124 | Elvis Screenwriter Jeremy Doner on Writing Biopics (and Avoiding Common Pitfalls)
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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Laughing at Quote Unquote Bad Behavior on Set
I was witness to some quote unquote bad behavior on set and some very punitive responses to it, you know, by the studio. And what I saw is somebody, an actor who's putting themselves like an incredibly vulnerable spot and delivering the goods. There's a lot of people we love and value as actors who just aren't that way. We sort of all have that again, it's that same thing like art and commerce, right?We're asked to be vulnerable and deliver the creative goods - yet it is a business. It's important to give actors that space because at the end of the day, it's not your face that's going to be 70 feet large on a screen
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