Whenever you have a tight schedule, you sort of have to film whatever you can that day.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sometimes films have no rehearsals - you don't have real rehearsals on the set because the day is so dominated by the schedule.
When I'm working, I look forward to weekends. Film sets give your time a structure; otherwise, one day can run into another. I often find myself in unusual locations, so Friday nights I might head out with some of the cast and crew to explore the town.
I've never seen a schedule where you just go in two hours almost every day of the week and then all day on one day. Then you shoot it at night with an audience and you're out of there.
Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.
I get quite fed up being on a film set day after day, six days a week. It can get to be a grind.
I've been banking my holidays, which means I take time off later in the year. It makes it a lot easier to fit filming in; it can be quite challenging to study and film at the same time.
The nice thing about doing a weekly record is you're rehearsing all week and working on getting the script better. Come Friday, when it's time to actually film it, you feel like you've done most of the work!
With TV, you have so much to get done during the day that you don't really have a lot of time to feel your way through it. I know before I walk on the set exactly what I'm going to do. With film you can kind of find your way in it a little more, play with it some.
You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.
There is no schedule in the film industry. It's not like you have a 9 to 5 job every day.