The characters surrounding Brenda are SO interesting and fun.
I love them, too! Provenza (G.W. Bailey, or as my young producers refer to him as, "The OLD guy") was in the first movie I ever worked on, "Summer of my German Soldier", back in 1978. It was one of his first films, too. Making us *both* old!
BK, I do get to meet actors when I'm cutting features. I will see them at dailies, parties, looping sessions, etc. I look at them every day and feel like I know them, although often I only know them by their character's name, unless they're a well-known actor. When I finally meet them in person, I feel like they should know me, since I look at them every day. So there's always a weird moment when I have to make the mental leap from their 2D image to seeing them in the flesh.