This SQL snippet does a solid job pulling movie titles along with each actor’s name and the specific role they played. What really stands out is the filter that keeps only those actors who’ve appeared in two or more films — a neat way to highlight the more active performers.

The JOINs are straightforward: links movies with their cast, and connects each cast entry back to the actor table. Clean, simple, and effective. Even though there’s no URL provided, the structure is clear enough that it could easily plug into any database-backed project or reference page www.veduhd.app ...

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Since each Clip always belongs to one Movie, keeping a movie_id column directly on the clips table is the cleanest and most predictable approach. Then, because Clips can feature multiple Actors, and Actors can appear in multiple Clips, the actor_clip pivot table is the correct way to map those many-to-many connections.

So in practice you end up with:

movies ↔ actors (many-to-many through a movie_actor pivot)

movies → clips (one-to-many via movie_id)

actors ↔ clips (many-to-many through actor_clip)

With this setup you don’t actually need hasManyThrough at all. That relationship type is mainly useful when the chain is strictly linear (A → B → C), but in your case the Clip <→ Actor link is many-to-many, so a pivot is the right tool.

From there, displaying things becomes straightforward:

On a Movie page: load its Actors, then for each Actor, filter that Actor’s Clips to the ones tied to the current Movie.

On an Actor page: load their Movies, then filter Clips by the Movie you’re looping through.

You can easily structure your queries so the pages load efficiently, and you’re not fighting the framework.

If you had a reference URL you were modelling after, I’d say this layout would match most standard database patterns used in similar setups.