I once had to deal with a drunken boss on a film shoot....
...who, after two weeks of being arsed around by her and dealing with all production issues myself, decided to fire me on the last day.

Unfortunately, she'd recently added insult to considerable social injury by hiring THE most unpleasant assistant director a couple of days before to complete the shoot. All the crew hated her, make up and wardrobe ended up in tears, actors rebelled frequently - all after just two days of her. I had been dealing with all the emotional mess it caused amongst everyone, trying desperately to hold everything together, so being told I 'didn't need to be there' on the last day itself (not an advance call or anything) did quite piss me off.

And so it happened that walking out of the building first thing that morning I bumped into camera, sound and lights arriving. When the boys saw me they asked why I wasn't up there, and I told them I'd been fired.

And thus the entire technical crew ushered me into a cafe, bought me a hot chocolate, and refused to go upstairs and commence the shoot until I'd drunk it as slowly as possible.

They were two hours late, blamed "traffic" (said in inverted commas, too) and at the end of the day told the producer and AD to go fuck themselves.

I was so proud.
(niceandwarmandhot vive la résistance, Thu 29 May 2008, 13:00, 2 replies)

good for you
I hate those Harry Potter films anyway

and who'd have thought De Niro would get so pissed?

(*fishes for clues)
(The Goat www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com, Thu 29 May 2008, 13:03, closed)

god
your life sounds like the total opposite of mine. Working on Doctor Who and all that...
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Thu 29 May 2008, 13:08, closed)