Today Rebecca is joined by Kristen Brancaccio to react to some anonymously submitted production horror stories - the good, the bad, and the downright hilarious.
BREAKDOWN:
0:30 - Updates with Kristen! Full-time directing largely in vertical soap operas
3:55 - Anonymously submitted production horror stories!
4:20 - UPM asked LAPD to ID homeless defecation, cop reverse unos and asks production to read screenplay
6:23 - Cops respond to film shooting but not gun shooting
7:05 - Chandler Berg the PA putting out a Malibu fire with the production fire extinguisher
8:30 - Producers digging into an actual cemetery
10:06 - Director beat up PD on set, Kristen stands up for art department
11:14 - 300 extras were told to actually fight each other, actor gets stabbed
12:28 - Rap video with dog fights, stabbing, and computers stolen out of motor home
13:09 - Kristen is up to direct a music video, artist goes to jail before they can shoot
14:22 - Script supervisor stole the lined script for ransom
14:45 - “The Terminator” goes off on PA for chewing too loudly
15:40 - Department head commits fraud, blames assistant
16:18 - Kristen declines to deposit production budget into department head’s personal account
17:30 - Woman shocked by amount of cash taken out by Hollywood productions
18:17 - Person asked to only be paid in gold bars
18:40 - Camera van without handbrake runs through video village on car commercial
28:55 - Portable toilet driven for 45 minutes on bumpy road with person inadvertently inside
19:50 - Talent rage quit his own pilot
20:40 - mayor allowed filming in exchange for photos with celebrities
21:06 - Extra wardrobe malfunction
21:58 - Background actor backstories
22:58 - Bribing the neighbor with Magic Castle tickets
24:25 - Director freaks out that set design isn’t bougie enough
25:22 - Client decided day of the shoot that pre-approved wooden paneling needed to be VFX’d out
26:52 - Wet garbage falling
30:27 - Unusable footage from holding camera on top of a moving camera
29:50 - Petty cash disappeared x2
31:35 - Who can decode these acronyms? DM us @nosetpathshow
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