I’ve worked on multiple shows and don’t recall the actor using the gun is to check if it is loaded or not. Many actors have never held or know how a gun works. Any feedback from my Hollywood/NY peeps?
Then it's good they never hold one. Just like any prop, if they don't know how to use it they shouldn't. I imagine Steve McQueen knew how to ride a motorcycle or he wouldn't have been allowed to ride one in a movie.
Truman Capote famously said "actors are dumb". While there have been intelligent actors who knew how to handle guns (people like Gary Cooper or Charlton Heston come to mind), I suspect most actors really are pretty dumb (based on their political comments, that seems to be true). I don't think safety with guns should ever come down to whether a flaky movie star checks his or her gun. Can you imagine some dipshit like Alyssa Milano knowing how to check a gun?
I think Arec Barrwin's culpability will come down to his being the producer and having apparently hired incompetent prop people and thereby running an unsafe film shoot.
That’s my feeling as well. O seriously don’t think that Alec Baldwin has any idea how to use a gun.
Sounds like you’ve had a fascinating career! I always wanted to work as a screenwriter. Took a class in it. The most fun four days of my life.
Most of my tv/film career has been documentary work. However, I know enough in that blank wadding and debris can be a problem, so I kept the camera team clear of the shooter, even from the sides ("Battle of Horseshoe Bend") . We once used rubber guns in a cop show and I added sound effects and a 2-3 frame muzzle flash in edit, which looked great and took me a whole 5 minutes to match it. Easy and safe. Conversely, I once played an Escapee where we had a real Jeffco Colorado SWAT team. I'm 100% sure not all of those pros cleared their weapons before aiming at or near me, but they were all straight fingered.
Well, I've never worked on a movie set and I don't see why live ammunition would ever be used on a movie set, but if it is, every actor/actress to handle the gun should have some training as to how to handle it.
I’ve worked on multiple shows and don’t recall the actor using the gun is to check if it is loaded or not. Many actors have never held or know how a gun works. Any feedback from my Hollywood/NY peeps?
That’s a problem right there. Anyone who will be handling a gun in any way should take a firearm safety course. Especially the actor who will be firing it.