I think he's hinting that the announcement for the role will be made the first week of August, and is using the "heavy" four month schedule "demands" required to up-sell the commitment of the actress he is planning to cast. That only makes her look good and gives the project prestige ("this project is so important she's taking four months away from film and TV to do it...")
It's all a bit of a show biz rouge -- he needs someone who can do some occasional PR over the last months of summer and who is free for a month to rehearse and do the broadcast. If, say, Jennifer Lawrence wanted to do it and had only a month to commit to the project, they'd make it work.
Perhaps they weren't considering this when they picked an early December time slot, but that can be a problematic time both for actors on television series and those doing press junkets for late December (i.e. Oscar bait) film releases.
Updated On: 7/13/14 at 01:44 PM
