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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Acting is 95% waiting around. 5% acting.
Between cameras, lights, sound, make up, and about a hundred other things going on behind the set. It takes hours to get everything set up right.
During those hours the actors are just sitting and thinking. Stewing over their lines again and again. So once everything is in place and you can finally release all the emotional tension onto the screen, it becomes difficult to stop.
Stopping means resetting everything, including your own emotional moment. So it’s easier to fumble through a line than to start at the very beginning
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