Why do actors not want production to yell cut when they are laughing/fumbling their lines?

Question

When I watch blooper reels of TV shows, if an actor keeps dropping a prop or messing up a line, and is laughing, they all say something to the effect: “Don’t cut!! Keep rolling!! Don’t cut!! I’ll get it right.” Why do they care so much about this? I can only assume it adds a lot more time to their day if they keep having to “cut” and restart…. But why?

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Answer 1

Actor here. Redoing a line after a flub would be 30 seconds max. Cutting and reloading cameras could be upwards of 5 minutes. There’s no point abandoning a potential run of good momentum over a small slip up. It’ll all come together in the edit after all.