In this interview, host Stewart Cohen celebrates Kaitlyn Bunting’s one‑year anniversary as a producer at Stewart Cohen Pictures. Kaitlyn recounts her first assignment—a high‑energy house‑party set where a director literally blew fire—highlighting the excitement of early set experiences. She explains the producer’s core responsibility of attentively managing diverse agencies, clients, talent, and crew, ensuring everyone can perform at their best. Kaitlyn shares her enthusiasm for casting, describing the thrill of matching actors to roles such as a Family Dollar Holiday campaign. She reflects on the challenges and support of assuming a leadership position at a young age, noting the confidence fostered by her colleagues. Memorable anecdotes include standing next to NFL star Rob Gronkowski and the practical tactic of using food (Crafty, Canes) to soothe cranky crew members. The conversation wraps up with optimism about future, larger projects.
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Hey everybody, I'm Stewart, and today we're here talking to Kaitlyn on her 1-year anniversary at SCP.
Hi everyone, my name is Kaitlyn Bunting and I'm the producer here at Stewart Cohen Pictures.
Kaitlyn, tell us about the first project you did with us.
My very first job here was a Stewart Cohen house party, and it was so fun and so energetic, and I've never been on set where a director literally blew fire before, but that's when I knew every set was going to be super fun and super high energy.
Tell us about the variety and how you've rolled with managing different kind of agencies, clients.
I think what I've learned is that every person, I think, approaches a situation a little bit differently. So you just kind of have to make sure you're, you're always attentive to what people need. And I think that's what my job as a producer is, is to kind of make sure everyone on every plane, whether that be clients or talent or crew, are feeling comfortable to do their work the best they can.
With people, another big element of what we do is casting.
Casting has always been one of my favorite parts of the production sphere. I think it's so fun to see like who truly embodies this role and brings it to life. Family Dollar Holiday, trying to like ask Scrooge, like, who is Scrooge? It's super fun. But it's so exciting when you're on set and you're like, yeah, we got it right.
Okay, you're a young producer and very talented, I might add. Has it been strange at first having this position of power at such a young age?
It's definitely been the thing I think I've been most conscious of. I've been surrounded by people like you and people here at SEP that have always supported me and lifted me up and never made me feel like my age has ever meant that I couldn't do it and have always held a high level of expectation that I always try to meet.
You have taken on a huge role at a young age, and with grace and authority and humor, and people love you because of it. What was it like standing next to Rob Gronkowski?
I don't think you can ever truly understand how large of a man he is until you're close to him. I was expecting to have to look up. I wasn't expecting, like, directly up to the ceiling, and that I'm only hitting him at, like, his knees. He's such a large man.
When we were shooting canes, how long did you last throughout the day before you had to eat one?
Canes, I didn't hold out very long. I took a bread at the beginning of every morning.
And how do you deal with a crew member that's cranky?
I always try and figure out if I can what crew members like to see in Crafty, because I think the way to someone's heart is through food. So if you can get a good meal that they like or something at Crafty that they like, it always softens them up a little bit. That's amazing.
That's a good recap of the first year.
It's been a great year.
I think when we come back next time, you're gonna see bigger, crazier, wilder jobs that Caitlin put together.
