Meet Narmar Hannah on the 8 Sided Forum!
Sometimes, life offers up a particularly delicious experience. For example, every so often we meet one of those people our friends have been talking up - and they turn out to be even more delightful than reports were suggesting. Meeting those people is almost always like reacquainting yourself with a childhood friend - you've got some catching up to do, but you have a common tongue.
Both Gerard and Christie have worked with Narmar, and both of them have swooned over how talented and fun she is. Either we didn't think to contact her before the first round of Heartsgaard auditions, or she had other commitments... Either way, when Gerard and I started weeding through the NowCasting submissions for our second go, her headshot was right there in the digital pile. Naturally, this prompted another conversation about how great Narmar is. Naturally, I kept his enthusiasm at a cool, professional distance. (Not an easy task for me - enthusiasm is one of the bonds shared between Gerard, Christie and myself!)
As soon as she walks in the door for her reading, everyone gets hugs. Enthusiastic hugs, no less! Having completed her lap around the casting lobby, she settles into a chair and starts sassing me, comfortable and loose as you please. Somehow this woman is already a member of the cast, and I'm the last to know? What's going on here?
Then, she tears into the script and offers up the most complete, generous, and vulnerable reading we'd seen for the Lawyer in two full rounds of auditions. Did Gerard or Christie coach her into showing me what I wanted to see? If they did, they'll never tell. Besides, it doesn't matter.
What is there to say? It's all true! Her kind heart, her wicked smile, and her taste for glory are part of what makes her perfect for the role of Casey. Her mind is easily quick enough to see the vision behind our plans, and her soul is hungry enough to help bring that vision into reality.
When something's right, the worst thing you can do is second guess it. Narmar Hannah is one of us, and among us she's precisely the one for whom Casey and the Lawyer were written.
Welcome home, old friend!
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