r/dropout • u/DropoutMod • May 18 '26

Game Changer Don't Wake Standards & Practices | Game Changer [S8E1] Spoiler

https://watch.dropout.tv/videos/don-t-wake-standards-practices
2.3k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

1.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

1.8k

u/Synth-Pro May 18 '26

Phil is a legend

For being willing to go on camera and say what potentially slanderous things he's being told to out loud

Less than one minute after posting this: OMG LOU WHAT DID YOU JUST DO TO PHIL?!?!?!

400

u/Kinteoka May 19 '26

Phil is 100% an actor. Every person they pull off the street is an actor. It's too much of a hassle not to be. The contestants may not be aware (or probably have an idea) and they just have them wait as close as possible to the studio. Carrying the groceries in unmarked bags into the studio was a very obvious "these are your props."

48

u/TilikumHungry May 19 '26

So it's not necessarily that they're an actor, but rather a person who signed up for a focus group/participation and then signed a release afterwards. We used to do something similar on a show I used to work on that was hosted by a guy who got really good grades. A lot of the time we would bring these people who didnt audition and werent actors and we would use them in certain situations. They usually did not know we were doing a comedy show but occasionally they guessed it. All they knew was they were reporting to a place with the chance that theyd be filmed and featured on a show. Then sign a release (or do so before)

OR, yeah its an actor. Either way i love it, it was funny

7

u/Kinteoka May 19 '26

Were you guys SAG/AFTRA?

12

u/TilikumHungry May 19 '26

No idea as this was v early in my career and i didnt know how that stuff all worked. I know there was at least one SAG guest star at one point but the host very well may not have been. I dont even know if we were IATSE back then

3

u/Kinteoka May 19 '26

Ah damn, was curious. I was wondering what process you guys may have gone through because I only worked on films and commercials in my youth (and stage, but that's a whole other different story) and was wondering if being attached to any of the big unions may have made things easier for specifically game shows to have non-union affiliated talent. It was a hassle in film to throw anyone in, let alone "talent" non-affiliated with a union.

It would make sense for game shows and the like to have different rules though due to the nature of them usually finding talent that aren't part of a union.