There’s always someone at work that makes the job a little more difficult than it needs to be. For Gerard Butler on The Bounty set, it was the paparazzi.
“A lot of the paparazzi are really good people but some of them are a nightmare. They go out of their way to disrupt filming and it’s really sad because you’re there with a crew of 200 just trying to make a living. You’re there for 16 hours a day and you have these guys who don’t care if they’re standing in your shot.
“If you go over and you speak to them, they’re like, ‘Don’t f**king touch me!’ So you’ve just got to sit there and wait. Or they’ll flash, so the film you just shot is useless. It’s unbelievable sometimes what they do and you’re thinking, ‘This is allowed?’ That can be very frustrating”.
Can you imagine working, then having to redo everything over and over again because of something someone else did? And that someone, didn’t even work with you. How frustrating!
While he has had paparazzi on the sets of his movies before, he said that because of filming The Bounty with Jennifer Aniston, it just added to amount of photographers that showed up.
“Unfortunately for poor Jennifer, this roadshow comes out all the time, and then of course there were all the rumors about her and I dating, just because we’re doing a movie together, which brought out even more paparazzi.