For casting director Beth Sepko, Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood” was a project unlike any other she’d done in the past. Knowing she needed actors for years at a time made the task particularly challenging. “There were times I would get an email saying, ‘We’re going to do this next fall’ or I’d get an email saying, ‘Hey, next month we’re going to shoot a segment,’ ” Sepko told Backstage earlier this month. “And Rick [Linklater] would give me a call and say, ‘I need a teacher, I need a boyfriend, a new neighborhood kid.’ ”
Taking over after the film was initially cast by Anne Walker-McBay, Sepko worked tirelessly to create a troupe of supporting characters. But it wasn’t just Ellar Coltrane, Ethan Hawke, and Patricia Arquette who gathered together year after year to film the 12-years-in-the-making movie. As any actor knows, there’s no part too small, and every actor makes a difference in a film as epic as this one. Here are 10 supporting players whose work year after year made “Boyhood” one of 2014’s best pictures.
And, if you want to see more portraits of “Boyhood’s” cast, check out the book “Boyhood: Twelve Years on Film,” with photos by Matt Lankes.
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