Allison Jones (Award-Winning Casting Director)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Allison Jones (Freaks and Geeks, The Office, Veep) is an Emmy Award-winning casting director. Allison joins the Armchair Expert to discuss growing up an Irish twin in Massachusetts, her first casting job on Family Ties, and how her love of TV prompted her move to California. Allison and Dax talk about the cast of the Golden Girls actually only being in their 50s, how the highlight of her career was meeting Quincy Jones while casting The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, and why jumping a car over another car is less scary than doing standup comedy. Allison explains the number one mistake actors make in auditions, why McLovin is still the most difficult role she’s ever cast, and how she stays hungry and dialed-in after over 41 years on the job.

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0:06.5	Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:10.0	Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts.
0:14.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert.
0:16.4	Experts on expert.
0:17.7	I'm Dan Shepard, joined by Lily Padman.
0:20.5	Hi.
0:20.8	Per your request, you spearheaded this, and I'm so grateful you did.
0:24.5	Yeah.
0:25.0	She was so delightful.
0:26.7	Allison Jones. She comes up a bunch over the years.
0:30.8	She's helped numerous people in their careers.
0:33.9	She's a casting extraordinaire.
0:35.8	Yep. She's an award-winning casting director.
0:39.1	Just, you know, a few of her impossibly long resume.
0:43.6	Barbie, Veep, the office, freaks and geeks, career enthusiasm, parks and rack.
0:48.9	She does all mic stuff.
0:50.5	Basically any impossibly great comedic ensemble where you're like, where did they find all
0:56.1	these geniuses? It's almost always going to be Alison Jones. It is. Her track record is so insane.
1:02.4	And it goes so far back. I didn't realize that. It was fun to learn about like the early. Golden
1:06.3	Girls. Yes. Yeah, really, really cool. And then just a sweetheart.
1:11.6	Love her.
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