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The Halt and Catch Fire producers could have thought the cast were planning a coup, but they were just having their own table reads
When AMC wouldn’t plan table reads, the Halt and Catch Fire cast planned their own (which made the studio nervous)
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The cast of AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire loved filming the series. They loved it so much that they couldn’t wait to read the scripts for the next episodes. However, their excitement over reading the next episodes together as a cast led to a misunderstanding with AMC Studios.
“I think it’s worth mentioning, normally on a show you’ll do a table read of each new episode, which is the writers will all get together,” Kerry Bishe says during a panel at the 2024 ATX TV Festival. “The writers, producers, all the actors will all sit around and read each episode. And we didn’t do that because the writers room is in Los Angeles, and we were all in Atlanta.”
“And so, the actors got together on our days off. We would do them on Sundays and we would do them ourselves. I think there may have been a fear that we were getting together and trying to team up on the writers and try and change things. But it really was never that,” Bishe adds.
Bishe went to say that the unofficial table reads were important, because it helped the cast get different perspectives on their scenes. “Sometimes people would have homework assignments. Sometimes somebody would come in and explain all the computer technology shit from this episode so we would all understand what it was. We would go through the scenes and somebody would be like, ‘Oh, I hate this. This is so stupid. I hate this line.’ And then another actor would be like, ‘I love that line for you. I love this scene for you, and here’s why.’ That extracurricular commitment was truly a rarity and one of the things that made the show so good.”
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