‘Immature’ gun handling alarmed ‘Rust’ cast and crew, sources allege: LIVE UPDATES
Gun handling on Alec Baldwin’s "Rust" set in Santa Fe, New Mexico, appeared alarmingly "green," "immature" and "lackadaisical," according to sources close to the set who said they were horrified at times by some of what they saw.
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Hollywood is known for its notable characters, both on-screen and off.Among those to have captured the public's attention for decades is Alec Baldwin, the Academy Award-nominated actor who recently discharged a firearm he was told was "cold," or unloaded, on the set of the movie "Rust."
The incident resulted in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Director Joel Souza was also injured but is currently recovering.
Baldwin is one of four people to have handled the gun on the day of the shooting, so as experts look closer at what happened on the set, here's a look at some of Baldwin's appearances in the headlines over the years.
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Blank ammunition has a distinctive look: a crimped or wadded tip instead of a bullet. But dummy rounds are supposed to be stand-ins for real bullets, inert but identical or nearly identical.
"You know, it's the most concerning thing to me when I'm on set because they are intentionally made to look identical to a live round," Bryan Carpenter, a longtime armorer whose recent work includes USA Network’s "Queen of the South," told Fox News Digital.
Depending on the manufacturing process, some have a hole in the casing. High-end dummies don’t, according to Carpenter.
Santa Fe deputies said they recovered a mix of blank rounds, dummies and real bullets from the set after the accidental shooting. "You have to go through and just be ultra, mega careful with these things — because they look identical," Carpenter stressed.
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Angelina Jolie spoke out about the recent accidental shooting involving Alec Baldwin that resulted in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
The "Eternals" actress has worked with guns on many different movies, including the "Tomb Raider" franchise as well as "Mr. and Mrs. Smith." She’s also directed a few movies that have required firearms on set. As a result, she knows the safety precautions that are in place and can empathize with a cast and crew who learned the hard way that sometimes those aren’t enough.
"I can’t imagine what these families are going through," Jolie told The U.K. Times in a recent interview. "At this moment, the grief and the tragedy of that accident is quite overwhelming."
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As the investigation into the fatal "Rust" movie shooting continues, the Western's lower budget and salaries for producers, actors, and the armorer have been revealed.
In a new report from The Hollywood Reporter star/producer Alec Baldwin, who shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza on the New Mexico set, was going to earn $150,000 as the lead and another $100,000 as a producer through his company, El Dorado Productions, according to a preliminary budget dated Sept. 8, 2021.
The independent drama was allegedly going to cost a total of $7,279,305 and just $7,913 was armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed's fee plus another $7,469 for "armorer crew."
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When actor Alec Baldwin discharged a gun he was told was "cold," or unloaded, on the set of the movie "Rust' and shot crew member Halyna Hutchins, questions of blame in Hutchins' death immediately began to be asked.
In addition to Baldwin, Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the film's armorer, and two others handled the gun on the day of the on-set shooting. An armorer like Gutierrez Reed, 24, is hired to oversee the use of firearms and ammunition on movie sets and is directly involved in maintaining the weapons.
An attorney for Gutierrez Reed previously told Fox News that "Hannah did everything in her power to ensure a safe set."
Here are five things to know about the young weapons professional.
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EXCLUSIVE: Gun handling on Alec Baldwin’s "Rust" set in Santa Fe, New Mexico, appeared alarmingly "green," "immature" and "lackadaisical," according to sources close to the set who said they were horrified at times by some of what they saw.
They observed the conduct before a fatal on-set shooting accident that left cinematographer Halyna Hutchins dead and wounded director Joel Souza.
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