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In this insightful and professional conversation, Lena Paul discusses what it’s like to balance the dual roles of performer and director, and how each perspective informs the other. The focus of this interview is on creative process, leadership, and responsibility, rather than on-screen content.

This video takes a documentary-style approach to exploring how understanding both sides of the camera influences decision-making, collaboration, and respect on set. Lena shares her perspective on preparation, communication, and creating environments where people feel supported and heard.

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00:00it used to be that you just didn't really see that many performer directors happening and like now
00:05there's one on there's one in like every brand yeah minimum and sometimes that's a good thing
00:11sometimes that's you know kind of more not everybody can be a director but i think that
00:16if you can having the experience of having been a performer is really valuable and it's kind of one
00:21of those things that even if like right now you know i have like a an agreement with digital that
00:28i do like a feature a month and then about a handful of scenes for babes and other companies
00:33one feature a month yeah i'm doing a feature a month um see you next year girl that's a lot
00:40um yeah no because also two digital features are usually four to five days if it's the same when i
00:47was working they're doing series now like i get a lot of the series which is like a like a trilogy
00:53thing as opposed to like a like a four to five episode thing but the next one i'm doing is
00:58actually six episodes that i'm it starts on monday and you have to shoot all six in a month
01:04so i'm shooting from i'm shooting two episodes in two days and then um the the lead had some
01:13scheduling conflicts around the holidays so we're picking it back up in the new year and i'm doing
01:17four episodes in four days oh and you know there's like always the limited budget aspect of it so
01:25really there's like a whole ass dialogue day that they needed that i'm tacking on into one of the gg
01:31days and i'm just like just just kill me just just take me out back and shoot me because the thing is
01:41is that it's not just the days you're on set it's all the prep and scheduling and getting everything
01:46in a way that it makes sense that everybody's not sitting around on set all day and that you bring
01:51in people back the least amount of times and shooting and you don't go from location you stay
01:57in one location shoot everything like that's the hardest thing the the blessing is that this series
02:02is all taking place in one house so that's great and i had like another scene that i had to reschedule
02:08because i told you the whole thing yeah um i had to reschedule that so i'm just like there at the
02:13house for three days straight i don't have to pack my gear in and out i don't have to do anything
02:17that's that's a big thing oh my god you know it's so funny like these these very unsexy things that
02:23go into these 20 minutes that that you guys take to to beat off you know 20 minutes might be a little
02:29bit of a generous yes but we give you 20 minutes worth um but like no it's so crazy like the amount of
02:36planning that like for that scene to happen you know it took three days of work minimum like per day
02:44that like you're working on it and and making it happen
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