Henry Thomas Audition for E.T The Extra Terrestrial

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Spielberg auditioned more than 300 children for the roles.[4] Having worked with Cary Guffey on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, he felt confident in working with a cast composed mostly of child actors, rather than young adults.[5] Robert Fisk suggested Henry Thomas for the role of Elliott Thomas, who auditioned in an Indiana Jones costume, did not perform well in the formal testing, but got the filmmakers' attention in an improvised scene.[5] Thoughts of his dead dog inspired his ...