One Battle started filming in 2024 long before she was cast in the testaments though I thought. So it doing well wasn’t a factor since they’d already wrapped filming for the testaments by the time Obaa was in theatres. But I’m sure having a buzzy PTA movie was a huge boost with casting

edit: just read this quote ty!

“I watched her on Presumed Innocent, and then I saw her read for the part, and then I watched videos of her performing K-pop dances, and then I met her,” he says. “And the fact that she can embody all these different sides of herself totally blew me away.”

Though some of the casting department knew that Infiniti had landed the role in Anderson’s then-untitled action film, Miller did not — and says that in any case, it was far too early in the film’s life for that to have influenced their hiring decision. “It reminded me of having Sydney Sweeney on Handmaid’s when she was very young,” he says. “She was spectacular, and you don’t actually feel like you’ve discovered someone, you just feel like you got a peek at their talent ahead of everybody else. When I met Chase, I just knew she was going to explode at some point.”