They were micromanaging the heck out of the show. Who was actually the producer on the ground that was running things? There are a lot of producers listed on the film. On this, our average page count was anywhere from five and a half to eight. My normal experience with Westerns is we do two and a half to four pages a day. There was no time to stop and think about what we were doing. It was just always hurry hurry hurry hurry hurry. … We got one take, and the boom got in the shot, and Joel Souza scrapped the whole shot and broke it up into pieces. But instead of rehearsing it, they packed the background into the saloon. We’d introduced this character, and he would stand at a bar, and we were going to do it in one shot. This gorgeous shot that started on a second story of a saloon, and it came down the stairs, and we would wrap around.
It was a one-take shot, and it was this beautiful thing that Halyna was setting up. I had one conversation with Dave Halls, it was the seventh day he was shooting, about needing a rehearsal on the Steadicam shot they were doing. We were guessing what the talent was going to do. We would line up shots that didn’t exist. And oftentimes, he would say as soon as she walked away, “You guys don’t need a rehearsal,” and would call rolling anyway. We don’t have enough time to do a lineup.” Oftentimes, the only time we would get a rehearsal is because Halyna would actually fight with the first assistant director to get a rehearsal. We don’t have enough time for safety meetings. There was always an attitude of, “We don’t have enough time to do rehearsals. It was always rush rush rush, hurry hurry hurry. It was a short shooting schedule, so it was a huge page count on the day.
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