Emmy-nominated casting director Mark Saks has left his fingerprint on many of the successful CBS shows (and some that were gone too soon) of the last two decades. His casting journey is unique to the industry; he’s lived and worked on both coasts, and he’s spent time in the independent casting world as well as holding executive casting positions at Warner Bros. Television, Sony, and CBS. He’s put Emmy winners and nominees in their trophy-tempting roles and staffed out the strong, female-forward casts of shows like “The Good Wife” (and spinoff “The Good Fight”), “Elementary,” “Medium,” and currently, “Madam Secretary.” The political drama, which recently finished out its fourth season and is heading for a fifth, features characters, and therefore actors, from all across the globe, which makes the series one of the most challenging casting assignments in Saks’ long career.
What makes “Madam Secretary” unique to other series you’ve done, especially ones that require a lot of single-episode characters? I didn’t anticipate the foreign element of the show. Of course, I knew she was the Secretary of State, but I
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