Jordan Raynor sits down with Mark Fincannon, an Emmy Award-winning casting director, to talk about how casting a TV show works week-in week-out, the incredible story behind casting End of the Spear (the story of Jim Elliot), and how Christians can “impose hope” rather than their explicit faith in film.

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Mark Fincannon
Emmy Awards
Steven Spielberg
George Lucas
David Lynch
Ray
The Blind Side
Sandra Bullock
Homeland
Dawson's Creek
One Tree Hill
Nashville
End of the Spear
Jim Elliott
Oscars
1917
Parasite
Fox
The Resident
CBS
NBC
Wells Fargo
Dick Clark
Killers Three
Bonnie & Clyde
Peanuts
Stroker Ace
Burt Reynolds
Loni Anderson
Frank Capra Jr.
Stephen King
Firestarter
Dino De Laurentiis
It Happened One Night
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
King Kong
De Laurentiis Entertainment Group
Wycliffe Bible Translators
The Mission
From the Earth to the Moon
HBO
Tom Hanks
NASA
Ray Charles
C.S. Lewis
The Case for Christ
Mike Vogel
Aaron Sorkin
The West Wing
Carly Fiorina
Netflix
Disney+
Michael van Dyke
Paradigm
Ralph Winter
X-Men
Same Kind of Different as Me
Greg Kinnear
Renée Zellweger
What's So Amazing About Grace?
Philip Yancey
Rory Noland
Heart of the Artist
Willow Creek
Bill Hybels
The Devil is in Pew Number Seven
Rebecca Alonzo
Anthony Hopkins
The Two Popes
Fred Rogers
Hollywood Reporter Roundtable
Maxwell King

Mark Fincannon (Emmy Award-winning casting director)