What Actors Actually Rack Up When They’re Smashing Cocaine On-Screen

When it comes to how not to schneef, Ken, who currently works on The Knick and was previously with It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, says: “You don’t want to use powdered sugar because it gets sticky. You really don’t want to use flour either because if it gets damp at all it just becomes clumpy.” The secret ingredient is inositol, a B-vitamin compound, which may be a familiar taste if you’ve ever had shitty coke, since it’s apparently cut with it on the reg.

 

Whilst both prop masters spoke about performers who have “varying levels of comfort and experience” Ken went into details about those on the pro end of the spectrum: “A term was recently coined in the industry. No names involved. We call it ‘going hot.’ If there’s a long week, and it’s toward the end of the day, and there’s a snorting scene, the actor might request that you ‘go hot,’ or you switch the fake stuff for the real stuff. It happens more frequently than you might think.”

Natalie went on to shade amateurs: “The average person doesn’t have a very extensive knowledge of how much cocaine a certain amount of money can buy, or how much you need to snort to get a decent high. I’ve seen shows where the bag of cocaine carried by a poor character is probably worth $1,000, and they’re just dosing out lines that would be $100 worth of powder. It’s way too much volume.”

And if you are looking to see examples of actors who know very little about cocaine, visual evidence is only ever a ‘cocaine stock photo‘ Google away.

via Hopes and Fears.