Megan Boone Was Cast In The Blacklist Way Before The Rest Of Her Co-Stars

Even considering James Spader's award-winning talent (via Emmys), he wasn't the earliest performer the showrunners brought on board. "Megan was the first person we casted by I think a long way," John Eisendrath, a "Blacklist" producer, said in an interview with the Daily Actor. "And everybody else just took a long, long time." Boone herself wasn't keen on auditioning for any television pilots, but she did have the foresight to request TV scripts still be sent her way for consideration. "Once I got ahold of 'The Blacklist,' and I read it, I was immediately kind of drawn to the character Elizabeth Keen," Boone said in the same interview alongside Eisendrath.

Boone continued by mentioning how she gave one of the better auditions of her entire career. Eisendrath admitted that it takes a number of elements to make a successful thriller like "The Blacklist" come to life, but he knew the show had something special when both Boone and Spader were cast as the leads.

"I think in both Megan's case and Spader's, you know, there is something about each of them as individuals that molded with the character that was on the page and that is essential to having a successful show." Eisendrath then mentioned the insanity behind the casting process, and the difficulty that inevitably comes with finding the right actors. "We were incredibly lucky," he insisted.