How do they make babies/toddlers cry in movies and TV shows?

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The Movie Lady — 5 years ago(August 13, 2020 06:55 PM)

I was watching 2 episodes of Troy: Fall of a City with my dad and there's a scene where that mother is holding her crying infant. I know all babies cry, but I always wonder how they get them cute little nuggets to cry in movies and TV shows…same goes to the baby in From Hell.
Goddamnit, man! You done made me hurt my dick hand. (Phone Booth, 2002)

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My Red Dead Online Guy is NOT Mongo — 5 years ago(August 13, 2020 06:59 PM)

I always thought they stood just off cam with a gun to the parents head.

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Mafti Patel — 5 years ago(August 13, 2020 09:07 PM)

How was this one baby train to say it 'HASS HOLE', hana?

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Rajesh 'Raj' 'Rajee' 'Raju' 'Premraj' Mullan — 5 years ago(August 13, 2020 09:09 PM)

Hallo buna. How are the make Little Jack do this ways in the same movies, hana?

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MovieManCin2 — 5 years ago(August 14, 2020 04:35 AM)

A better question would be how do they keep them from crying.
MAGA! FAFO! Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder.

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Sophienoire — 5 years ago(August 14, 2020 04:40 AM)

smack on head or fingers!
the sound of your racing heart

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Bashrat Din — 5 years ago(August 14, 2020 12:40 PM)

Or tie them up with duct tape and put them in a dark room, hana

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ToastedCheese — 4 years ago(October 16, 2021 03:46 AM)

Kinda like this but on the bottom….
Norman! What did you put in my tea?

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Faptain Kirk — 4 years ago(October 16, 2021 03:47 AM)

They put habanero pepper juice in their mouth and if they still don't cry they put a little in their eyes.

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ToastedCheese — 4 years ago(October 16, 2021 03:51 AM)

Norman! What did you put in my tea?

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Deluded Juice — 4 years ago(October 16, 2021 04:41 AM)

They tell it the parents are now dead and it will be raised by Michael Jackson.
Stupid babies don't know that he is dead.

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up — 4 years ago(October 17, 2021 09:16 AM)

Don't give them anything to eat for a couple of days.

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ferryman — 4 years ago(October 17, 2021 09:32 AM)

They pinch the baby's leg where the camera can't see it.