“I was like, ‘I can’t drive myself to set in Atlanta.’ This is insurance liability, it’s dangerous,” she said. “What do I look like, taking myself to work by myself in a rental car? So I was like, ‘Can I get a driver or security to take me?’ I’m not asking for the moon.”
She continued, “They’re like, ‘Well, if we do it for you, we got to do it for everybody.’ Well, do it for everybody! It’s stuff like that, stuff I shouldn’t have to fight for. I was on the set of Empire fighting for trailers that wasn’t infested with bugs.”
by bbbebee
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I just think of when KJ Apa had a car accident from driving home after a 14 hour shoot. I know many people have to drive home after long hours at their job, but it is an unnecessary liability in my book.
Am I missing something? What’s wrong with driving yourself?
I hope she isn’t M’onique-ing herself
Regardless of your opinion on if actors deserve to be driven (they often have early morning calls for hair and make up and work 12-16hrs days regularly, with on location sets sometimes being quite far from their accommodations), this is just industry standard.
I largely work in tv movies right now, and the lead actors on Hallmark shows are given transport. It’s baffling to me that a film with a HUNDRED MILLION dollar budget isn’t providing transport for their stars, and I largely suspect that there are power dynamics is at play here. Trust me that Margot Robbie and Florence Pugh aren’t self driving to set.
Oprah penny pinching? (isn’t she producing this?)