Eleven years ago, Richard Linklater told Zoey Deutch that he had a dream of one day casting her as Jean Seberg. At the time, the actress was only 19, shooting her first film role — a supporting part in Linklater’s laid-back coming-of-age comedy Everybody Wants Some — and nervous enough about just keeping that part.

“I was so sure the entire time we were filming that I was going to be cut out of the film,” says Deutch, now 30. “There were the normal intrusive thoughts of a 19-year-old, like, ‘He hates me,’ and ‘I’m terrible.’ But I also had read the full script and knew that you could easily just lift my character out if the movie was too long. So when he told me he wanted me to play Jean, I thought: ‘OK, maybe I’m not going to be cut out of the movie.’ ”

Eleven years ago, Richard

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