{"id":72469,"date":"2025-05-02T13:08:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T17:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=72469"},"modified":"2025-05-27T13:09:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T17:09:17","slug":"director-paul-feig-reveals-how-blake-livelys-glowing-recommendation-played-a-key-role-in-securing-brandon-sklenars-casting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/director-paul-feig-reveals-how-blake-livelys-glowing-recommendation-played-a-key-role-in-securing-brandon-sklenars-casting\/72469\/","title":{"rendered":"Director Paul Feig reveals how Blake Lively\u2019s glowing recommendation played a key role in securing Brandon Sklenar\u2019s casting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"60\" data-end=\"260\">Brandon Sklenar is getting a big break starring alongside Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney in the upcoming movie <em data-start=\"175\" data-end=\"190\">The Housemaid<\/em>. But interestingly, it was Blake Lively who helped him land the role.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"262\" data-end=\"544\">Director Paul Feig shared this story on the <em data-start=\"306\" data-end=\"326\">Happy Sad Confused<\/em> podcast. He said that while he had already picked Amanda and Sydney for their roles, he was still looking for the perfect actor to play the male lead. That\u2019s when Blake Lively stepped in with a glowing recommendation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"546\" data-end=\"849\">Blake had just finished filming <em data-start=\"578\" data-end=\"595\">It Ends With Us<\/em> with Brandon and told Paul Feig, \u201cYou have to meet this guy\u2014he\u2019s amazing.\u201d Curious, Feig invited Brandon to lunch. After just half a minute, Feig was hooked. He called Brandon \u201cthe most charismatic guy you\u2019ve ever met\u201d and said he\u2019s incredibly talented.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"851\" data-end=\"1101\"><em data-start=\"851\" data-end=\"866\">The Housemaid<\/em> is based on a bestselling thriller by Frieda McFadden. The story is about Millie, a homeless woman who gets hired as a housekeeper for a seemingly perfect family. But soon, dark secrets start coming to light behind their closed doors.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1103\" data-end=\"1348\">Even though the movie was tough to shoot\u2014only 34 days and more than 200 scenes\u2014Feig said the cast was fantastic and always delivered their best. He\u2019s really excited for everyone to see it and confirmed that the film will be released in theaters.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1350\" data-end=\"1690\">Thanks to Blake Lively\u2019s recommendation and Paul Feig\u2019s direction, <em data-start=\"1417\" data-end=\"1432\">The Housemaid<\/em> looks set to be a gripping, edge-of-your-seat thriller. Brandon Sklenar\u2019s career is definitely on the rise, proving that sometimes landing the right role comes with a little help from friends. Keep an eye out for <em data-start=\"1646\" data-end=\"1661\">The Housemaid<\/em> when it hits the big screen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Sklenar is getting a big break starring alongside Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney in the upcoming movie The Housemaid\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":72470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[26274],"class_list":["post-72469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-brandon-sklenar"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}