
Originally Posted by
SeeDRankLou
It's not like they just go in, say the lines, and they're done. They have to first get it right, second get it right with the way the characters are moving their lips on screen, and third get it right doing the second. There are takes after takes, sometimes they want it done in several different ways and they'll choose which one to use later. They want different inflections of the voice, yadda yadda yadda. This can take a week or two, even if you are doing just a few hours of script. When they are doing film, I've heard documentaries of actors saying that some 30 second scenes takes them all day to film. Take out all of the physical acting from that you are probably left with several hours to do 30 seconds. 30 seconds! Imagine several hours, it takes a while. Things happen in actors' lives, they get different/better stuff and they have to choose what to do.