Adam Lisagor of Lonely Sandwich on his favorite bit of Kubrick casting:

Leon Vitali as Lord Bullingdon

Maybe my favorite piece of casting in any Kubrick film is Leon Vitali as the teenaged Lord Bullingdon, angst-ridden stepson of Barry Lyndon. The 27-year-old somehow managed to bring all that awkward lips-slightly-too-big-for-his-face patricidal tendency to the character that stands out even in this already impeccably-cast film.

And from the part sprung a lifelong relationship with Kubrick, as Vitali went on to serve as Kubrick’s personal assistant on “The Shining”, assistant and casting director on “Full Metal Jacket”, and assistant and cameo on “Eyes Wide Shut”. Now he supervises the restoration of all elements of Kubrick’s films.