In the video, Marsden says she can’t fathom why her restaurant was forced to shut down (again) — even after she had successfully ran outdoor dining for months behind her building — but film sets like this, which look virtually identical in set-up dining-wise, can soldier on.

The new rule — restaurants close on-the-spot dining, while music/video production can keep rolling — is one of many that have left Angelenos scratching their head as Mayor Garcetti has instituted a new stay-at-home order in the City, which just got expanded to all of SoCal.

In a section about activities and businesses allowed to keep operating, production in L.A. can continue — which explains the Sherman Oaks set — but it says clearly … they gotta follow COVID protocols as outlined by the County.

That’s where Marsden might be mistaken in her juxtaposition. Fact is … there’s a ton of rules that production companies must abide by in order to shoot, including regular testing, plus a bunch of other mandates … mask-wearing, temp checks, social distancing, sanitized sets, etc.

The big difference is the testing, and who’s allowed in or out. A movie or TV shoot can have an awful lot of people on hand (just like a restaurant) at any given time, but the dinstinction is that the set — while it’s shooting — is treated almost like a bubble, whereas a restaurant is revolving door of strangers, who aren’t required to get tested to partake.