As revealed a month ago by a Brian Entin interview with Mel Gibson, Gibson needed to do a one-day reshoot, which he figured could’ve been handled in Los Angeles. No muss or fuss. But it finally made more sense to fly to effing Bulgaria.
Gibson: “It was cheaper — more cost effective — to fly the entire American crew…buy their air tickets, fly them to Bulgaria, house them and feed them for three days and do the shooting there, rather than just shoot for one day, locally, in Los Angeles, where they all lived.”
Critical Drinker, 7:22 mark: “There’s no avoiding this…Hollywood’s obsession with identity politics has been slowly klilling [the industry] over the past ten years…I’ve talked at length about the self-righteous actors who make it their business to lectue the worl dabout how to think and act. But now, it finally feels like the culture of Hollywood is slowly trying to distance itself from a culture war they’ve clearly lost.”