Aug 21, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min · 18 segments
Legendary 1st AD Brian Bettwy joins Timecode: DEAD AIR to share stories from more than three decades working behind the […]
Brian BettwyGuest
Jon WoodHost
And then, so nowadays, whenever you're getting your jobs, it's like a text message and you know, hey, you available these days and you jump on.
back then it obviously had to be a little bit different was it just i mean same thing phone call from somebody you know going
hey available these phone calls it was all phone calls everything was different back then uh you know when you gave call times to stunt players you called a stunt service teddies or billies or you know stunt service and you called them to give the call time for the stunt players they're all different routes of uh of doing it.
But back to what we were talking about really quickly with the dirt and me stepping in on that one.
The key to that, being able to step into that situation was the fact that she had prepped it so well.
Yeah, and that was... that was a rough one because despite the schedule there was still a lot of how should i put it um you couldn't trust certain things and so like the famous one being tattoos um having to body
yeah like the wigs and all that so you might have something saying okay we're gonna start shooting at 8am guys need to be called for 5am.
And that's one that I mean, again, it's that whole, the beauty of film where things like that, I mean, it came out a lot of people love that movie.
And, and that was one that, um, that was just so, it was the, the tedium of the hurry up and wait mentality of, all right, we got to pull them to come do a test.
I got, um, the rehearsal and send them back and then cross your fingers that you get them back before in a certain
having to cover his cover machine gun kelly's all we do full body makeup covering all his tattoos and then put on a whole nother layer of tattoos you know it's just it was madness
that and a lot of that has to come i mean just the i guess the calmness because i've worked with a lot of 80s and I mean, literally worked for a lot of 80s that are, that would have driven them mad as far as the stress.
And then, so nowadays, whenever you're getting your jobs, it's like a text message and you know, hey, you available these days and you jump on.
back then it obviously had to be a little bit different was it just i mean same thing phone call from somebody you know going
hey available these phone calls it was all phone calls everything was different back then uh you know when you gave call times to stunt players you called a stunt service teddies or billies or you know stunt service and you called them to give the call time for the stunt players they're all different routes of uh of doing it.
But back to what we were talking about really quickly with the dirt and me stepping in on that one.
The key to that, being able to step into that situation was the fact that she had prepped it so well.
Yeah, and that was... that was a rough one because despite the schedule there was still a lot of how should i put it um you couldn't trust certain things and so like the famous one being tattoos um having to body
yeah like the wigs and all that so you might have something saying okay we're gonna start shooting at 8am guys need to be called for 5am.
And that's one that I mean, again, it's that whole, the beauty of film where things like that, I mean, it came out a lot of people love that movie.
And, and that was one that, um, that was just so, it was the, the tedium of the hurry up and wait mentality of, all right, we got to pull them to come do a test.
I got, um, the rehearsal and send them back and then cross your fingers that you get them back before in a certain
having to cover his cover machine gun kelly's all we do full body makeup covering all his tattoos and then put on a whole nother layer of tattoos you know it's just it was madness
that and a lot of that has to come i mean just the i guess the calmness because i've worked with a lot of 80s and I mean, literally worked for a lot of 80s that are, that would have driven them mad as far as the stress.
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