Thousands of people have been left baffled after learning that some key parts are removed from cars in order to make it look better when filming a scene for film or TV shows
Despite how many films or TV shows you’ve watched, you might not have realised that most production teams removes certain parts of the vehicles in order to make it look better on camera.
It can be mindboggling when you realise just how much work goes into making a film or a TV show that most viewers won’t even think twice about. While the acting and filming, as well as editing it all together might be the obvious parts, there’s also several other teams that work their magic, including set design, stunt work, as well as special effects, to name a few.
One film fanatic, Reeves Connelly, has now left several people baffled as he went on to share a ‘film making secret’ that many viewers might not think twice about when watching their favourite films.
“Cars in movies and shows will usually have their headrests removed, because it blocks the camera from capturing the actors in the backseat,” Reeves claimed at the start of his Instagram video. “And the rear view mirrors will also be removed for the same reason.”
However, while it sounds dangerous to remove these things from a car, the cars used in movies will usually not need them as the actors rarely actually drive the cars.
Instead, the cars are usually driven by stunt drivers on top of the cars, meaning that the actors won’t have to focus on the driving and can instead just focus on acting.
And it’s not just cars that actors often pretend to drive. If they don’t know how to ride a horse, an electric one will be driven around for them, making it look like they’re riding a real one.
“And for the scenes where the car rolls over, the actors basically go on a rollercoaster ride, because they’re secured to their seats by a lap bar, and then spun around on a rotating rig, so that their arms are free to flail around to sell the realism,” he explained.
So what happens if the car needs to go in reverse? Well, these cars will have two stunt drivers on either side of the car, at the front at the back, and both will be out of sight for the cameras that are filming the actors inside of the car.
He went on to claim in the caption of the post: “The headrests are usually not removed for scenes where there’s nobody sitting in the backseat, but if they already recorded a scene without them, they’ll just remove them for all of the scenes, to keep it consistent.”
Several people quickly took to the comment section to share their bafflement as they’d never realised this before.
“The more you know!” one person commented, while another viewer said: “Thank you for this information because I’ve always wondered about driving and car scenes lol.”
A third person said: “My flabber is gasted.”
Someone else also added: “And also they will usually reupholster the interior grey because it shows up better on camera, see Little Miss Sunshine 1978 Bus.”
