Maggie Christmott is a visual effects artist based in Los Angeles. People would drink on the job or they would use substances to be able to finish the work, she says. "It just physically exhausted us ... probably like shaved off like 10 or 20 years of my life"
Bad visual effects in movies may have less to do with technology and more to do with workers being underpaid and overworked. Vulture senior reporter Chris Lee explains in this episode of Into It.
This episode was produced for Into It by Travis Larchuk and Jordana Hochman with help from Today, Explained's Siona Peterous, Laura Bullard, and Patrick Boyd.
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