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- Part of showing respect for your talent

is creating an emotionally and physically safe

work environment in order for them to do their best work.

Making movies and other productions

can be a really stressful prospect,

but you always need to be professional on your set.

Actors need to feel safe in order

to be able to be vulnerable

and they need to be vulnerable

in order to give those believable performances.

You need to establish trust between

you, the crew, and the actors

or all those performances will suffer.

All of this is to create an environment

where your actors can feel emotionally safe

and able to fully inhabit their characters.

You don't want to go to them and say,

"Can't you just cry on cue?"

They need to be able to get to that moment first.

You also want to make sure they're actually physically safe.

You want to use fight directors when it's needed

and take, of course, the appropriate precautions on set.

One time I was playing a character on a TV show,

a very popular TV show,

where I played a crime victim and I had to be injured.

Not only did I have to deal with using a weapon,

I had to be physically assaulted as well.

There was no fight director on our set

and this was a union set,

so it was quite shocking that there wasn't one.

Anyway, I'm happy to say that I wasn't

actually injured during the filming of this show,

but it could have very easily happened.

There is never a sufficient excuse for an unsafe set,

no matter what the budget or professional level.

If you're unable to provide that safety, you should

probably not be doing your production to begin with.