Casting director Sarah Finn has been Marvel's longtime secret weapon: She's the one fielding thousands and thousands of auditions to populate Hollywood's biggest film franchise. Over the years, she's ...

Ask a casting director about their job — usually her job — and you will hear words like intuition and alchemy. Ideally, they work closely with their director to create the human canvas of a project.

Behind the Wizard of Oz in the two-part “Wicked” movies were people actually pulling the strings. They set the table for the hit double-punch movies long before the cameras ever rolled out: The ...