When You Have Non-public Information on Public Individuals – The Nameless Manufacturing Assistant

Some coordinators will make a distinction between crew lists and make contact with lists,¹ some don’t, however everybody treats solid lists as one thing separate and particular. With superb cause, too.

They Actually Are Totally different

Far be it from me to say that celebrities have tougher lives than the typical particular person. That’s most likely not my place to evaluate. Nevertheless, their lives are usually extra difficult. As Jack Nicholson as soon as mentioned, “The common celeb meets, in a single 12 months, ten occasions the quantity of those who the typical particular person meets in his whole life.”

And what’s particularly weird is, these folks they’re assembly for “the primary time” have most likely “recognized” them for some time. It’s referred to as a “parasocial relationship.” You’ve seen celebrities do TV interviews, heard them shoot shit on podcasts, examine them on gossip websites, and after some time, you begin to really feel like you understand them.

In fact, you don’t know them. And as somebody who works within the leisure trade, you understand these interview questions are vetted upfront, the tales they inform have been rehearsed, and that blind merchandise you learn could not have even been about them in any respect. And but, anybody can get caught up in it and make the solid really feel a little bit uncomfortable by being too aware of them.

Give ‘Em House

Though it’s tremendous bizarre, folks have positively gotten telephone numbers off name sheets and crew lists with the intention to hit on somebody.² I can solely think about the quantity of undesirable texts a good-looking up-and-comer or a reasonably younger starlet would get if their quantity was usually out there. To not point out the sheer variety of unsolicited scripts and enterprise offers they’d be flooded with.

This gained’t be a difficulty simply for individuals who are at present well-known, both. You by no means know which unknown day participant will all of a sudden explode in notoriety once they get solid as the subsequent large superhero.

So, we within the manufacturing workplace create a solid record that’s separate from the crew record. It’ll have the identical info you’d anticipate on the crew, like telephone quantity and electronic mail, however you’ll additionally typically embody issues like their brokers’ and managers’ numbers. For thorough productions, you may be requested embody an image of every solid member, their measurement info (for wardrobe), and their quantity on the decision sheet.

This final half could be difficult on TV exhibits. You might need solid lists for particular person episodes, in addition to a grasp solid record for all the season. Your common solid are for positive going to be the identical 1-7 numbers each episode, however not each AD remembers recurring characters’ numbers from episode to episode, particularly in the event that they go lacking for a couple of weeks. And day gamers? Neglect it.³

You’ll be given particular directions as to who will get the solid record(s), however as a basic rule of thumb, I can say you’ll want to present them to: the road producer, the UPM, the 1^st AD(s), the writers’ workplace, wardrobe, hair, make-up, accounting, and casting departments.⁴ You’ll additionally most likely ship copies to the manufacturing government’s assistant on the community.

Be Cautious

Mainly, the one individuals who’ll have entry to those numbers are a couple of division heads, and also you, the bottom head on the totem pole. Which means you need to be further, further cautious to not by accident put a solid record within the fallacious fingers. If somebody’s quantity will get posted on-line or one thing and so they begin getting harassed, guess who’ll be blamed?