Jonathan Levine’s Total Wackness
Lessons learned in landing one of the world's greatest actors for The Wackness
by Jonathan Levine
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/directing/article/the_wackness_ben_kingsley_jonathan_levine_20080630/
The prospect of meeting Ben Kingsley is a daunting one for any director, especially a man of such limited talent and eloquence as myself. So when I heard the news that Sir Ben had enjoyed my script for The Wackness and would like to meet me in Vancouver, my excitement was tempered by an immediate pang of terror.

I recalled the episode of “The Sopranos” in which Sir Ben attempts to blow off Christopher and his mob cohorts as they push their script onto him. Needless to say, I hoped my meeting would go a bit better than that...