Movie Star's Hardest Day

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"My hardest day as a movie actor, is working, I remember on a show that we had. The next day they had to go to a set that was being built, so that set was not built yet. It was not finished, so in order to justify the time that was being done on that set, and the construction crew, we shot a eighteen hour day, which is always fun. I mean, it was incredible overtime, but to do the same scenes over and over again, to make it look like it was a productive day, so that when the studio gets the notes of production for that day, what was accomplished and what was shot. They don't want to see that time was wasted, because that makes the suits come in, and also makes people get fired, such as directors and producers, and as line producers, so we stayed on the set and worked, and somehow, they doctored the paperwork to make it look like, there were elements beyond their control. Actors forgot lines, and different things, and we had all kinds of weather issues, so the set could get made. I don't know why it wasn't made, but it wasn't, so we sat on a set for eighteen hours, and I didn't know until twelve or thirteen hours. I thought gosh, we must really be doing a horrible job, because we can't seem to make anybody happy, even though nobody's forgetting their lines, and nobody's going knocking over furniture and things like that, but we were actually working, to allow time to be committed to something else the next day to be shot, so it was very frustrating for a long time, and man, you know if you're doing a job, and you think you finished that job, when people are going you're not done. We'd like another one. Could you make another one for us? If you're building cars all day, and people are saying, well, we're just going to let you try one more, ok? I think you need to build one more car for us. You're going, what's wrong with the last twenty five I built? I don't understand, is there a problem? No, there's no problem, we'd just like you to build another car, so it's frustrating for actors, because it's just us in front of a camera, to keep going over and over and over, and doing this, so it's an exhausting day, but eventually the beans got spilled, that it wasn't us. It was the fact that the production didn't really have their act together, and they had to finish building that set that we were supposed to go on, and shoot on the next day. I don't know whether the construction crew got in trouble, or what happened. I have no idea, but it was very, very repetitive and a very long day."