Hollywood continues in shock after the accident that occurred last Thursday during the filming of ‘Rust‘, when Alec baldwin accidentally killed the cinematographer of the film, Halyna hutchins. A tragic event that occurred when the actor fired a bullet that should have been a blank.
The investigation of the events continues and after the accident a series of accusations from the production team from the film that collects ‘El País’. The information that has transpired reveals that days before a similar incident would have already occurred, when Baldwin’s doppelganger fired twice with weapons that were supposed to be unloaded, though then he was lucky and nobody was hurt.
Alec Baldwin after the accident that ended the life of Halyna Hutchins.
It has also been revealed that the equipment was subjected to long working hours, up to 13 hours, that security protocols were violated and that, in general, the conditions in which this western film was being produced were not good. Late payments, various logistics problems… A whole series of problems that are being known now, after the terrible accident from which the director of the film was also injured, Joel souza.
On the same day of the accident, six workers left the filming set to protest the working conditions
In fact, there were several workers who had protested for this reason and, according to sources from the newspaper ‘Los Angeles Times’, up to half a dozen assistants and camera operators left the set in protest on the same day of the fatal accident.
Specifically, this group of workers left the study a few hours before the accident and were replaced by personnel who were not attached to any professional union. Three unidentified employees told the aforementioned media that a group of technicians complained because there was “a very serious lack of security measures” on the set.
More on the gun Baldwin fired
On the other hand, an affidavit that would be in the hands of the local police indicates that the person in charge of verifying that the three firearms that were used were correctly he was an assistant director of the film. According to the information available to the Santa Fe (New Mexico) sheriff’s office, this person checked that there were no real bullets in the chamber of the pistols and he confirmed it by shouting: “Cold weapon!”.
It was the same person who handed the gun to Baldwin, who accidentally shot Hutchins to death when she I was squatting in front of a monitor preparing the shot. After the shot, the veteran actor, who still did not know the damage caused, began to shout that how was it possible that the weapon was loaded with real bullets. “In all my career years I have never been handed a hot gun!”, The interpreter shouted, according to what a witness told ‘Showbiz 411’.
On the same day of the accident, six workers left the filming set to protest the working conditions.
The producer has also spoken
Given this information that has come out about the conditions in which the production was being carried out, the producer has spoken and assured that it had not been informed of all these complaints: “Although we were not officially advised of any weapons or safety related complaints, we will conduct an internal investigation while production is on hold.“.
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