8 QUICK WAYS TO MAKE ENEMIES ON SET

Directing the director
This is the BIGGEST no-no on set. You are hired as the talent NOT the director so, telling the director what to do or how you would like the scene shot will guarantee you getting fired and trust me, these directors gossip more than women in a hair salon they will tell everyone about how difficult it is work with you and make sure you stay out of work for the longest time possible so please, limit your directing skills to your local church plays!

Tardiness
Most call times are usually very early. As early as 4 am. That means you wake up at around 3 am. The reason for this is that production wants to use as much natural light as they possibly can. The moment the sun sets, its a wrap! Time is literally money. If you get late to set it means they are losing light which means an extra day of shooting which in a producers world means MILLIONS OF DOLLARS! No one wants to lose money. KEEP TIME! You signed up for it.

Directing your co star
This is for those know-it-all actors who tell their co actors on set what to say/how to say it/ what to feel etc. Dude! You are not my acting coach neither are you the director, stop telling me what to do. Thank God this has never happend to me because it would gurantee a punch in the face.

Mishandling your props
I was once on set where we had a basket of lemons to be used as props. One of the actors started kicking the lemons around as you would a football. One may not realize it but every prop on set is individually selected and presented in a way that looks good on screen. Mishandling your props is very disrespectful to the prop master.

Moving things around on set
It is crucial for actors not to touch or move things around on set. A simple thing as turning a cup facing left to right can cause serious continuity issues. Things are set up the way they are for a reason. Somebody has been paid  a lot of money to make it look exactly the way it is. If you move things around and continuity finds out they won’t sleep until your head is presented to them on a silver platter… okay I exaggerate but they will be very very angry.

Getting your costume dirty
Must admit, I was guilty of this on the set of ‘Eye in the sky’. Costumes are a food magnet. I’d get spills on them every time and because the camera picks up even the tiniest stain (was shooting close up) wardrobe department had to always come fix it. I decide to start covering my costume with a shawl and guess what? not a single spill. Food magnet I tell ya!

Meltdowns
Very little sleep, learning lines, pressure of delivering your best work, no free time to relax and managing your personal life all at once can make even the strongest person crumble. Having said that, you chose this life as an actor, you knew it wasn’t all glitz and glam so please, leave your issues at home and come to set as a professional. You’re being paid (sometimes millions of dollars) to be one. When you have a meltdown on set you create so much tension killing the morale of everybody else. Case in point, when Christian Bale completely freaked out on the set of Terminator Salvation. Listen to it here and tell me if that’s someone you’d wanna work with. He did apologize but it was just another case of too little too late.

On set romance
Well, this is a tricky one. On one hand there is Brangelina who met on set and lived happily ever after on the other there is Game of Thrones Lena Heady (Cersei) and Jerome Flynn (Bronn) who dated then broke up but still have to see each other on set. WORSE, in the same scenes. It must be awkward every-single-time. Personally, I live by one rule DON’T SCREW WITH THE CREW (unless he’s super cute then totally go for it)

Epic Line: Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.                                                                                                             -I forget where I read this-

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