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Having admired his performance in ''[[Hard Candy (film)|Hard Candy]]'', Reitman cast Page in the lead role, saying that when he read the screenplay for the first time he pictured Page as Juno. Reitman visited Page on the set of a film on which he was working to offer him the role.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.columbusalive.com/live/contentbe/EPIC_shim.php?story=alive/2007/1220/f-reitman.html |title=To know Juno |access-date=April 16, 2008 |author=Starker, Melissa |date=December 20, 2007 |publisher=Columbus Alive |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813195746/http://www.columbusalive.com/live/contentbe/EPIC_shim.php?story=alive%2F2007%2F1220%2Ff-reitman.html |archive-date=August 13, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}</ref> He also handed the script to J.K. Simmons, who had featured in his previous film, ''[[Thank You for Smoking (film)|Thank You for Smoking]]'', not telling him that he intended Simmons to play Mac. Simmons says that, after reading the script, he would have been happy to play even the high school teacher who has no speaking lines.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.flipsidearchive.com/junointerviews3.html |title=The Juno Interviews Part III: Allison Janney & J.K Simmons |access-date=April 27, 2014 |author1=Vaux, Rob |author2=Davis, Debbie |date=January 27, 2008 |publisher=Flipside Movie Emporium}}</ref> Other cast members Reitman had "in mind right from the start" were Olivia Thirlby—who had originally unsuccessfully auditioned for the role of Juno—and Michael Cera.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20192175_20192181_20206272,00.html |title=Olivia Thirlby: Life After 'Juno' |access-date=June 19, 2008 |author=Stack, Tim |date=June 13, 2008 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |archive-date=September 21, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080921082544/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20192175_20192181_20206272,00.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> He took them with Page and Simmons to a [[Panavision]] stage in California and shot 45 pages of the script on [[35mm movie film|35mm film]] against a black backdrop. He presented this footage to Fox Searchlight as the initial cast.<ref name=filmmaker>{{cite magazine |url=http://filmmakermagazine.com/news/2008/01/my-super-sweet-16-by-lisa-y-garibay/ |title=My Super Sweet 16 |access-date=April 16, 2008 |author=Garibay, Lisa Y. |date=January 28, 2008 |magazine=Filmmaker Magazine}}</ref> Reitman highlighted the importance of doing a screen test instead of individual auditions, saying: "This is a movie that's all about relationships and the idea of auditioning people outside of each other, one-on-one with the casting director, didn't make sense."<ref name="filmmaker"/>
[[Jennifer Garner]], who accepted a lower salary than usual to prevent the film from exceeding its budget,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/
Michael Cera stated that the film had "a lot of Canadian influence" due to the fact that he and Page were Canadian and that a lot of the other actors originated from [[Vancouver]].<ref name=Ceraint/> Cera's comment was a response to a statement from Peter Howell of the ''[[Toronto Star]]'': "I thought Juno was a very Canadian movie, even though it was set in the U.S."<ref name=Ceraint/>
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