u/Sharaz_Jek123

With the report of a new John Sayles film (starring Chris Cooper and Amy Madigan), I thought it might be interesting to discuss filmmakers who tend to jump back and forth between lead actors.

Sayles is an obvious example.

In his heyday, he tended to cast Cooper as more laconic, authorative characters and David Strathairn for more eccentric, individualistic figures - often at the periphery of society.

Other examples:

Hitchcock typically chose Cary Grant for more romantic characters and James Stewart for more psychologically flawed anti-heroes (which creater conflict for the director when Stewart wanted to star in "North by Northwest").

Haneke tended to cast Juliette Binoche as more ostensibly vulnerable characters and Isabelle Huppert for seemingly resilient, but actually self-destructive figures.

Ingmar Bergman alternater Erland Josephson and Max Von Sydow in many of his projects.

Any others?