i don't think he'll drop the nickname. even if he tries, the public won't let him. he's one of the few actual celebrities left. he gets millions of dollars to barely act in movies because your parents recognize his name. how exactly is a guy named "dwayne" gonna do that?
He's been known for being hours late for a couple years now. A major diva, overall shitty person to work with.
“On set, away from his trailer, if he needs to pee, he doesn’t go to the public bathroom,” one insider who knows the movie star well said. “He pees in a Voss water bottle and his team or a PA has to dispose of it.”
Big rumblings happening in Hollywood piss markets.
Wow Mr. Big Shot Hollywood has to piss in a $250 water bottle while the rest of us working stiffs have to piss in gallon jugs.
His acting career started with a no dialog cameo on voyager
now he doesn't even show up and they're still paying for him
Stone Cold Rock Bottom's Jeri Ryan's stunt double was not something I ever expected to see when I first started watching trek.
no dialog
That's not true he said, "I'm afraid I can't say the same"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYUyTcoe0qw
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not reading this article but this means it was likely everyone on set probably got OT while waiting around for him
I have always thought that productions can't support "divas". I have no real experience with movie making, but I would imagine there is a ton of "waiting for X so Y can do Z". Not in a rude way, but I would imagine lots of people are expecting other people to be on point so they can do their job. In a certain sense I think that's kind of rad because it implies everyone is sort of working toward the common goal of making some movie magic. Being a "diva" may work in wrestling or certain types of live performances, but something like film production is far more structure and doesn't really want spontaneous change or dynamic alterations to the schedule.
On a purely personal level how can you be a "manly man™©®" be so fragrantly disrespectful of other people's time and talents. So many of these macho masculine self-help/guru types talk about being respectful and being a man and shit, and these is just actively un-manly. It's boyish. A boy would have this sort of mindset and behavior, not a man. It lacks honor, it diligence, it lacks consistency, it lacks all of the virtues people like Johnson espouse in their videos and "brand". You can't call yourself a man and be so self-centered.
While what I'm gonna say is too friendly to capital, it would feel more right for big stars to have to pay everyone else's wages for wasting everyone's time being a diva.
Maybe more reasonably, productions should be less penny pinching in the first place and maybe The Rock Does Christmas doesn't need to exist.
it would feel more right for big stars to have to pay everyone else's wages for wasting everyone's time being a diva.
I dig the sentiment for sure. Like you said it's friendly to capital, but the larger idea of "the diva is burning away everyone's time, the rest of cast and crew ought to be compensated and the diva ought to have their behavior corrected" makes sense to me.
Maybe more reasonably, productions should be less penny pinching in the first place and maybe The Rock Does Christmas doesn't need to exist.
In wholehearted agreement there.
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He worked 5-6 hours days, which if he was 7-8 hours late for, then that means the expectation was that work days are 13 hours days. So critical support, I also would have said fuck that you'll get my 5-6.
uh don't you think the star of a movie showing up 8 hours late is a big part of why their work days are 13 hours long?
Not at all, they would be 13 hour days even if he showed up on time, that’s pretty much just the standard on filming days. Work/Life balance for anyone around movie production is ridiculous.
That's all kinds of normal for a film set. As far as being an actor a lot of that time is spent just kinda being available when they get around to needing you as well. He would probably be spending a decent amount of that time vibing in his trailer doing whatever he wants while they set up shots and whatever. If there's any exterior shooting you need to do things at the right time cause the sun moves and that fucks up your lighting and continuity. It's also just a massive massive pain in the ass for the people working for a pay check on set cause the time wasted on a rich actor being late could mean the production going over schedule and them missing out on the next gig they had lined up. Making movies is fucking miserable and it's amazing that anyone does it even for lots of money
you need to do things at the right time cause the sun moves and that fucks up your lighting and continuity
Lmao you just reminded of a shoot I was on where it suddenly started snowing
When it finally stopped the police started some action in the building next to ours, fucking up all the sound
We had the place for two days and that was those days
Hold for plane
Making films is miserable in the way it's set up today but seeing the final product of something you nearly died making is extremely satisfying lol
And then I, an armchair know-nothing reviewer, get to call it derivative!
Yes, exactly. And if even one actor is pushing back, even in his own selfish way, critical support to any resistance at all.
That's not how that works. Read my second to last sentence. There are jobs that simply by their nature require long hours, if anything studios would rather the high paus union people on set be working less hours but a reality of film work is you bust your balls for a couple months and then have a month off and even then the on set time is often just being there, like a firefighter being in the station for two weeks and then two weeks off. They're on duty, they're on the job and have some stuff to do but they're around to put out fires
I mean, he took the job knowing the hours. There's a lot of industries I don't work in because the hours are wack. It's not like he's some poor soul with no options forced into a malicious contract
You're right, and he's an (unfortunately) in demand actor with enough leverage to get a way with this. I absolutely would prefer that he use that leverage to gain better working conditions for the whole set, but extremely critically, I support at least one asshole pushing back against the insane working conditions Hollywood has. Tangentially, this is the same critical support I'd give Chappell Roan for not endorsing Kamala Harris.
Some work just requires longer hours. I've worked on a couple of movies and it's not due to some evil maliciousness that the hours are what they are, it's just a result of what you're trying to do.
While I think it's good to push back against Hollywood, that's not what Dwayne is doing by agreeing to a contract with certain hours and then showing up late. If he wanted to push back, then he wouldn't agree to that kind of contract or he would demand certain concessions, not just for him, but for everyone. In the article they also mention trying to work around him requiring 3 hours of workout every day, so they have shown that they would be willing to do that kind of stuff.
Not sure how it is in LA but backin the day a nyc union grip would have a pretty aggressive shift differential multiplier if they kept you on set more than 12 hours. It was like after 12AM you got 2.5x rate and it increased .5x every hour up to 5x. Commercial shoots were always poorly time budgeted and I could work 3 days a week most weeks. I hated that job. My tools were stolen constantly and it was hard to sleep like a normal person.
I'm east coast, and I've only done small time shit that's gone over 12 hours a small handful of times, so I can't give the specifics, but there's definitely a significant increase on union wages past 12 hours, and god help you if you have to push meals
You can see some pretty absurd shit at 4am on a craft services table. I once saw 10000+ Big Mac Boxes stacked in a pyramid lol. The entertainment and events industry is for space aliens and lizard people.
Can you smell what the Rock is cooking? Piss. It's piss. Maybe seasoned with some asparagus???
Sorry I forgot to hit you with the archive mirro. Thank you @Cyanocobalamin@lemmy.dbzer0.com for doing it for me
Archive.ph to the rescue, as always: https://archive.ph/qbYT9
you don't. just make assumptions about it because The Rock isn't a real person anyway.
