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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, Robert Devall. Everyone kind of agreed that, yeah, we
want him as Tom Hagen. So there was like there
was really no debate about that. The role of Kay Adams,
there wasn't much of a fight for from the studio
there either. Coplo wanted Diane Keaton, not only because you know,
she's a great actress because but also she kind of

(00:23):
has like a waff like a wasp wasp fish look
to her, which is what the character called for. Right Diane,
to this day, she's still amazed that they cast her
in the role, claiming that she felt like she didn't
fit in with the rest of the cast, which I
kind of get. They were all Italians for the most part,
a lot of Italians were people acting Italian, And I mean,

(00:45):
to me, that's exactly right to me. But that's exactly
the point is Kay. He had to act and look
like a total outsider, which was her role in the
book and the movie. She's an outsider, like from this
lost culture kind of going into this Italian mafioso, lacos

(01:06):
andostra culture. Right, that's why it works, right, She physically
she doesn't look she doesn't look like she fits in