Jason Reitman Discusses Assembling the ‘Saturday Night’ Cast at TIFF24 Premiere

[Applause] wow all right this is the biggest you ever had is Jason even here Jason where first I'm not a Canadian then I don't exist coming from this is insane thank you all for being here for this incredible screening of Saturday night and uh we've got a ton of incredible Talent on stage this must have been what have felt like at the end of the first show right the music picks up and everybody's out hugging um Jason let's start by just hearing from you about putting this cast together to tell this incredible iconic story when I told people the idea they would always go oh that's a good idea how the are you going to cast that and fortunately we had John papsidera his extraordinary [Applause] film my dad film film for the last decade and he introduced me to a lot of you and for the ones I already knew he introduced me to a whole new side of you um

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