When you're on a video call and sneeze on your monitor, you can't edit that out (nor can you mute it, since your computer's mute button mutes your speakers–not your mic). But with the time to edit, it's rare indeed that a hot mic on the set ruins an actor's career. Sure, movies have bloopers-and sometimes things will slip through the cracks. But really they're the combination of hundreds of cuts and snippets edited together with the best possible take of each scene. Movies feel continuous, like a snapshot of real life.
