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when you get back to the editing room and take a look at it? If you don’t shoot everything you want to shoot, do you need to make an adjustment in the story or the script or what you plan to shoot the next day or in the coming weeks? For me personally, that’s extremely stressful and can be agonizing because you can dream that you are ruining an entire project by making one or two small decisions.” One of the best decisions Green and his crew made was by choosing Ella Purnell in the lead role of MacKenzie. It’s always difficult casting young actors and especially difficult to cast young actors in roles that have to carry a film. Green recalls meeting with a few casting directors and young actresses in Los Angeles, but not seeing anyone right for the role. In his hotel room after the meetings, he turned on the television and saw Never Let Me Go which featured Watch an interview with Joseph Stephans, Producer New Jersey Stage January 2015 pg 66