re: “Fake smoking” in movies?

With how many takes you might have to do for a scene I can understand why an actor would fake smoke. Nobody wants to smoke multiple full packs during a day of shooting.

John Wayne had no problems with smoking on film. It has been said he smoked between 5-7 packs of Camel cigarettes a day by many of his co-stars.

I can't even wrap my head around that to be honest.

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I used to really like you on the movie board, now EVERY POST you make has a political tone

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this is a total lie you jew loving commie fig

Rob Reiner is such a fat hypocritical piece of shite.

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Same goes for eating

Jeff Garlin has a bit about this. He was the donut shop guy in Robocop 3 and he suggested to the director “hey to make it more real, what if I just ate a whole donut for the scene.” And the director was like “hell yes, that’s great”

So about 40 takes later (and 40 donuts later) they call it a day and Garlin is getting taken to the hospital after passing out in the car leaving the studio

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I recently read the autobio of the actress who played the
schoolteacher on Little House On The Prairie. I figgered she was
some conservative Theatah type -- turns out she was a '60s hippie
chick who hung out w/Jim Morrison and others in the Laurel Canyon
scene. (she also plays the mother in Eraserhead)

She wrote something very interesting. When she was a starving young
actress she got a job on some TV show where she had to eat dinner. She
showed up on the set hungry, and when they shot the scene she wolfed
down her food voraciously. What she didn't realize is that they would
shoot various coverage shots: long, medium, two shot, her CU etc...
And every shot had to match her wolfing down the food. By the time
they finished the scene she was about to burst.

(You may have heard the story about Sinatra storming off the Guys &
Dolls set after Brando kept blowing his lines -- deliberately? -- in
a two shot where Sinatra had to eat cheesecake. I've seen outtakes
from Paper Moon where Tatum O'Neal kept deliberately blowing her
line so Ryan had to keep eating pancakes)

The Little House actress said she was too young and naive to know the trick actors use in such scenes: play with your food -- don't eat unless you absolutely have to.

I remember watching a Gunsmoke that had a scene in a cafe. Matt is having
stew for lunch. We see James Arness stir it, cut some of it with a
knife and fork, even bring some of it up to his mouth -- but we never
actually see him eat anything.

Just something to look for in future eating scenes you see.

She ruined real multiple takes for everyone:

Smoking cigs is trashy as frick.

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My other peeve is actors playing musical instruments badly.

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That is legitimately distracting. Like, if an actor is playing a violin or cello or something and the bow strokes don't come close to the music it's completely obvious. and you don't even have to be very familiar with the instrument to notice.