Alec Baldwin
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During the second week of filming, an issue with hotels comes up for the crew, because they're pulling what they feel like are some very long days on the set.
They went to the production to talk about this so that after 12 hour days, they didn't have to drive for like dozens and dozens of miles just to get back to somewhere where they could put their head down for just a few hours.
They didn't have to get back up again and go right back to work.
My drive to set was 75 miles a day, each way, every day.
The work schedule, the ins, the outs, when we would come in in the morning, when we left, it was really never a problem.
There was nothing about the schedule that was grueling.
The Russ Productions team told ABC News that they're confident that they provided hotels when they were required.
This issue of the hotel rooms became such a divisive issue.
On Sunday, the crew's call time was noon.
They were there till 1.30 in the morning.
It was dark out, but it was cold, and they were gathering up all their equipment.
And one of the camera operators that night, what I was told, spent a few hours sleeping in his car because he felt it was unsafe to drive home.
And that's really, I think, when the tensions with the camera crew really started to grow.
That day, one of the camera operators asked for a hotel room that night, and the production said no.
And that, what several of the camera operators and assistants and camera crew people told me, was that that's when they felt like these people don't care about us.
Later that night, Lane Looper and some other members of the camera crew, they email production managers their resignation letters.