Netflix spent ‘a fortune’ editing out earphones from Beef season 2 after Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan decided to listen to music while performing their various scenes together.

Way to keep the dairy metaphor tight!

Pretty much every Hollywood movie you've ever watched has most of the dialogue recorded in post. It's called ADR, and it's just done a lot better usually.

He had the actors speak in their native language. To make it all sound similar they would dub it afterwards.

Couldn’t get the earbuds off those fuckers from the 1800s, though.

*Sophocles has entered the chat* “A hundred years?”

Acting is an evolving art. Actors been doing weird expensive shit for forever.

It’s still a giant and expensive pain to deal with, I know post on this season took a long time and this explains a bit of that.

I think the issue was that it cost a fortune

The issue is it cost "a fortune"

Where do you think Netflix recoups this wasted time/money?

Daniel Craig found some gloves at a shop that he liked and he asked the director if he could wear them and the director thought "sure why not?". They shot a big action scene with him wearing the gloves. Lots of shooting, James bond stuff, etc. It was only when they were editing the movie did they realise that the gimmick with his gun was that it was fingerprint activated so only Bond could use it. If it's fingerprint activated, how does he use the gun? As it was a big action sequence they couldn't reshoot it and other elements of the plot relied on the fingerprint thing, so they had no choice but the CGI them. I just find it crazy how an off-the-cuff choice on the day and a plot detail that the actor and director both missed led to tons of extra work.

“Sir Ian, Sir Ian, Sir Ian, action, wizard "You shall not pass!", cut. Sir Ian, Sir Ian, Sir Ian.”

You just have to listen to them at 3x speed.

Lots of actors & actress have used music to get them in the right mood for a scene. But they are professional enough not to do it during the scene. To me that is poor acting skills if they can't stay present in the scene.

The actors can try anything and everything in pursuit of their craft. It's up to the director and producers to run the cost/benefit and then, you know, direct the actors to take off the damn headphones.

Yeah but even in the opening heist sequence you can see the actors closing their doors in time to the music as a more subtle way to indicate their synchronicity

Scenes where people are basically whispering in a night club is one of my biggest TV pet peeves

The article isn't even that inflammatory, it's just the reactions in here that are a bit unhinged

Yea honestly it sounds like it was a really fun acting experience for them and integrating musicality in non-musical theatre can be an absolute blast for the actors. Clever promotion too because it makes you curious to see whether it elevates the performances or not

She was very professional on set. Did her job and did it well. Was never late (she was 1 on the call sheet and the top 4 are always late all the time). But she also understood her rights and responsibilities. Stood her ground on some of the forces, nothing like diva or anything. Just she worked under a union (SAG) and had rights based on that. The difference is, she saw the crew as human. She didn't mind being inconvenienced to help the team. Some actors think the crew work for them, she believed she worked WITH us. She was pretty serious most of the time so I wouldn't say we all were FRIENDS with her, but she respected the PAs and much as the producers. I was in the trailers at the time. In the morning it can be tough getting everyone through HMC cause they'll be a brat about the makeup, or be late, or take forever eating, but she was always watching the clock for when we had to travel. Omg I would give 10 minute travel warnings and I didn't even need to go back in when the vans got there. She was always ready to go. Part of your job as a trailer AD (4th AD in the US I think?) is to worry. If you don't worry, things don't get done, actors don't get to set on time. I NEVER had to worry about her. Wherever you are Britt, I hope you're doing good.

Jane Krasink’s performance of Jenna Maroney is what make this character a legend. There is some magical air of unhinged genuine that makes the character endearing and not annoying as f***.

This sounds hilarious. Can you share some examples?!

Thank you. I work in production and I now just hate actors with a passion. Theres a few that are great but so many just take advantage of the huge power they have. On the topic of PR social media videos and stuff, i watched an actor scream and be angry while walking down a corridor like "why the f*** do i have to do this?" And then open the door and be the nicest person ever because there were cameras. Its all an act and i hate it.

Who are the worst?

get out of here lol

They also both put in fantastic performances, so you can’t deny the results of the process

Some of us prefer Cbat