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Most cups on tv are empty unless the beverage is important to the scene.
In one of the latest fast and furious movies, they go to Japan (or maybe Korea?) And theybfake eat a whole scene. Just utensils in food. No one even tries to move the food to their mouth.
As I understand, the F&F movies tend to have more takes than is typical due to the sheer volume of actors that often need to be covered. It's quite common for scenes to require a dozen or more takes. If you put food in your mouth at any point during a shot, you're doing it for every shot.
My wife was watching Mom the other day and one of the actresses was working her way through pasta or something like that while they were taking and I noticed they'd very skillfully shot around her taking bites so she probably only had to take two or three to get the coverage they needed.
most actors will have a spit bucket for when they do chew food, they typically dont actually eat they just chew it into a curd and then spit it out between takes. its gross and you can start to notice them tucking the bolus into their cheeks before their lines
Yes! I'm always scrutinizing this, and most actors do not fake it very well.
They should fill them with mercury. This way you get super cup focused actors.
We are all Mercutio on this blessed day.
meanwhile in France
Also for a lot of outdoor scenes, at least in soap operas, the actors keep an ice cube in their mouth so that you can't see their breath when it's cold.
I noticed this same thing with what was supposed to be an old timey spotlight where it's almost all battery. Actor was swinging it about like it weighed nothing.
Prior to LED torches, the flashlights on films were turned off, and the light was painted in later, as the beam wouldn't show up on film anyway. This is doubly true in that night scenes were filmed during the day and they just filmed through a grey filter.
If there's ice in the cup it's often made of like silicon (I think) which the thought of just makes me really uncomfortable for some reason.