Posted on 10/22/2021 10:26:23 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
The production of the upcoming western movie Rust came to a tragic halt on Thursday afternoon in New Mexico, after actor and producer Alec Baldwin discharged a prop firearm that resulted in the death of the film’s cinematographer.
Halyna Hutchins, 42, was reportedly struck in the stomach and was airlifted to the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque, where she died, according to Deadline.
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“Rule number one, when you’re doing these rehearsals, the firearm, even though it has blanks, it’s never fired at anybody, the angles are always cheated,” Howell says. “Those angles always look to the viewer as though it’s directed at them, but it isn’t, it’s always aimed off. So, the actors train, train, train, and then when the armorer decides that rehearsal is fine and lets everybody know, then you go ahead. So, it’s very, very controlled—health and safety risk assessments before you get there, and everybody is aware when there are live firearms on the set firing blanks.”
“We never point that barrel at another actor, even if it’s a gun that has a block barrel, it’s just good training,” Hunter added. “If you don’t point a gun at another human, it won’t kill them. You’re never supposed to have live ammunition on the set, but just because there’s no live ammunition does not mean that something can get in the barrel of a gun and become a projectile.”
It is unclear if the gun was fired during a scene rehearsal or filming, but Hunter explained that the firearm should never be placed in the actor’s hand until the last possible minute.
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I used to live in West Virginia. Union members murdering “scabs” and sabotaging non-union people wasn’t even front page news.
James Whitmore played the same role in the movie.
Get lost, idjut. Unless that was sarcasm.
He has a responsibility to not point the gun at anyone on the set. Scenes are filmed so that guns are actually not pointed at the target. He also is a producer and as such is ultimately responsible for on-set safety.
Who is the ignorant one now? Learn some gun safety and get back to us.
“He has a responsibility to not point the gun at anyone on the set. Scenes are filmed so that guns are actually not pointed at the target. He also is a producer and as such is ultimately responsible for on-set safety.”
Yes to all.
Yes, of course I know it is false. The idea of saying "all guns are always loaded" even though we know that is not the case, is simply to put an extra psychological edge on the first rule of gun safety. I find it to be helpful. Others may think it is not.
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