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Today, Alec Baldwin took to social media to advocate for police presence on movie productions that use guns, “fake or otherwise,” following the prop firearms accident that led to cinematographer Halyna Hutchins’ death on the set of the western film Rust.
“Every film/TV set that uses guns, fake or otherwise, should have a police officer on set, hired by the production, to specifically monitor weapons safety,” Baldwin wrote in a message shared on his social media accounts.
Back in October, Baldwin pulled the trigger on an on-set prop gun that unexpectedly fired a live round, killing Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza. Earlier that same day, a half-dozen camera crew members walked off set to protest working conditions. Last week, the actor took to Instagram to share several screenshots of Rust costume designer Terese Magpole Davis’ statement calling on set safety concerns “bullshit.”
In the lengthy statement, Davis called the crew members who staged the walkout “not heroes,” but “jerks,” and defended assistant director David Halls (who accidentally handed Baldwin a loaded weapon before the accident, according to a search warrant filed in a Santa Fe court).
Traditionally, the responsibility of overseeing weapon use on set falls on the production’s armorer. Last week, attorneys representing Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed claimed that the live bullet in the firearm that killed Hutchins was the result of “sabotage,” referring to the crew members who staged the walkout.
“We have a time frame between 11 [a.m.] and 1 [p.m.], approximately, that day, in which the firearms at times were unattended, so there was an opportunity to tamper with the scene,” Gutierrez-Reed’s attorney Jason Bowles said during an appearance on Today.
