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54 - Reacting to Production Horror Stories w/ Kristen Brancaccio

Author
Rebecca Doyle
Published
Thu 24 Apr 2025
Episode Link
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rebecca-doyle3/episodes/54---Reacting-to-Production-Horror-Stories-w-Kristen-Brancaccio-e31ufa4

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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IG: @kristensreality

Kristen's first episode on No Set Path: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/02-pitching-matt-damon-producing-for-finneas-w-kristen/id1676370871?i=1000605417778

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