Wicked Local
Before film director Darius Marder left the 2018 meeting, he offered some parting instructions for Lisa Lobel, the casting director he had just hired for his film, Sound of Metal.
“As he was walking out, he said, I just want to let you know that most of the people you are going to be casting for are deaf, ” Lobel recalled in a phone interview Thursday.
“No problem,” she responded. After the director left the room, however, Lobel privately wondered how she would do it.
A resident of Needham and native of Newton, Lobel is the co-owner of Boston Casting, a leading New England casting company offering clients a database of more than 85,000 actors for roles in productions ranging from web videos to feature films with titles including Chappaquiddick, Legally Blond, The Fighter and American Hustle.