Transparent's Amy Landecker tells casting directors to just fucking Google her already

In the A24 drama, which also stars Adam Driver and Anna Kendrick, Eleazar’s Green is a headstrong onetime Emmy winner whose refusal to knuckle under to the indignities of an ageist and racist Hollywood will no doubt strike a chord with a lot of female actors. It certainly inspired Landecker, herself a Screen Actor’s Guild award winner for her role in Transparent, to vent a little, even if a pair of her male colleagues were quick to defend Misty Green‘s own casting people. 

“We love casting directors!,” Rock blurted, laughing, while the outspoken Landecker put the blame for the grueling tedium of auditioning squarely on producers who refuse to bring prospective actors for in-person meetings. (Grace then shouted, “We love producers!,” with Rock joking, “You see how Topher has lasted in the business so long!”) All the professional ass-covering aside, Landecker went on to praise Rock’s film for accurately depicting “how humiliating they can make you feel on any given day in this business.”

For the 56-year-old Landecker, who has worked with everyone from the Coen Brothers to Nicole Holofcener to Rock along with anchoring Transparent for five seasons, Misty Green‘s fed-up protagonist clearly spoke to her position as a talented actor who’d like it if casting people would just do a little research into her formidable body of work. (The EW article goes on to note that Eleazar herself was only cast in the lead role “after an intense audition process.”)