During auditions for HMTPAD, actor Shawn Vincent informed Weber that he had just dropped out of high school to pursue his acting career. Weber, having already approved Vincent's audition video submission, admired Vincent's commitment to his craft and found it necessary to cast him.
[on directing HMTPAD (2022)] What I couldn't solve with money, because we had none, I aimed to solve with creativity. Limitations force a director to be creative. With all the crazy creative choices I made when planning this film, some critics suggested I was sabotaging my own movie.
