Worked in TV and film. It’s incredibly simple and highly regulated. (The crew member assigned to the parents when you do this is a trained professional and social worker. )
Need a baby to cry in a scene? Ready?
You take it away from mom or dad and place it in the actor’s hands for the five seconds it takes to record. They cry 95% of the time.
That’s it! Movie magic!
And the parents are literally ten feet away, always in eyesight, behind camera. Again, there is nothing more important than the health and safety of children on a modern set.
It would probably be more difficult to not make a baby cry during filming
A lot of it you can fake pretty well by putting some water on their face and a touch of whatever makeup makes your cheeks a bit rosy.
A lot of the cries the babies have are the “I asked for food and it’s been three minutes and I haven’t gotten it, so I’ll ask louder”, or “I just woke up and forgot I have hands”
“I just woke up and forgot I have hands”
I also wake up and cry because of this, as well as realizing existential dread
i bet they work more on the babies schedule, which includes crying pretttty regularly.
#NotAllBabies
Have you never been around babies? You just have to wait a few minutes.
So I wait a few minutes and then babies are going to just show up?
