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Written By Jim Hemphill

The casting director behind “JFK,” “Natural Born Killers,” and “The Rock” talks about her powerful new documentary, which follows her husband’s Alzheimer’s battle, and why she’s happy the Academy is finally recognizing what casting directors do.

Casting director Heidi Levitt has spent decades working in close collaboration with many of the most acclaimed directors of their era on some of the best — and most perfectly and audaciously cast — movies of all time. Movies like “JFK,” “Natural Born Killers,” and “Nixon” for Oliver Stone, or Michael Bay’s “The Rock,” and multiple films for Mark Pellington, Wayne Wang, Wim Wenders, and others. She never seriously considered becoming a director herself, however, until her husband Charlie was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease in 2019.

“I always say this is not the movie I wanted to make, this is the movie I had to make,” Levitt told IndieWire in a recent interview about her new documentary “Walk With Me.” A personal portrait of Heidi and Charlie’s quest to better understand and find treatment for his condition as it progresses, “Walk With Me” is both a moving portrait of the evolution of a marriage and a potent piece of advocacy for more open discussions of Alzheimer’s and the role of caregivers in America.

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