So, there was this LONG blog post from the director about the making of 'City Island' which was not worth posting as a link, but the part about how they got Julianna to sign on was interesting.
If your interested in the entire thing, the link is:
linkOtherwise, below is the part about Julianna. Background: Actors has signed on to the project, but by the time they got the funding to begin shooting, many of them dropped out. It is now like 2 weeks before they are supposed to start and they haven't found an actress to play Joyce (Andy Garcia's wife).
[Disclaimer - everything below this has been...
