Argument!

I got into a small argument with a wardrobe guy on set yesterday. 90% of the time, movie set crew workers are tired and bitter because they have been working obscene hours many days in a row. I get it. They are exhausted and cranky! But I wish they wouldn't take out their bitterness on us lowly background actors because more often than not, we are working on less sleep than them. Yesterday I was about to make a cross with another background actor. As we were getting ready to move, the wardrobe man held my cohort back and told him he couldn't wear his jacket. I didn't hear exactly what he was saying and thought he was talking to me so I was all: "huh?" During this exchange, we had missed our cue to cross. The PA came over and asked me why I hadn't crossed. I explained that the wardrobe guy had started talking to us and we were distracted. The wardrobe man immediately started yelling at me: "Don't you DARE put this on me! I wasn't even talking to you! You were the one who wasn't paying attention! That's not my problem." I responded: "I'm not trying to get you in trouble, I was just distracted by you." He kept saying: "No, you just don't listen! I wasn't talking to you!" Finally I just mumbled "sorry." But I'm not sorry! What do you people thing! I just stood around for kicks? And if the wardrobe guy had told the PA "I was trying to stop them before they crossed in long sleeves." The PA would have understood! So the moral of the story is DO NOT YELL AT THE BACKGROUND ACTOR!