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Alec Baldwin is speaking out against allegations surrounding safety concerns on the Rust set prior to cinematographer Halyna Hutchins‘ death last month. On Tuesday, the actor took to Instagram to share several screenshots of costume designer Terese Magpale Davis lengthy statement defending the western film’s producers.
“I worked on this movie. The story being spun of us being overworked and surrounded by unsafe, chaotic conditions is bullshit,” Davis wrote, adding that there were firm safety protocols in place. “The day Halyna died we had come off a 12 hour turnaround after an 11 hour shoot day. We had (including camera) gotten off by 6:30 pm. We had just had a 56 hour weekend right before that. No one was too tired to do their jobs.”
During an on-set rehearsal in New Mexico last month, Baldwin pulled the trigger on a prop gun that unexpectedly fired a live round, killing Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza. Earlier that day, a half-dozen camera crew members walked off set to protest working conditions.
Davis said the producers utilized “daily time sheets” and had “several safety meetings,” sometimes multiple times per day. She went on to criticize crew members who staged the walkout, calling them “not heroes,” but “jerks.”
The designer also defended assistant director David Halls, who accidentally handed Baldwin a loaded weapon and told him it was safe to use moments before the accidents, according to a search warrant filed in a Santa Fe court. Deadline recently reported that Halls was previously fired from the film Freedom’s Path after a gun accidentally went off on set.
“Our AD never seemed flippant about safety,” Davis insisted. “He may have in other shows, but he wasn’t like that on ours.”
She concluded that the conversation surrounding the Rust tragedy is about “gun safety,” not working conditions. “This is about gun safety. Something we could all stand to learn a little more about so that we know if we’re seeing something a bit off,” Davis wrote. “I know that’s not as much fun as vilifying producers. Personal responsibility is the last thing anyone wants to focus on in a tragedy.”
