Louisa Levy on casting John Tucker via THR
“One of the things we did for Tucker, for example, is one of the audition scenes was a future scene that may never get shot because we haven’t written that season, but it was a future version of Tucker beacuse we wanted to see [how that would look] when we were auditioning people. I changed his age order. He’s the youngest now, which is different, to be able to get to his season and have him still be in college. Some of the people we auditioned felt very young, which felt right for this season, but we wanted to make sure that there was range available.”
“One of the beautiful things about Jalen is that he has that range already in him. He’s ready for that. We can see season one Tucker, and we can also see season four Tucker, so [we know] that we have room to grow with him.”