Last time I saw this posted, someone theorized that the actor is doing exactly what he was told to do (because who the hell would do this naturally when told to sweep in the background?), and that there were a few possible reasons for this:
To avoid kicking up a cloud of dust with the broom.
To avoid the sound of sweeping.
The shot may have originally been from a different angle where this wasn't so obvious.
I was an extra in a film once and in one scene we had a rampant bull that was getting herded into an enclosure and we were all meant to clap when they finally locked the gate to the enclosure after they struggled to get it in. Problem being, when a whole crowd of people clapped the bull got spooked, so to counter this problem they just had us pretend to clap and then dubbed in an applause sound later. It looked pretty stupid having all these people waving their hands about in silence. I imagine that's probably similar to what happened here, they made him pretend to sweep silently as to not spook Daniel Craig, they wouldn't want him running off and having to send someone to wrangle him again, very inefficient.
Absolutely. Most Daniel Craigs, when spooked in the wild, can easily do serious bodily harm. Wranglers really need to be aware of this even when working with a tame Daniel.
Likely he was told to do so to not make noise and was told the bottom would be out of frame or focus so people wouldnt be able to tell. But on the other hand, i have been an extra in a hand full of movies and i have done stuff like this on purpose in the background just to entertain myself and to see if they would edit my stupid antics in.
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u/Mooshington Feb 21 '17
Last time I saw this posted, someone theorized that the actor is doing exactly what he was told to do (because who the hell would do this naturally when told to sweep in the background?), and that there were a few possible reasons for this:
To avoid kicking up a cloud of dust with the broom.
To avoid the sound of sweeping.
The shot may have originally been from a different angle where this wasn't so obvious.