Prop makers often have to make props that aren’t just handled, but consumed by an actor.
Food stylists like Melissa McSorley have to replicate an object’s true properties while making something safe to eat. In HBO’s “True Blood,” the characters had to consume a lot of blood, meaning her concoction had to go far beyond just using red juice. In fact, she must replicate the viscosity of blood to make it real.
And McSorley used cleverly disguised dates to imitate a live cockroach for “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” and made edible maggots from scratch for Netflix’s “Daybreak” so she wouldn’t harm any actual live maggots.
You just gotta watch this!
You should know that preparing a dish just for a photo shoot is very different than what you would do for a movie scene.
The former may not even be edible and no one would notice, but in movies, especially now that directors want actors to interact with their real food to make scenes more believable, faking food is almost impossible.
At the same time, with technological advances, such as high-definition (HD) lenses, fake things are exposed on camera, which is why more and more producers are going for 100% authenticity with everything that appears on camera, including food.
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