I’ve been wondering how many live rounds might have been in the cylinder. If what he’s saying is true, the hammer was resting on one. If he’d fully cocked the hammer, it would have rotated the cylinder to what kind of round? Looks like it’s going to be laid to incompetence on the armorer’s part, or sabotage.
My question is why was the gun loaded at all during the process of getting the right 'angle' for the film shot lined up.
Get your visual angles lined up first, then load the gun, then shoot the scene.
Yes, if there was only one, it’s Russian Roulette chances, and maybe some mix-up of live and dummy.
If all of them, it’s something else.
But I think I read that that chick armorer unloaded the gun real fast, because . . .