Shock, rage and disbelief at the fatal shot on set by Alec Baldwin

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  • How could it happen? A question that is repeated with sadness and disbelief after the actor accidentally killed the director of photography Halyna Hutchins when shooting a prop gun in a scene

¿How could it happen? The question is repeated incessantly after the tragedy happened on thursday in the filming in western New Mexico ‘Rust‘when actor Alex Baldwin accidentally killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza by shooting a prop gun in one scene. And that question is repeated with sadness and dismay, but also with disbelief, outrage, rage and even “fury & rdquor ;. And answers are required.

No one has been arrested or charges filed according to the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office leading the investigation, which has also reported that it will possibly not offer updates on the progress of these investigations until the next week. And there is more what is not known than what is known.

It is unknown, for example, what weapon type was used and what type of ammunitionAlthough according to the union that groups props workers, that ammunition was real and not blank. That union, in an email to its affiliates this Friday, has also assured that the team of that department in ‘Rust’ was made up of local personnel and that its top manager was not unionized.

It is also not known whether in ‘Rust’, which deals with the story of an outlaw (Baldwin) who helps his two orphaned grandchildren to escape after the 13-year-old is sentenced to hang for accidentally killing a rancher, was filming a scene or rehearsing, it is unknown what security protocols for handling weapons they were used on the set or if there was a shot that hit Hutchins and Souza (who was discharged from the hospital that same Thursday) or several shots.

In any case, the accident and especially the death of Hutchins, 42, have caused commotion and messages of condolence have been repeated mourning his death and praising the “brilliant talent & rdquor; of the director of photography, originally from Ukraine and who in 2019 was branded by the American Cinematographer magazine as “rising star & rdquor;.

Baldwin statement

Except for the family and loved ones, no one touches the trauma more intensely than Baldwin, who was photographed on Thursday shocked at the gates of the police facilities, where he went voluntarily to declare, and this Friday has issued a release through his foundation’s Twitter account.

“There are no words to express my shock and sadness for the tragic accident of Halyna Hutchins, a wife, mother and admired colleague of ours. Am fully cooperating with the police investigation to address how this tragedy happened & rdquor ;, has written the actor, who was also a producer of ‘Rust’. “I am in contact with her husband, offering my support to him and his family. I have the broken heart for her husband, her son and everyone who knew and loved Halyna & rdquor ;.

Sadness and fury

The episode, the latest in an overly long list of fatal accidents on set, has also unleashed the indignation. Adam Egypt Mortimer, the director who worked with Hutchins on ‘Archenemy’, has confessed “sad and angry because this could happen in a shoot & rdquor ;. The family of Brandon Lee, the son of Bruce Lee who died on the set of The Crow in 1993 due to another incident involving a firearm, has written on the actor’s Twitter account: “No one should die from a gun on a shoot cinema. Point & rdquor ;.

Hutchins’ professional colleagues such as cinematographers Elle Schneider and Rachel Morrison have stepped up the criticism. “I want answers& rdquor;, said Schneider, while the person in charge of the image of ‘Black Panther’ has spoken of a “unnecessary and completely preventable loss& rdquor; and has been convinced “without any doubt that this tragedy could and should have been avoided”.

Morrison has also entered his Instagram account in a debate that has also been reactivated by the tragedy: that of the use of weapons that, despite being considered prop, they can be weapons real and the use of bullets of blank, who have already had lethal effects in other shootings. “There is no reason to continue using blank bullets when cIt costs 50 cents to add gun fire in post-production and even less reason to use them in a daytime scene when there is little or no interactive light & rdquor;, Morrison has written. The fatal accident on the set of ‘Rust’ occurred at noon.

Specialists in weapons training who have worked on the set have claimed in the past that the use of real weapons with blank ammunition allows various effects that cannot be reproduced with visual or computer-generated effects in post-production but others consider it “a unnecessary risk& rdquor ;, as ‘Mare of Easttown’ director Craig Zobel, who used digital effects on all of the gun scenes in the miniseries, “Props weapons are weapons& rdquor ;, screenwriter David Slack has also tweeted. “The blank bullets have gunpowder real, they can hurt or kill, and they have & rdquor ;.

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