stunt casting
noun [ mass noun ] informal
the practice of casting a famous actor or other celebrity in a small role in order to publicize or promote a television programme, film, or play. stunts aside, there's a bit of stunt casting in the picture that has also attracted attention.
Hey great! Can we stunt cast the wizard? Surely he has an axe to grind, if not a project to promote... does anyone know if he's still around?
ReplyDeleteMaybe just his hat?
ReplyDeletehttp://wizard.gen.nz/the-christchurch-earthquake/
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“Perhaps the most extreme example of the deliberate melding of the artist and the work is to be found in New Zealand….. The Wizard has established the personage he has invented to the point where his original identity is now completely effaced…. The most interesting aspect of the Wizard is the use to which he puts this carefully constructed identity. The actions of his invented personage are a sharp satire on established ideas of normality.” from ARTODAY by E.Lucie-Smith (Phaidon 1995)
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