This probably made Clooney’s comments, that Noah Jupe was able to work fast, and also good, all the more important.
A director is going to want to be sure that any actor is going to be the right person that they’ll want to work with, but if anything that’s all the more important with child actors.
However, prior to making the decision, he called the actor’s previous director, one George Clooney.
In one of the behind-the-scenes features included in the Blu-ray release of A Quiet Place, John Krasinski discusses how he became interested in casting Noah Jupe as his on-screen son after seeing the boy’s performance in The Night Manager.