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Q: I'm enjoying Amazon's new series "Hanna," but I loved the original movie more. I thought every role in that was perfectly cast. Who was responsible for that? Are they as good as I think they are?

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Adam Thomlison / TV Media

This is a delight to answer, partly because no one ever asks about casting agents, but also because you're onto something here: The 2011 spy-action film "Hanna," which spawned this year's Amazon series remake, was cast by Jina Jay, a highly in-demand casting director who has earned numerous industry awards for her work.

Much of that recognition came for other projects you might be interested in. She received an Emmy nod for her work on the AMC spy miniseries "The Night Manager," and won the best-casting award from the Online Film and Television Association for her work on another spy drama, the 2011 film adaptation "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy." Both were based on John le CarrĂ© novels. 

AMC liked her work enough that they gave her the call again two years later to work on their next Le Carré adaptation, "The Little Drummer Girl."

Jay won a pair of awards for her work on the critically beloved "The Grand Budapest Hotel" (2014), which is not a spy picture, but it does share with "Hanna" a sort of pan-European feel and a delightful mix of different accents among Jay's carefully selected cast.

 

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