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First Assistant Director David Halls, who handed Alec Baldwin the prop gun that accidentally killed Halyna Hutchins on the set of the western film Rust, was allegedly involved in a 74-year-old actress’ on-set injury in 2019.
Crew members who previously worked with Halls on the film Freedom’s Path told Rolling Stone that the assistant director refused to provide 74-year-old actress Carol Sutton with a crash pad for a scene that involved her character falling to her knees after learning about another character’s death. She later fell and was injured.
“I remember turning to Dave and I was like, ‘Dave, should we get her a crash pad? We should get her a crash pad,'” assistant camera operator Quinton Rodriguez said. “He was like, ‘NO, she’s not going to fall all the way.’ So we had like a furniture pad instead. And she ended up fully falling over and injuring herself. A furniture pad is not a pad that you would want to fall on. You should have a crash pad. We had stunts on set. It would have taken 60 seconds.”
Deadline previously reported that Halls was ultimately removed and fired from Freedom’s Path after a crew member incurred a “minor and temporary injury when a gun was unexpectedly discharged.”
Rodriguez provided Rolling Stone with more information about the incident, saying that the scene involved Civil War-era firearms loaded with enough gunpowder to produce a visible blast when fired. Hall was in charge of ensuring that the guns were completely empty for close-up shots.
“We moved into the close-up on the shot, and the gun obviously had not been cleared to become a ‘cold’ weapon,” he said. “We went in for the take, and to literally everybody’s surprise, all eight people within a 10-foot range, the gun ended up firing right in our boom operator’s face.”
Santa Fe police are currently investigating the chain of events that led to Hutchins’ death, and no charges have been filed as of publication. The Associated Press reports that Halls accidentally handed Baldwin a loaded weapon during a Rust rehearsal and told him it was safe to use just before the shooting, court records released last Friday show.
