Posted on 10/23/2021 9:44:19 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
The woman responsible for handling weapons on the set of Alec Baldwin's "Rust" had only recently taken on a gig as a head armorer, and shared she had real doubts about doing the job.
Hannah Reed -- daughter of Hollywood armorer Thell Reed -- appeared on the "Voices of the West" podcast last month to talk about her new experiences in the biz. Reed told the hosts she had just wrapped a western movie with Nic Cage called "The Old Way" ... and it was her first time as head armorer on a movie.
In a now-eerie confession, Reed says of the Cage job, "You know, I was really nervous about it at first, and I almost didn't take the job because I wasn't sure if I was ready ... but, doing it, like, it went really smoothly."
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In talking about her training, Reed told the podcast hosts loading blanks in prop guns was "the scariest" thing to her, because she didn't know how to do it ... but it was something her dad had helped her work through.
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LOL!
Precisely. And only an idiot would mistake a live round for a blank.
This whole flurry of articles is everybody doing a CYA before the lawsuits hit.
The bottom line is why did the weapon get pointed at anyone for any reason? IMO this will turn into a meme that firearms are so unsafe, even supposed safely controlled fake guns kill innocent people therefore all guns should be banned.
Baldwin will do the PSA himself as part of a negligent homicide plea deal.
Was hiring her a favor for daddy?? I’d bet on it.
Nice tattoo. I’ll bet it cost as much as an NRA safety class.
BenLurkin did it at Post 3.
The pertinent question to ask here is: Why did Alec Baldwin point a loaded gun at his coworker, and murder her?
All the other facts are peripheral to the fact that he killed the woman.
He was responsible for his actions, no one else.
I remember seeing an old photo of Edward G. Robinson in some movie leaning against a wall. A trained marksman was going to fire some live rounds into that wall for the special effect.
But that was in the 1930s.
It will be interesting to see the chain of custody regarding the guns and find out WHY Alec felt he could just point and shoot at someone on set without any forethought or responsibility for what the outcome of that could be. Arrogant disregard perhaps?
Baldwin is panicking now. He’s making posts on Twitter that any good defense lawyer would never let him make. This is gong to be sweet.
He should be panicking. What’s his twitter handle?
On another thread here, Navy Patriot made the excellent point that Alec was not only the actor here. But more importantly one of the production’s producers which ultimately carries incredible legal and criminal weight to the insuring of safety on set. This is going to get even more interesting over time. There isn’t a lot of deflective wiggle room here for Alec.
If I remember correctly, the Lee incident was a real bullet with a primer only, but the bullet lodged in the barrel. Later on, they fired a black through the same gun, which expelled the bullet at high velocity.
Alec Baldwin was great in “Team America: World Police”.
It's a very good question, and there are no good answers. If they needed real ammo for other filming, or wanted it for playing around during breaks, there should have been a specific and formal procedure for keeping live ammo away from the set except during filming for specific scenes that required live ammo.
I would guess that a lot of people on FR have the same routine that I have for cleaning firearms. I unload my firearms, move to a different room where there is no ammo ever, check that my firearms are unloaded, and then clean them. Long ago, my wife asked me to unload and clean in the same room so that I wouldn't have "gun stuff" in two rooms. It's one of the rare times I said "no" to her and wasn't even willing to discuss a compromise.
Hollyweird lets anyone play with guns but you shouldn’t own yours 🤪
Her resume looked good enough because her father had worked in the industry?
What could possibly go wrong?
/sarc
So far a couple of crew on set have said that the director and/or cinematographer wanted another take on the scene Baldwin was in. Baldwin got pissed off, pointed what he thought was a prop gun at them, uttered profanities and fired.
So far on separate threads I've seen two versions of the same story and given Baldwin's well known volatility, it's entirely possible it happened that way.
Baldwin is a total POS. Remember what he said to his own daughter years ago—called her a disgusting little pig—and assaulted a photographer too in NYC. If this is true, and it sounds feasible, the DA needs to press charges against him immediately for murder.
Anyone who is a lawful gun owner knows the four rules of gun safety:
1. All guns are loaded. Treat them as such.
2. Never point a gun at someone unless you plan to kill them.
3. Never keep your finger on the trigger until you are ready to shoot and kill.
4. Know your target and what is beyond it.
If everyone applied these rules to gun handling, which are basic common sense, there would never be incidents.
I am sad that a woman lost her life so senselessly to such an arrogant jackass. Did not have to happen.
Hollywood protects its own.
Thank you for the good news.
Isn’t the cinematographer’s husband a lawyer?
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