Oh man. I had such a hard time trying to figure out what AGE they should be. There's a strange dearth of 40-something actors (truly). So many of them are in their late 30s. We (my producing partners and I) looked at people closer to 50, but then we decided that it would be neat to have people who could play themselves in their 20-something flashbacks. Our pilot directors (and EPs) Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris were the first to suggest Jesse Eisenberg. I worried he was too young, but then the pandemic came, and suddenly he no longer was! With Claire Danes and Lizzy Caplan and Adam Brody and Josh Radnor — those were simply the only people we wanted for these characters. We didn't have second choices (though we had some scheduling scares and had to come up with some!). I used to think the not having a second choice made me bad at casting, but now I look at them on the screen and wonder if maybe I'm actually very good at casting! - Taffy