The casting of the minor and supporting characters within the movie was equally vital. Remarked director Craig Lahiff: "We always knew we wanted to cast the best people possible, even for the smaller roles. When we were in Sydney working on the script with [writer] Louis [Nowra], we saw one of his plays, 'The Jungle'. Kate Fitzpatrick was in that and we thought she would be marvelous as Gloria the barmaid." Tony Phelan who plays Bishop was also in 'The Jungle'. "We were impressed with his ability and felt it would be great to have somebody fresh. Tony doesn't have that experience of over familiar movie detectives, so he could create the kind of policeman we wanted, a guy with enough idiosyncrasies and irregularities to make the part interesting. Colin Hay did such a wonderful job in 'Cosi' (1996) that we had no trouble visualizing him as Jonah. Initially Jonah was scripted as a straight mean drunk, but we reworked the character, added the piano accordion and generally lightened him."

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