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Just because you hear that they do, doesn't mean it's always allowed or that it will make it into the film. Sometimes a line just isn't working and an actor or
by assimpleaspossi 2y ago
Just because you hear that they do, doesn't mean it's always allowed or that it will make it into the film.
Sometimes a line just isn't working and an actor or the director or the writer or a grip will come up with something that works and that's what you hear about. Those are exceptions and not the rule.
The director has the final say. Often others higher up have the final say. If he wants you to say the line as written, you will say the line as written.
- coldtea 2y agoI didn't say it's "always allowed". There are difficult directors with very specific vision they want to express 100%. It's that that is the exception and not the rule, however. In general it's more common that some lines will change and be improvised by the actors, than not. It's even practical, some lines come off as stiff when the actors tell them verbatim, others just can't be replicated in a longer emotionally charged scene (where the flow and the emotions carry the performance), and so on. >Often others higher up have the final say. If he wants you to say the line as written, you will say the line as written. DUH!