Who that girl should be, of course, was an important question.
For his part, executive producer Ed Zwick was ready to cast Silverstone as soon as she auditioned.
“It’s done.
Just cast her,” he reportedly said (viaThe New Yorker).
But fellow producer Marshall Herskovitz was not so sure.
“Alicia is so beautiful that would have affected her experience of the world.
People would have been telling her she was beautiful since she was six years old.
So, they agreed to see Danes.
Show creator Winnie Holzman had a solution.
