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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Cutting filming and restarting it takes a lot more effort than you think. There’s tons of people on set all doing different jobs, and they aren’t the subject of whatever comedic thing is going on, so they don’t think it’s as funny and also they get to smile or even laugh quietly while the actor must maintain composure as they are on camera. So when an actor says to keep rolling they are telling everyone they will get it together and not to stop everything while they giggle and get it out of their system.
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