Agree to disagree here. There are times when someone -- the director against the actor or the producer against the director or one actor against another or a guild against the entire production -- has to say, "I know about your behavior -- the drinking or the harassment or the tantrum or the animal cruelty or whatever -- and I will not tolerate that on this set. Not this time." Otherwise you just give in to the awfulness and you become partially responsible. To go from the Hollywood metaphor to actual politics, hoping for the best was tried before and it doesn't work. Because with these people, there is no best. One can only hope that somehow we can fix it in post.
Agree to disagree here. There are times when someone -- the director against the actor or the producer against the director or one actor against another or a guild against the entire production -- has to say, "I know about your behavior -- the drinking or the harassment or the tantrum or the animal cruelty or whatever -- and I will not tolerate that on this set. Not this time." Otherwise you just give in to the awfulness and you become partially responsible. To go from the Hollywood metaphor to actual politics, hoping for the best was tried before and it doesn't work. Because with these people, there is no best. One can only hope that somehow we can fix it in post.