? The first big thing i did was figet wi my protagonist was. Tried to figure who would be the most supportiveho who were different enough from him. And then once i had that, i was able to sort of go through the i sand which which characters are ing to play off of him best for ti this team and what they have in common.