In contrast to BARCELONA, for which Taylor Nichols and Chris Eigeman were cast before there was a script, the intention with THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO was to see what an entirely new ensemble would do with the material. There was also a plan to have actors from METROPOLITAN and BARCELONA appear in the fictional "club" as their earlier characters, to show it attracting - in Josh’s words - "everyone you know and everyone you don't know."

Although the role of the club underboss, Des, was always the "Chris Eigeman part," Stillman says, both "Chris and I were under pressure not to work together. For him there was the problem of typecasting, and I got a lot of the 'we love Chris but isn't it time to work with someone new?' So there was the hunt for the 'new Chris Eigeman.' But after extensive looking we found that by far the best 'new Chris Eigeman' was, in fact, the current Chris Eigeman. It turned out there was not 'another Kate Beckinsale' or Chloë Sevigny, either."