![]() The filming of Apocalypse Now (1979) was so grueling that its director, Francis Ford Coppola, declared his intention to commit suicide three separate times and suffered a nervous breakdown. Some of the largest fish in the Hollywood pond have mastered the art of “failing up,” but for most others, to have your name attached to a catastrophe of a film can ruin your career and your financial future.įor this reason, movie sets have always been hotbeds of drama and turmoil, and can often take a tremendous toll on everyone involved, all the way down to the production assistants*. In a town that lives by the motto “You’re only as good as your last film,” the reputations of everyone involved are in jeopardy each and every time a movie is made m illions upon millions of studio dollars are on the line. ![]() Making movies can be a stressful and traumatic process. I was pretty overwhelmed by the plethora of tasks it took to actually bring the play to the stage, and by the end of the process I had cast off ten pounds of muscle that had served me so well in Mozambique (more on that some other time), my director and I were barely speaking to each other, and I swore up and down that I never wanted to do anything like it ever again. However, when I was living in Johannesburg I did produce a play that I had written. Even though I live in Los Angeles, I’ve never been an actor, a writer, a director, a writer-director, a grip, a cameraman, or worked in the film industry in any capacity whatsoever.
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