Reacting to Production Horror Stories w/ Kristen Brancaccio

Show notes

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

1. 0:30Updates with Kristen! Full-time directing largely in vertical soap operas
2. 3:55Anonymously submitted production horror stories!
3. 4:20UPM asked LAPD to ID homeless defecation, cop reverse unos and asks production to read screenplay
4. 6:23Cops respond to film shooting but not gun shooting
5. 7:05Chandler Berg the PA putting out a Malibu fire with the production fire extinguisher
6. 8:30Producers digging into an actual cemetery
7. 10:06Director beat up PD on set, Kristen stands up for art department
8. 11:14300 extras were told to actually fight each other, actor gets stabbed
9. 12:28Rap video with dog fights, stabbing, and computers stolen out of motor home
10. 13:09Kristen is up to direct a music video, artist goes to jail before they can shoot
11. 14:22Script supervisor stole the lined script for ransom
12. 14:45“The Terminator” goes off on PA for chewing too loudly
13. 15:40Department head commits fraud, blames assistant
14. 16:18Kristen declines to deposit production budget into department head’s personal account
15. 17:30Woman shocked by amount of cash taken out by Hollywood productions
16. 18:17Person asked to only be paid in gold bars
17. 18:40Camera van without handbrake runs through video village on car commercial
18. 28:55Portable toilet driven for 45 minutes on bumpy road with person inadvertently inside
19. 19:50Talent rage quit his own pilot
20. 20:40mayor allowed filming in exchange for photos with celebrities
21. 21:06Extra wardrobe malfunction
22. 21:58Background actor backstories
23. 22:58Bribing the neighbor with Magic Castle tickets
24. 24:25Director freaks out that set design isn’t bougie enough
25. 25:22Client decided day of the shoot that pre-approved wooden paneling needed to be VFX’d out
26. 26:52Wet garbage falling
27. 30:27Unusable footage from holding camera on top of a moving camera
28. 29:50Petty cash disappeared x2
29. 31:35Who can decode these acronyms? DM us @nosetpathshow

Keep Up With Kristen

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