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A Casting Conundrum – The New Yorker Festival

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October 30, 2014

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Lynda La Plante, the author and creator of “Prime Suspect,” tells the New Yorker staff writer Jeffrey Toobin about a bizarre script she worked on early in her career. They had a problem: they were forced to cast an orangutan in the role of a chimpanzee.

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A Casting Conundrum – The New Yorker Festival

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