Installment#2
Casting as Life and Art
New York New York is the star of the film
 
The Anita Pallenberg Story features professionals in the fine art community - artists, critics, curator our location is Manhattan and most of our cast members are New Yorkers - all of us, however, having been born and raised elsewhere.
I would even suggest that our own narcissism as New Yorkers - for we are very egoistic, as emotionally attached to our city as the French are to their language - explains why it was so easy to assemble the cast. We take it for granted that we are special, and that the rest of the world, wherever that is, is curious to see and know us. Living in New York we are, in a sense, already living in a movie, breathing in a myth, sustaining ourselves on fantasies, manipulating the plot, believing against all realities in happy endings.

The casting on Anita Pallenberg is an integral aspect of both the process and the form of the movie. The cast predates the script: we couldn't write anything until we knew who was playing whom. There's a sense in which the cast was 'curated' more than 'cast': we chose artists based on their artwork - but we wanted them, not their art products.

Cottingham How I came to be Mick Jagger
von Bonin Cosima von Bonin as Anita Pallenberg
Eisenman Nicole Eisenman as Keith Richards
Brown Gavin Brown as Andrew Loog Oldham
Nanney Chuck Nanney as Kenneth Anger
Parrino Steven Parrino as Hell's Angel
Ganahl Rainer Ganahl as the Vogue Photographer
Amer Ghada Amer as a Rolling Stone Reporter
Theobald Stephanie Theobald as Julie Burchill
Cobett Aaron Cobett as Aaron, the Band's Make-Up Artist
Michael Lucas Michael as François de Menil
de Land Colin de Land as Robert Fraser
Dalrymple Clarissa Dalrymple as Tony Sanchez, the Band's Drugdealer
Beckwith Patterson Beckwith as David Bowie
Norton Peter Norton as the Pizza Delivery Boy
Yau John Yau as John Yau
Force Yvonne Force as a groupie
Jones? Where's Brian Jones ?