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…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. Everything Joe said is exactly right. The other thing that sometimes happens is if you're shooting a night scene, you might stage your week so that on Friday, we're shooting night or on Thursday, and then you're going to intentionally do that. We just like our lingo, like we like to call it lunch. Nobody calls it dinner. I remember learning out of the beginning. It's just lunch no matter what time of day it is.…

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