Posted on 10/22/2021 8:13:01 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed on the New Mexico set of the Alec Baldwin film “Rust” after she was shot by a prop gun fired by the film’s star and producer, Alec Baldwin. IATSE Local 44, which covers prop masters, sent an email to its members early Friday morning that said the gun used in the scene contained “a live round” and the production’s propmaster was not a member of Local 44. Director Joel Souza also was hit and injured by a bullet and was treated at an area hospital before being released.
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In the email that IATSE Local 44 sent to its membership, Secretary-Treasurer Anthony Pawluc described the event as an “an accidental weapons discharge” in which “A live single round was accidentally fired on set by the principal actor, hitting both the Director of Photography, Local 600 member Halnya Hutchins, and Director Joel Souza … Local 44 has confirmed that the Props, Set Decoration, Special Effects and Construction Departments were staffed by New Mexico crew members. There were no Local 44 members on the call sheet.”
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They WERE all over Cheney for that, weren’t they? It’ll be interesting to see how they treat it.
Alec Baldwin has shot and killed more people than the NRA.
You really don’t like non-union people, huh?
I don’t care one way or the other. Just pointing out Baldwin’s hypocrisy.
It sounds like they were using a real gun to save money.
I recall reading about a Beretta prop gun that was designed for movies, and used special 8mm blank ammo, specifically so a real round couldn’t be touched off in it. As I recall, it was legally not a real firearm, as it was not capable of taking a real round due to how it was designed, so it could be used in a city, where use of a real gun might bring legal issues.
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