Ben Gilbert: uncertainty

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…No, I don't have that. I gave that up. I'm a vampire. I don't think folks realize this, but when you and I had a couple of phone calls back when you were shooting this, you were like, can I call you at, I don't know what it was, like 8:00 PM. I'm on my lunch break. What is the daily schedule like and why are you shooting so late into the night? There's a thing called a 12-hour turnaround. Standard days on a movie set or a show set is 12 hours. We could talk about whether or not that is civilized or right. The union of stage workers almost went on strike, and I think with good reason. It's not exactly the best lifestyle. But be that as it may, you work a minimum of 12 hours, and then you need to have a 12-hour turnaround, but 12 hours is really the minimum. Oftentimes, we're working 13 hours, 14 hours, 15 hours. 00 AM and you finished at 8:00 PM, then maybe you could start again at 8:00 AM. But mostly, if you start at 8:00 AM, then you finish at 10:00 PM, then you have to start the next day at 10:00 AM. Over the course of the week, that keeps happening. You start the week at 5:00 AM and by the end of the week, you're coming in at noon or 1:00 PM and you're having "lunch" at 9:00 PM.…

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