Following Halyna Hutchins’ death, accidentally killed by the actor with a weapon supposed to be loaded with white, testimonials denounce serious malfunctions on the tray.
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Amateurism, End Economies, Social Conflict: Five days after the death of the Director of Photography Halyna Hutchins, Thursday, October 21, killed by an accidental shot at the Ranch of Bonanza Creek near Santa Fe (New Mexico ), the details started filtering on the difficulties of production. The result of autopsy and the analysis of the pistol, which was supposed to draw bullets with white, having not yet been made public, the mystery remains whole on the central question of the drama: which contained the weapon used by the Actor Alec Baldwin in the scene that was fatal to the young woman and in which director Joel Souza was injured in the shoulder? On the other hand, the testimonies of the protagonists, collected by the investigators and whose press was aware, describe a chaotic turning. The director assistant had already been dismissed from a previous production, in 2019, for non-compliance with the safety rules after an incident with a firearm.
The filming of the Film Rust was in his twelfth day on the twenty-one planned. Tragic coincidence, Western tells the story of an accidental homicide. Alec Baldwin plays the role of a notorious off-law who resumes service when his 13-year-old grandson is threatened with being hanged after you unintentionally killed a Kansas ransick. Harland Rust, the grandfather, frees the boy from the prison and both leave on the run, pursued by sheriffs and head hunters.
In June, the actor had explained that he had himself had the idea of the scenario during a conversation with Joel Souza, after wondering who had been the youngest hanged in the history of Wild West. Figure popular in the United States – it is he who has played for four years Donald Trump’s role in the satirday night live “- Baldwin is not only the film star but also one of the producers , which could argue to have to answer some of the negligence appeared on the filming.
“Not quite ready”
The drama took place in the afternoon of Wednesday, October 20, during a scene illustrating an exchange of shots at the exit of a church. Harland, Alias Baldwin, was supposed to reverse while leaving the chapel. He repeated how to clear the Holster pistol. He had already devised a first time, without any problem. In the second trial, a projectile is out and Halyna Hutchins, who watched the angle of the camera, was reached near the shoulder. Transported to helicopter, she was declared dead upon her arrival at the hospital. The director, Joel Souza, slightly touched, was hospitalized for twenty-four hours.
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