Emily is a veteran First Assistant Director whose credits include Captain Marvel, Veep, Nashville, Grown Ups 2, and dozens of other film and television productions. With years of experience leading crews on projects of every scale, Emily is known for bringing order to the chaos of set life while balancing logistics, leadership, and people.

In this episode, Emily breaks down what Assistant Directors actually do, why leadership is more about people than schedules, and why “sometimes it has nothing to do with you” when things go wrong on set. She shares stories from building the famous bubble for Grown Ups 2, surviving 9-1-1-level production days, and the reality behind the joke, “We’ll just shoot faster.”