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Originally Posted by Locke
Right, and I get your point, but I think the fact that a film set has hundreds of people on it and deadlines, etc. makes it more difficult to just delay a day. Thats a huge amount of money.
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As I also understand it, it's partially contractual. I worked for the Expo for a while, and the actors all work/appear on contracts. The contracts tend to stipulate that the show is put first above all else.
So if an actor is under contract to a show or movie, their Expo contract almost always had a clause to give them an 'out' of the Expo contract if the show called them in to work.
This bit is more anecdotal, but I'd often heard that was/is the only way to get some folks to show up at a Con, as actors simply won't risk their "bread and butter" contracts for Con money, so if you don't give them an out if needed, they simply won't even TRY to come.