2006-11-04 07:00:20 · 5 answers · asked by duda429 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
Not film, just on TV in commercials. They can show the glass, even the person picking up the glass, but not the actual consumption. These rules don't apply to film.
2006-11-04 07:03:20 · answer #1 · answered by Emily D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no law against consuming it on film for movies, though I do know from speaking to people who are actors (no one famous, alas) that they usually substitute something else non-alcoholic just because there may need to be several takes done of a scene, and they don't like actors getting loopy. Also, not all people who act care to drink. As an example, I was told that ginger ale mixed with sparkling soda (to dilute it and lighten the golden color) makes a great substitute for champagne once some of the bubbles are gone.
There is also no law, in the US at least, against people drinking it on film shot for TV, such as movies or series.
I believe it is not legal to show people actually consuming it in advertisements on TV, but they can show people holding beer bottles or glasses of wine or spirits, just not actually drinking it.
Hope that helps!
2006-11-04 07:12:09 · answer #2 · answered by Bronwen 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, there is no law concerning the consumption of alcohol on film. The reason is much more practical than that. It is very, very rare for a film sequence to be shot in one take. It is filmed and refilmed and refilmed again -- it isn't unusual to do 20 takes before the director is satisfied, and sometimes it can take even more.
Just imagine if the actors were drinking real alcohol. Half way through the session they'd be so plastered they wouldn't know what they were saying, or doing.
So that's why real alcohol isn't used on stage, or during filming.
2006-11-04 07:10:15 · answer #3 · answered by old lady 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All the beer that they drank on "Cheers" was fake and had salt in it to keep them from gulping it, if you notice they only sipped it and it always had a head, a process salt does for beer, I remember going into taverns in the 1970's and the salt shaker was always on the table.
When you figure that sometimes with the filming process, like "Sex in the City" they would have been bombed if they were consuming real cocktails in every shot.
2006-11-04 07:58:04 · answer #4 · answered by The Unknown Chef 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No there is no law against it. In early movies there may have been moral issues against it. Dean Martin always used the real thing. Actors are very non-people like persons and get by with what they want.
2006-11-04 08:57:28 · answer #5 · answered by Thomas S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋