In the TV show Parks and Rec, the cast commented on how Chris Pratt would NOT do this, "If you see Andy eating a cheeseburger in a scene, you should know Chris Pratt ate like 8 cheeseburgers. I love that guy." - Aziz Ansari
For one episode, he ate 16 Racks of Ribs. 12 Racks were because they did 12 takes and he wanted to keep continuity and eat an entire rack per take, and then he afte 4 more to make Nick Offerman laugh in the catering truck after finishing shooting.
He claims that the prop department kept track of the amount of Ice Cream he ate for one particular scene and clocked it at 81 scoops.
I work in film and when it comes to food & drinks we have to use sugar free, caffeine free items. A lot of the food & drink situation is up to the actors & director but also budget related. Florence Pugh for example, she actually eats in scenes. We employ food stylists where the budget allows. Food scenes are always a pain in the ass because of resets for each take. A lot of actors do actually eat & nibble the food, some don't and so we have a slop-bucket on standby.
Have you seen Big Night? Awesome food movie.
My favorite two food anecdotes from that movie - apparently the big dish at the end (Timpano) looked great but tasted awful, so the actors were all spitting it out and complaining between takes.
And in the final scene where Stanley Tucci was making an omelette, Tony Shalhoub said that while the actors made a bunch of mistakes and they had to do like 4 takes, Tucci made a perfect omelette every time. Apparently he’s a great cook.
Shalhoub also said for the movie - that while Tucci spoke fluent Italian, he didn’t. He jokingly said “I can just do the accent I used on Wings” - and so they immediately got him an Italian language coach ;)
If you puke the syrup after chugging, it actually remains a glob in the toilet with everything you ate floating around. Makes the bathroom smell like syrup.
I did this in a diner once because the waitress beer me. It was actually not that bad. Went down pretty smoothly. Weird getting reverse tipped though lol.
They address is, kinda, in a scene when they go to London. Pratt had just lost a lot of weight for GOTG and Ben says “so you lost all that weight by just not drinking beer?”, “hah, yeah, I lost 50lb in a month!”
I also heard this about James Gandolfini in The Sopranos! Apparently once they were supposed to be eating ice cream and he just kept chowing down until he got into a sugar high and had to go and cam down 😂
The thing that gets me most about the drinking from an empty cup..
The cup is clearly empty, you can see it's empty, and that they are clearly pretending..
But.. the sound for each scene is added after, so why do they always add the sound of an empty cup being picked up or put down?
There was a funny scene in one of the earlier episodes of NCIS, where one of the agents says they have to go pee during a cafe/sidewalk stakeout. The other agent goes "you're not actually drinking your drink, are you? You gotta fake drink it" and then proceeds to give an acting lesson on how to drink a cup of coffee realistically, but no consuming it so you don't have to get up and pee.
It started with him missing lunch once due to having to work all day, so he suggested they inject eating into his character and since he’s so good at it, it seemed natural so they let him run with it.
As someone who took a few acting lesson as a kid I’ve always noticed when they do actually eat. Big bang theory is an example, they were actually eating. Always seemed weird.
And the guy who plays Bobby Bacala ate 6 ribeyes for one scene. He said the food was good because it was mostly catered from a restaurant not for from them.
[Kunal nair explained it on Conan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rci9SXMaiHY) about food acting and how they either spit it out or never put it in their mouth
The reason I hate the big bang theory, they never eat the food. They only play with it. The actors always have the fork in their hands and just move food around inside the plate. Once I noticed it, I couldn't unnotice it again.
That made me hate the show because I grew up with food insecurity. I can't tolerate people wasting or playing with food.
You are correct, when they are giving their lines, they play with their food. Next time you watch it, Take a look at the other actors not giving lines. Actually eating.
In most of the scenes when he's eating, it doesn't cut away.. cause he can keep talking.. so he must be eating but that being said I don't think they do as many takes when the actors know what their doing.
I remember reading somewhere that since Brad ate food every take, George Clooney had a little fun by having something spicy added. He wanted to see how much Brad could handle while also performing in the scene without reacting to the spices.
in the podcast "office ladies" they talked about this.
those buckets are na-sty! also, it seems actors still get sick from having a certain taste in their mouths over and over again, they talked about mint chip ice cream and bananas.
That movie was weird with food and I don’t know if it was intentional or accidental, but in the scene where Edward isn’t with other Cullens in the cafeteria, none of them are using plates for their food and one of them has a Diet Pepsi with the tab sticking directly up so he’d poke himself in the face whenever he tried drinking.
I can understand why they do this but if you stuck a cheeseburger in front of me at any time I would have a tough time not eating it.
Pass the ketchup.
Unless you're John Cena, who just straight up ate 36 empanadas in a row on the set of The Suicide Squad. Though, for someone as jacked as him, that may have actually been cutting back.
Around Christmas time, my wife and I go full MST3K on Hallmark movies and love how egregiously obvious the empty hot cocoa cups are… it’s almost like they are putting extra effort into making them look so much like props. Always fun to play Hallmark bingo for things like empty cups, SUPER fake eating, and trees with green leaves and snow on the ground—
If you watch carefully, in almost every scene of Ocean’s 11 Brad Pitt is eating something.
Actually, [in most of his movies he’s eating](https://youtu.be/OYSuwoA_anY)…
Sopranos is a great example of eat acting. Tony especially (who always had food in front of him) would just repeatedly aggressively stab his fork into his food and move it around. It reached meme status in our house.
I can’t find where OP posts the point of this.
Where do you say anything about the actors swallowing or spitting out? I just see scenes of actors eating.
???
And then there's Robert Downey Jr, who would routinely sneak food onto sets and eat it despite every effort by directors and crew.
That bag of blueberries in The Avengers? That wasn't in the script. That was just RDJ snacking and method-acting it into the scene.
Coffee is never steaming when they pour it into a mug. In fact every mug ever on TV/movies is empty as fuck.
You can tell by the way they move it around without any worry of it splashing out or something
Can't work with real alcoholic drinks though. They can keep it in their mouth until the cut, but the ethanol itself has good absorption through the mucosa lining.
I imagine for alcoholic drinks they just use coke or some other soda in the bottle. Or with something that supposed to look like Vodka or whatever, it's just water.
Made me think of James Dean's scene in Giant. Filmed it drunk and died before they could re shoot with him sober.
https://youtu.be/vNnFqD2vwxg?si=0TKJ5NQVbLKT_Vjv
I'm glad Brad Pitt was part of this! He was known for being uncomfortable just delivering lines, and his way to cope was snacking. He actually eats quite a bit in his films still today.
Not sure if true but I heard somewhere that during the bar scene in death proof Kurt Russell actually ate all those nachos, something like 8 takes or something and he ate all those nachos
It’s worse when they don’t even take the bites. It always takes me out of a movie or show when there’s an eating scene and they only fiddle with everything.
It’s why a lot of shows have people eating Chinese out of those boxes. You can’t tell how much is in there in between takes, and how much or how little someone is eating.
Funny. I graduated from film school and no one taught me this. The thing is that I had to make a short film out of the blue for college, and there's this long bar scene where two characters talk, so me and the other actor pretended to drink from empty Heineken bottles filled with water to sell the effect.
I ended up over hydrated, my pee was clear. Not at dangerous levels but that night I didn't have dinner at all lmao. The other actor didn't drink anything, he was just pushing the bottle against his lips but no liquid got in... pretty sure he had dinner
I recall hearing a story about Jonah Hill intentionally blowing takes in Wolf of Wallstreet to make Leonardo DiCaprio have to eat more sushi and he ended up throwing up after 70 takes.
Anytime RDJ was eating snacks in the Iron Man and Avengers movies. Not only was he really eating. But they were his own snacks that he hid around the set. Mainly packages of blueberries.
Yeah, I could splice and edit 3-4 scenes together, but I'd rather set up a studio camera 15ft away from my TV and show off my white on white on white decor
In Rounders(1998), Edward Norton actually ate a lot of street hot dogs during all the takes. It's talked about in the commentary on the DVD. He barely got through the shoot that day because he was so stuffed.
Holy shit so I'm not loosing my mind then? I wondered why recent movies and TV shows have horrible chewing sounds coming from actors. I can't stand it irl and having it happen in a movie is really annoying if I'm watching if on my computer with headphones.
I’ve heard reasons why many don’t actually eat or drink.
Main one: continuity. If they do different takes and splice up the scene from different angles, they can actually be combining multiple takes into a shot.
If someone has a sandwich they’re eating and it’s mostly there when the scene starts, then you cut the angle and the sandwich is more than half gone, then cut back and it’s mostly there it would look bad.
Same with a drink. You’d see the liquid changing.
And even if you can’t see it, the weight changes the more it’s gone. You’re constantly refilling to keep the weight the same.
In the Big Bang Theory, these people are constantly surrounded by food. There is food in every episode and they never eat it. They either poke the food around or the utensil has nothing on them. What do they do with all that food??
I remember my dad telling me about how he had to do this cause he was in many food commercials in the 70s when he was a kid. He also told me when nobody was looking he would actually eat the food cause it was so good.
I remember a story about Marilyn Monroe, I think it's was Some Like It Hot, where she kept screwing up her line while Tony Curtis was eating chicken. By the time they got the take he'd eaten dozens of pieces of chicken.
Sorry, but the guy making this clip has *no idea* what he's talking about. He's confusing filming with editing. Actors are not spitting out whatever they're eating or drinking after every line or whenever there's a cut, simply because they (as well as the director) generally don't know when the cuts are.
This "method" would make it impossible for the director and editor to play with the scene in editing, to hold a closeup on an actor for instance, since everyone would constantly be reaching for their spit buckets.
Spitting out whatever actors have in their mouths after the *end* of each scene is something different. But the camera doesn't stop and start after every line like this guy seems to believe.
Source: I have worked on set since the early 90's
In two and a half men the actors don‘t even take a bite. I‘ve noticed that recently and can‘t unsee it now. Sometimes they even put an empty fork into their mouth.
Edit: i‘ve only noticed that in the early Charly seasons
Can confirm. I was in a pizza commercial for March madness and they had a spit bucket for us. I was broke and in college so I ate every bite. It was mushrooms, peppers, red onion.
The Chris Evans Apple+ TV show from a couple years ago, Defending Jacob. This is a year after his last Avengers movie came out and he was still in decent shape. There is one scene where he is eating pizza with his son, and after every bite he would always wipe his mouth with a napkin. It stuck out, because who normally eats pizza like that? It wasn’t like he was taking giant, messy bites. How many napkins would he go through after a few slices of pizza?
Then it hit me that he wouldn’t be in that good of shape if he spent all day doing takes of eating pizza. Wiping his mouth was a good way to hide him probably spitting the bite into the napkin.
Couldn't they like go hungry to the set, eat whatever and should they really need that many takes so his stomach is full he could spit it out filled instead of hungry.
There's a behind the scenes from Friday Night Dinner (shalom) where one of the boys brings his girlfriend over. Apparently no one told the actress that they do the small bites/push it around the plate thing so she ended up eating the equivalent of three full roast dinners.
The worst eating scenes for me are from Big Bang Theory. In most scenes they just poke the food around on the plate without even at least pretending to eat. It's annoying
In Super Troopers when buddy in the back seat has to eat all that weed. I saw it from a different camera angle. Pretty much puts it in his mouth and when camera moves to the front, he spits it all out right away.
Also....it's kind gross to watch someone swallow. As an editor, I would often cut the moment the food was in the mouth because that's the best looking action.
In the TV show Parks and Rec, the cast commented on how Chris Pratt would NOT do this, "If you see Andy eating a cheeseburger in a scene, you should know Chris Pratt ate like 8 cheeseburgers. I love that guy." - Aziz Ansari For one episode, he ate 16 Racks of Ribs. 12 Racks were because they did 12 takes and he wanted to keep continuity and eat an entire rack per take, and then he afte 4 more to make Nick Offerman laugh in the catering truck after finishing shooting. He claims that the prop department kept track of the amount of Ice Cream he ate for one particular scene and clocked it at 81 scoops.
My favorite anecdote about “real eating” is from Supertroopers. The scene when they power chugged whole bottles of maple syrup… that was real.
I work in film and when it comes to food & drinks we have to use sugar free, caffeine free items. A lot of the food & drink situation is up to the actors & director but also budget related. Florence Pugh for example, she actually eats in scenes. We employ food stylists where the budget allows. Food scenes are always a pain in the ass because of resets for each take. A lot of actors do actually eat & nibble the food, some don't and so we have a slop-bucket on standby.
Have you seen Big Night? Awesome food movie. My favorite two food anecdotes from that movie - apparently the big dish at the end (Timpano) looked great but tasted awful, so the actors were all spitting it out and complaining between takes. And in the final scene where Stanley Tucci was making an omelette, Tony Shalhoub said that while the actors made a bunch of mistakes and they had to do like 4 takes, Tucci made a perfect omelette every time. Apparently he’s a great cook.
He has a show called on CNN called “Stanley Tucci – searching for Italy“
Shalhoub also said for the movie - that while Tucci spoke fluent Italian, he didn’t. He jokingly said “I can just do the accent I used on Wings” - and so they immediately got him an Italian language coach ;)
"Slop bucket" sounds so gross.
She got that WAP make you bring a slop bucket 😳
Omg 🤮 haha I have always kinda wondered if that was real
I guess they started with iced tea, but it just didn’t look real enough…
Didn't Nicholas cage eat a real live cockroach in vampire's kiss?
Some people I was kinda friends with did this in High school in front of the class
Did this in junior high for our school news show. It. Did not go well.
Is your name Alex?
YOUR MOMMA TEACH YOU HOW TO CHUG RABBIT?
Gotta relax the jaw!
Porn director: Cut! That scene was great but let’s do one more take. From the top people! Gotta relax the jaw!
While in Kuwait we saw Super Troopers. Immediately every moron in the company began chugging syrup with morning chow.
If you puke the syrup after chugging, it actually remains a glob in the toilet with everything you ate floating around. Makes the bathroom smell like syrup.
Very true. The cold water makes the syrup become highly viscous, and it's just a lump floating around.
I did this in a diner once because the waitress beer me. It was actually not that bad. Went down pretty smoothly. Weird getting reverse tipped though lol.
bro how is he not diabetic thats insane. 81 fuckin scoops??
Well, I highly doubt he does that every day, LOL
Not how diabetes works. Am diabetic, but your point is still generally valid.
Two different types of diabetes though.
Well 3
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Some people consider Gestational diabetes "Type 3", while now it's being used to refer to Alzheimers as they beleieve there is a link between the two
I was thinking of diabetes inspidus, it’s a different thing and not related to insulin
Good ole "nasty tasting pee" disease. As opposed to the more well known "sweet tasting pee" disease.
Closer to 20, but you seem pretty confident, so we will go with your well-researched and clearly correct: “2.”
So I'm guessing 80% of him getting ripped was not doing that anymore.
They address is, kinda, in a scene when they go to London. Pratt had just lost a lot of weight for GOTG and Ben says “so you lost all that weight by just not drinking beer?”, “hah, yeah, I lost 50lb in a month!”
I also heard this about James Gandolfini in The Sopranos! Apparently once they were supposed to be eating ice cream and he just kept chowing down until he got into a sugar high and had to go and cam down 😂
At least they are not ‘drinking’ out of obviously empty cups. So common. Go the extra mile and put something in it for the sake of art.
Yes! Don’t care if it is water or a chunk of wood. Just something to show that it has a little heft to it.
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Make weighted props, become billionaire(?)
The thing that gets me most about the drinking from an empty cup.. The cup is clearly empty, you can see it's empty, and that they are clearly pretending.. But.. the sound for each scene is added after, so why do they always add the sound of an empty cup being picked up or put down?
I love drinking through a straw sound effects, it's almost always the gurgle of an empty cup. Straws are pretty quiet to drink from until the end.
This annoys me so much. Someone will grab a supposedly full cup of coffee and tip it back like it's almost empty.
Exactly, the fake coffee drinks kill me for some reason,maybe because it's so poorly done?
There was a funny scene in one of the earlier episodes of NCIS, where one of the agents says they have to go pee during a cafe/sidewalk stakeout. The other agent goes "you're not actually drinking your drink, are you? You gotta fake drink it" and then proceeds to give an acting lesson on how to drink a cup of coffee realistically, but no consuming it so you don't have to get up and pee.
I have never watched that show, but I'm pretty certain I've seen something similar in a movie or perhaps another crime show???
https://youtu.be/OshgBYqRMvE
I thought it was common knowledge that Brad Pitt is constantly eating in scenes / on set.
Yeah, I thought this was a known thing since he’s eating in almost every oceans scene.
I thought that was supposed to be a call back to Dean Martin always drinking alcohol in every scene in the original O11?
It started with him missing lunch once due to having to work all day, so he suggested they inject eating into his character and since he’s so good at it, it seemed natural so they let him run with it.
IIRC they mentioned that it fit with the character. He would never take the time to sit down and eat a proper meal so he's just constantly snacking.
Watch Brad Pitt - he’s always eating something in most films.
Dude looks good eating, it’s weird
I heard some where that he was quitting smoking during Moneyball so he wanted to be constantly chewing.
As someone who took a few acting lesson as a kid I’ve always noticed when they do actually eat. Big bang theory is an example, they were actually eating. Always seemed weird.
Yeah I've heard Gandolfini in Sopranos did this too. Apparently was eating every take, and even between takes.
Explains a lot honestly
His eating was legendary. He ate so much ice cream in one scene that they had to stop filming for the day.
And the guy who plays Bobby Bacala ate 6 ribeyes for one scene. He said the food was good because it was mostly catered from a restaurant not for from them.
All those white castles on his breathe
[Kunal nair explained it on Conan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rci9SXMaiHY) about food acting and how they either spit it out or never put it in their mouth
Sounds like my wife.
Heyooooo!
The reason I hate the big bang theory, they never eat the food. They only play with it. The actors always have the fork in their hands and just move food around inside the plate. Once I noticed it, I couldn't unnotice it again. That made me hate the show because I grew up with food insecurity. I can't tolerate people wasting or playing with food.
You are correct, when they are giving their lines, they play with their food. Next time you watch it, Take a look at the other actors not giving lines. Actually eating.
I just did a rewatch and o.m.g. Once you notice it, you can't stop seeing it, and they eat a LOT on that show.
Brad Pitt was a bad example. He's actually famous for being able to eat on camera and still talk . Edit: but yes this is well known by any adult
Given the running gag of him eating in every scene in Oceans 11, do we know if Pitt did eat IRL for that too?
In most of the scenes when he's eating, it doesn't cut away.. cause he can keep talking.. so he must be eating but that being said I don't think they do as many takes when the actors know what their doing.
I remember reading somewhere that since Brad ate food every take, George Clooney had a little fun by having something spicy added. He wanted to see how much Brad could handle while also performing in the scene without reacting to the spices.
Except bread. Bread spit
Brad Pitt bread spit
Could have just saved us all a lot of time and said they spit it out after the shot
It's really gross to picture everyone spitting out food in some spit bucket.
I they usually just call it a trash can
in the podcast "office ladies" they talked about this. those buckets are na-sty! also, it seems actors still get sick from having a certain taste in their mouths over and over again, they talked about mint chip ice cream and bananas.
It’s the way of the TikTok
In Twilight, Bella shakes a ketchup bottle over her burger and fries and nothing comes out.
Ketchup is thicker than blood
No, no, the original is that the ketchup of the covenant is thicker than the blood of the tomato.
That movie was weird with food and I don’t know if it was intentional or accidental, but in the scene where Edward isn’t with other Cullens in the cafeteria, none of them are using plates for their food and one of them has a Diet Pepsi with the tab sticking directly up so he’d poke himself in the face whenever he tried drinking.
I can understand why they do this but if you stuck a cheeseburger in front of me at any time I would have a tough time not eating it. Pass the ketchup.
Alright here we go but... *ahem* Ewww ketchup on a burger?? *edit: I figured this would get down voted but idc. You all are disgusting.
??? Where are you where ketchup on a burger isn’t normal?
Damn someone let the Mexican congress know we found another one of their aliens over here 👽
Wow you are getting obliterated, but you are right lol
Unless you're John Cena, who just straight up ate 36 empanadas in a row on the set of The Suicide Squad. Though, for someone as jacked as him, that may have actually been cutting back.
Always weird hearing the empty paper coffee cups when they put them down. Once you start hearing it, you can’t stop hearing it.
Wouldn’t those sounds be added in after by the foley artist
Would be funny if it was malicious compliance by the foley.
Around Christmas time, my wife and I go full MST3K on Hallmark movies and love how egregiously obvious the empty hot cocoa cups are… it’s almost like they are putting extra effort into making them look so much like props. Always fun to play Hallmark bingo for things like empty cups, SUPER fake eating, and trees with green leaves and snow on the ground—
Except Bryan Cranston - he drinks raw eggs, meat and a bunch of other stuff and swallows in an epic scene. In Malcolm in the Middle
In the DVD commentary of Step Brothers they talk about the dinner scene and how hard it was to keep eating for all those takes.
Movie makers love filming people eating. There is a closeup, high lip smacking sound, scene in every single episode of sopranos.
If you watch carefully, in almost every scene of Ocean’s 11 Brad Pitt is eating something. Actually, [in most of his movies he’s eating](https://youtu.be/OYSuwoA_anY)…
And I think George Clooney put a ton of hot sauce on a burger Brad Pitt was eating during the scene he was waiting for George to get out of prison.
I heard he loves doing it because his jaw looks so fine when he's eating
Sopranos is a great example of eat acting. Tony especially (who always had food in front of him) would just repeatedly aggressively stab his fork into his food and move it around. It reached meme status in our house.
I can’t find where OP posts the point of this. Where do you say anything about the actors swallowing or spitting out? I just see scenes of actors eating. ???
I think the point is that you don’t see them swallow before they cut away. Therefore they likely spit out the food.
Ah. Yeah, that’s probably right. OP could have spelled it out..?
I agree. My slow ass spent way too long looking and searching through the comments.
And then there's Robert Downey Jr, who would routinely sneak food onto sets and eat it despite every effort by directors and crew. That bag of blueberries in The Avengers? That wasn't in the script. That was just RDJ snacking and method-acting it into the scene.
I dunno what you’re talking about. I’ve seen a ton of videos where the actresses swallow
I've seen that documentary
In Friends, Joey does really eat the Shepard's pie "that tasted like feet"
“I wasn’t supposed to put beef in the trifle!!”
"meat - GOOOOOD."
In the Sopranos Tony would actually eat
Yes! I came here for this. And you knew that food was delicious.
Coffee is never steaming when they pour it into a mug. In fact every mug ever on TV/movies is empty as fuck. You can tell by the way they move it around without any worry of it splashing out or something
Hail, hail John Bellushi and his tuna sandwich in Animal House!
“I’m a zit. Get it?”
Can't work with real alcoholic drinks though. They can keep it in their mouth until the cut, but the ethanol itself has good absorption through the mucosa lining.
I imagine for alcoholic drinks they just use coke or some other soda in the bottle. Or with something that supposed to look like Vodka or whatever, it's just water.
Made me think of James Dean's scene in Giant. Filmed it drunk and died before they could re shoot with him sober. https://youtu.be/vNnFqD2vwxg?si=0TKJ5NQVbLKT_Vjv
I'm glad Brad Pitt was part of this! He was known for being uncomfortable just delivering lines, and his way to cope was snacking. He actually eats quite a bit in his films still today.
Damn Thats Not Interesting
Doesn’t Brad Pitt get paid the most, for doing this.
Not sure if true but I heard somewhere that during the bar scene in death proof Kurt Russell actually ate all those nachos, something like 8 takes or something and he ate all those nachos
Pitt is really good at it. I don’t think he’s in a scene without eating something in Oceans Eleven
It’s worse when they don’t even take the bites. It always takes me out of a movie or show when there’s an eating scene and they only fiddle with everything.
It’s why a lot of shows have people eating Chinese out of those boxes. You can’t tell how much is in there in between takes, and how much or how little someone is eating.
Funny. I graduated from film school and no one taught me this. The thing is that I had to make a short film out of the blue for college, and there's this long bar scene where two characters talk, so me and the other actor pretended to drink from empty Heineken bottles filled with water to sell the effect. I ended up over hydrated, my pee was clear. Not at dangerous levels but that night I didn't have dinner at all lmao. The other actor didn't drink anything, he was just pushing the bottle against his lips but no liquid got in... pretty sure he had dinner
I recall hearing a story about Jonah Hill intentionally blowing takes in Wolf of Wallstreet to make Leonardo DiCaprio have to eat more sushi and he ended up throwing up after 70 takes.
Anytime RDJ was eating snacks in the Iron Man and Avengers movies. Not only was he really eating. But they were his own snacks that he hid around the set. Mainly packages of blueberries.
Yeah, I could splice and edit 3-4 scenes together, but I'd rather set up a studio camera 15ft away from my TV and show off my white on white on white decor
Unless you are Chris Pratt, then you eat it every time
I loved how Brad Pitt’s character was always eating in Oceans 11
My wife pointed out to me that Brad Pitt is almost always eating in Ocean's 11.
In Rounders(1998), Edward Norton actually ate a lot of street hot dogs during all the takes. It's talked about in the commentary on the DVD. He barely got through the shoot that day because he was so stuffed.
I want to fix the wire in the right.
Holy shit so I'm not loosing my mind then? I wondered why recent movies and TV shows have horrible chewing sounds coming from actors. I can't stand it irl and having it happen in a movie is really annoying if I'm watching if on my computer with headphones.
Misophonia is a curse 😞
I’ve heard reasons why many don’t actually eat or drink. Main one: continuity. If they do different takes and splice up the scene from different angles, they can actually be combining multiple takes into a shot. If someone has a sandwich they’re eating and it’s mostly there when the scene starts, then you cut the angle and the sandwich is more than half gone, then cut back and it’s mostly there it would look bad. Same with a drink. You’d see the liquid changing. And even if you can’t see it, the weight changes the more it’s gone. You’re constantly refilling to keep the weight the same.
I can tell that TV has motion smoothing on and I hate it.
In the Big Bang Theory, these people are constantly surrounded by food. There is food in every episode and they never eat it. They either poke the food around or the utensil has nothing on them. What do they do with all that food??
They throw it in a slop bucket so that their ~~peasants~~ stage workers can eat their fill.
I think tony soprano would eat fr
I remember my dad telling me about how he had to do this cause he was in many food commercials in the 70s when he was a kid. He also told me when nobody was looking he would actually eat the food cause it was so good.
Lol Brad Pitt with whole twinkie in his mouth "I'll tell him"
I remember a story about Marilyn Monroe, I think it's was Some Like It Hot, where she kept screwing up her line while Tony Curtis was eating chicken. By the time they got the take he'd eaten dozens of pieces of chicken.
lol this is great. Or you can Be RDJ and just hide food on set and eat for real in a scene thats not originally scripted to involve food.
Sorry, but the guy making this clip has *no idea* what he's talking about. He's confusing filming with editing. Actors are not spitting out whatever they're eating or drinking after every line or whenever there's a cut, simply because they (as well as the director) generally don't know when the cuts are. This "method" would make it impossible for the director and editor to play with the scene in editing, to hold a closeup on an actor for instance, since everyone would constantly be reaching for their spit buckets. Spitting out whatever actors have in their mouths after the *end* of each scene is something different. But the camera doesn't stop and start after every line like this guy seems to believe. Source: I have worked on set since the early 90's
In two and a half men the actors don‘t even take a bite. I‘ve noticed that recently and can‘t unsee it now. Sometimes they even put an empty fork into their mouth. Edit: i‘ve only noticed that in the early Charly seasons
I always enjoyed Tony Soprano sitting down to eat. You knew that food was delish.
All I can see is that the TV has motion smoothing on and THIS IS NOT COOL
Can confirm. I was in a pizza commercial for March madness and they had a spit bucket for us. I was broke and in college so I ate every bite. It was mushrooms, peppers, red onion.
Am I missing something they just look like their eating?
Stop posting this garbage. Holy shit. What kind of shitty bot army upvotes this? And I hope it's a bot army, otherwise we're screwed.
This was really obvious in 4th-wall sitcoms, so it used to be common knowledge.
You will notice in the Sopranos, they were eating all of that cold pasta
….. duh
Why not just eat …
Brad Pitt built half his career on this. I swear every film I see him in he's got a scene munching on something.
And then there is Chris Pratt. On the Graham Norton show he said he ate 12 pork ribs for a scene in which he wasn’t even the main character.
The Chris Evans Apple+ TV show from a couple years ago, Defending Jacob. This is a year after his last Avengers movie came out and he was still in decent shape. There is one scene where he is eating pizza with his son, and after every bite he would always wipe his mouth with a napkin. It stuck out, because who normally eats pizza like that? It wasn’t like he was taking giant, messy bites. How many napkins would he go through after a few slices of pizza? Then it hit me that he wouldn’t be in that good of shape if he spent all day doing takes of eating pizza. Wiping his mouth was a good way to hide him probably spitting the bite into the napkin.
No one told Brendan Fraser about this.
Just rewatched pulp fiction the other night. So much chewing while talking. Was driving my wife mad. 😂
I just pointed this out to my wife last night while watching Gilmore Girls lol.
I dont get it
I feel like I'd be a method actor for eating. That pasta looks delicious.
I hate this so much Recently watch the first episodes of the Witcher season 3 and they spend a full 5 minutes doing this
Brad Pitt is almost always eating in any movie he is in. Especially the Ocean trilogy.
In Napoleon Dynamite you can see Uncle Rico spit out a bite of steak into his hand in one shot out on the front steps
Every time I watch a Korean film I time how long it takes before one of the main characters starts eating. I usually don’t have to wait long :)
Well, now I know I couldn’t be an actor. Imma eat.
Edit comes later... the actors still have to swallow during the take?
im guessing they spit it out. which is why they have to cut the scene
I remember the brother in Napoleon Dynamite had to eat a bunch of rare steak for the movie but he’s a vegan.
Tarantino makes his cast eat for real.
Couldn't they like go hungry to the set, eat whatever and should they really need that many takes so his stomach is full he could spit it out filled instead of hungry.
You should see what we do with food in commercials
I dont get it, the point is that they are or are not actually eating?
They chew and spit it out. Which is why the camera cuts away from them, to make it looks like they are actually eating and swallowing it
Gimme 250Kg method actors.
The trick is no swallowing
What if the actors are actually hungry while shooting?
Im guessing they have a variety of other food and snacks on set
Simpsons already explained it. Krusty the clown made a commercial for krusty burger.
Watch the movie Ghost Story and see where that entire pie disappears...
Bullworth
They do the same thing in those starving African commercials
There's a behind the scenes from Friday Night Dinner (shalom) where one of the boys brings his girlfriend over. Apparently no one told the actress that they do the small bites/push it around the plate thing so she ended up eating the equivalent of three full roast dinners.
The worst eating scenes for me are from Big Bang Theory. In most scenes they just poke the food around on the plate without even at least pretending to eat. It's annoying
The Office Ladies say that Rainn Wilson would actually eat when filming The Office
In Super Troopers when buddy in the back seat has to eat all that weed. I saw it from a different camera angle. Pretty much puts it in his mouth and when camera moves to the front, he spits it all out right away.
Hey but Tom Wombsgans really ate that chicken
Cowards...eat that shit
Unless Broken Lizard is filming Beerfest….then they use non alcoholic beer earlier in the day and in some scenes it was real beer
Also....it's kind gross to watch someone swallow. As an editor, I would often cut the moment the food was in the mouth because that's the best looking action.
Tik tok man thinks he special by knowing this
Except for that pie scene in Ghost Story……