Posted on 10/26/2021 6:53:31 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the 24-year-old armorer who handled weapons on the set of Alec Baldwin’s “Rust,” was the subject of numerous complaints on her previous film just two months earlier after she discharged weapons without warning and infuriated star Nicolas Cage, a crew member told TheWrap.
Stu Brumbaugh, who served as key grip on the Cage Western “The Old Way” this summer, told TheWrap that Gutierrez upset both Cage and other crew members on the Montana production by failing to follow basic gun safety protocols like announcing the arrival and usage of weapons onto the set.
After firing a gun near the cast and crew for a second time in three days without warning, Brumbaugh said that Cage yelled at her, “Make an announcement, you just blew my f—ing eardrums out!” before walking off set in a rage. “I told the AD, ‘She needs to be let go,’” Brumbaugh, adding, “After the second round I was pissed off. We were moving too fast. She’s a rookie.”
It was only after alerting his superiors that the production needed a more experienced armorer who did not make these kinds of basic safety mistakes that he learned it was Gutierrez’s very first movie.
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It doesn't matter.
Baldwin the producer had poor controls on the set, and Baldwin the actor pulled the trigger.
These stories are designed to do one thing: shield Baldwin from liability.
Nicholas Cage is a Leftist Moonbat like Baldwin.
It is a pattern.
They all have immature anger issues.
Granted, having someone do something dangerous and harmful like that would piss of anyone, but he and Baldwin are the kind of people who would get equally pissed if they got a Coke instead of a Pepsi.
When you’ve made Nic Cage mad……
Nepotism kills.
Strangely I prefer Cage movies over Baldwin’s out of what few I can remember seeing.
“They all have immature anger issues.”
Having a gun go off unexpectedly next to me on a movie set would get the same reaction from most people. And without the chance to have your ears protected.
Yes and many times.
I believe that this gal was a party girl who eventually used her fathers name as an armorer to get jobs in Hollywood. I am betting she has no real training. she just let people who worked tangently with her dad believe that he had trained her when the reality was that her dad may of took her a couple times as a kid to the range but that was all. A lot of theses jobs have no real training program and the way you get them is by apprenticeship and family connections
Yep, all three messed up but he’s the first and last line of defense.
Producing or at least co-producing, writer/co-writer, lead actor that pulled the trigger.
I don’t think there’s anyone with as much involvement in the film as him. And he pulled the trigger while aimed at another human being.
I did say that in my post, did I not?
There we’ll be liability to go around for all..
Things like this require a series of failures to happen
As the final holder of this gun, Baldwin is ultimately responsible for its
safety of people on the set.
Any one of us could have done her job better because we don’t see guns as playthings.
Not every Picasso can paint.
The Edge with Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin was quite good.
I couldn’t remember where I heard the term “armorer” before. It was Major Boothroyd (”Q”) in the James Bond movies.
Upon being shown the enhanced showroom features of the new DB5.
James Bond: You must be joking.
Q: As I learned from my predecessor, Bond, I never joke about my work.
Never saw it.
Might have to.
The original Q from the old Bond films was usually some of my scenes.
I would probably act in a similar manner.
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