Finally, the assistant director needs to be flexible. Things will go wrong—it’s his job to fix them and deal with the crazy atmosphere of grips needing things, makeup needing things and actors being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Ultimately, the assistant director can’t run the set like a boot camp. This will cause friction with the people doing the work and an overly regimented environment is wholly detrimental to getting creative performances out of actors.
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