Posted on 10/23/2021 8:01:49 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
The “inexperienced” armorer in charge of weapons on set of Alec Baldwin’s movie “Rust” had given a gun to an 11-year-old actress without checking properly for safety, a report said.
Hannah Gutierrez Reed, 24, daughter of prominent Hollywood armorer Thell Reed, was head armorer on set in Santa Fe where Baldwin fired a prop gun loaded with a live round, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza.
Gutierrez-Reed’s alleged misstep happened on the set of the upcoming Nicholas Cage film, “The Old Way” and temporarily halted filming, sources told The Daily Beast.
“She was reloading the gun on the ground, where there were pebbles and stuff,” one source told the outlet. “We didn’t see her check it, we didn’t know if something got in the barrel or not.”
Gutierrez-Reed reportedly handed the gun to child actress Ryan Kiera Armstrong, forcing concerned crew members to intervene, the report said. The gun was then checked for barrel obstruction, according to the sources.
“She was a bit careless with the guns, waving it around every now and again,” a source said.
“There were a couple times she was loading the blanks and doing it in a fashion that we thought was unsafe.”
A “Rust” production source described Reed as “inexperienced and green,” to the outlet, adding that there had been two other incidents of accidental discharges by crew members.
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I wouldn’t hire that to babysit my dogs, let alone hand me a weapon…
“Affirmative Action hire?”
Nepotism. Her dad is a “legend” *cough* armorer.
Future fat chic in way over her head. She looks about 15.
DM reporting in today’s edition that live ammo and blanks were stored together. Yikes! Also reported weapon that was fired and killed her was used earlier for target practice.
Exactly. She didn’t point it at the film crew and pull the trigger.
I can see Baldwin asking her about checking it. She says it’s safe. He says In anger then we’ll see. Maybe she was dumb enough to to say go ahead or he just fired. For that much splatter to be on his clothes as well as others. Seems like they were in a group talking and not filming.
Sounds like she is being made the scapegoat.🤔
Haha not a funny matter but. Just read an article from the New York post on her. Said she was a 24 year old model before and her dad was a Hollywood armorer and told her a little but she “just figured” the rest out!
LOL I was raised as a farm kid and hunted and target shot for years. Then I was in ROTC in college briefly and passed boot camp. I would think twice before taking that job.
Definitely a feel good WOKE hire with a dash of Nepotism thrown in (maybe just a whiff of something else when you look how pretty she is….just sayin).
in my day a professional wouldn’t use a strange gun without checking it first
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