Apparently The Rock was late ON AVERAGE 7-8 hours per day for his latest movie. Also he's just called Dwayne Johnson now - Check out this report about how he made a christmas movie cost $250 Million
I have always thought that productions can't support "divas". I have no real experience with movie making, but I would imagine there is a ton of "waiting for X so Y can do Z". Not in a rude way, but I would imagine lots of people are expecting other people to be on point so they can do their job. In a certain sense I think that's kind of rad because it implies everyone is sort of working toward the common goal of making some movie magic. Being a "diva" may work in wrestling or certain types of live performances, but something like film production is far more structure and doesn't really want spontaneous change or dynamic alterations to the schedule.
While what I'm gonna say is too friendly to capital, it would feel more right for big stars to have to pay everyone else's wages for wasting everyone's time being a diva.
Maybe more reasonably, productions should be less penny pinching in the first place and maybe The Rock Does Christmas doesn't need to exist.
it would feel more right for big stars to have to pay everyone else's wages for wasting everyone's time being a diva.
I dig the sentiment for sure. Like you said it's friendly to capital, but the larger idea of "the diva is burning away everyone's time, the rest of cast and crew ought to be compensated and the diva ought to have their behavior corrected" makes sense to me.
Maybe more reasonably, productions should be less penny pinching in the first place and maybe The Rock Does Christmas doesn't need to exist.