Movies ain’t real life. No way in hell every actor ever handed a weapon can be expected to know the complete manual of arms for whatever may be handed them, much less its serviceability. Baldwin was handed a gun that was supposed to look loaded. No way looking into the front of the cylinder matters, as Schneider seems to suggest. I don’t think this was a deliberate act. I’d like to know how many live rounds were in the cylinder. I’ve heard accounts that the cylinder was spun after it was loaded. If that’s true, anyone loading a single live round would have no idea where it was in the order of rotation. I recall hearing that there had been other negligent discharges on the set, and that that was a factor in the union peeps walking off.
As I said earlier, we know how a mechanically sound SAA works. Now we have to find out if that’s what we’re dealing with.
I agree in principle - there are myriad issues to look at here. Insofar as 'negligent discharges' - there
are no negligent discharges, IMO. You either know what you're doing, or you don't. And Baldwin has been an egotistical, insufferable leftist ass his entire life. (I still gotta give him props for being a decent actor, though.) It doesn't matter to me if he wrote, financed, and directed the whole movie, and it won't bring that girl back, but maybe he'll learn a little humility and contrition while he learns to live with the blood on his hands.
Nah. He's a card-carrying azzhole. Always was, always will be.
No way in hell every actor ever handed a weapon can be expected to know the complete manual of arms for whatever may be handed them, much less its serviceability. Since Alec Baldwin killed Halyna Hutchins, multiple actors and actresses have come forward and stated that EVERY time they held a firearm on set they or the armorer pointed it at the ground and pulled the trigger six or seven times.