Okay I know this is about acting and people are getting more traction about it (sexuality safety coordinators are a job! yell about them. demand your shows get them) but
Any person who has worked on a set for more than a few years has at least one person they know who died.Ā Ā
Not usually on set, but afterwards.Ā Because we donāt have anyone shutting down production for unsafe practices whenĀ āunsafeā means 16 hour days.Ā Or more.Ā For weeks.Ā Finishing a day before hour 12 (not including lunch) is considered an early leave.
I had teachers tell us not to, unless we absolutely had to, take music video gigs because theyāll work you for 24 hours and send you to drive home.Ā And if we had to work that, pull over and nap in our car because multiple people per year fall asleep at the wheel and go over the canyons around LA.
I know you mean acting but please.Ā Donāt forget the crew.Ā We have a shockingly high rate of suicide because these working schedules leave us with no sleep, no time outside of work, and it destroys lives, relationships, and families.Ā Burnout is high.Ā Chronic illness and broken bodies are common.Ā Cocaine use in order to get through a 20 hour day is rampant.Ā Every single one of your reality shows is fueled by cocaine.
The number of days that are scheduled to shoot a feature has shrunk dramatically in the past two decades.Ā Which means longer days.
Netflix shows are notorious for being poorly organized, understaffed, and long days.
There are labor laws but what they do is levy fines.Ā Those fines are either factored into budget, people are bullied into not reporting actual hours, or crew members see them as incentiveĀ to take those jobs because more money and cost of living is high.Ā (Also this industry has a crew culture of dick measuring by sticking your wang in a blender and boasting about how many 100 hour weeks you pulled.)
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