Halyna was so sweet to everyone she met and funny and creative in every situation. I hope Baldwin gets the book thrown at him.
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I’m sure he’ll buy his way out of it!
Def. AMD I think I read only18 months is up for grabs?
Absolute shame of the justice system. She was a mother. She had a family. I only worked with her 4 times when she was still in school at the AFI but in that time she left an impression on me. And everyone she met I imagine.
The book needs to be thrown.
Very tragic, and I agree with you.
One thing that surprised me about the Rust shooting was the expectation that gun safety was one person’s job: the armorer. She was supposed to make the guns safe, so everyone else was free to handle guns carelessly. When a gun was passed to an actor, he had no obligation to see if it was loaded, no duty to point the gun in a safe direction and keep his finger off the trigger, etc. This norm goes against everything I was taught when I first encountered firearms.
And it's absolutely not true🤷🏽
Maybe it was for that set because Baldwin was also a producer.
But every set I've been in that head a prop gun, there's a safety meeting every single day where they say the same thing.
"There's a prop gun on set today. It's always going to be empty except for ___ scene at 2pm. I'm going to walk around everyone and show you the chamber is empty"
Then they literally walk around and show you and if you have questions about anything they explain it in full detail.
You want to know why you still can't point a blank at someone? Sure. At the lunch break let's go to the firing area and I'll shoot a paper plate with a blank and you'll see stuff still gets shot out at speed.
They handle it with the actors. Show them it's empty. Or tell them this is what you've got in here. This is how you hold it. Never find in the trigger until you're shooting this is there release button this does that. They go through everything. And I'm between takes the armorer takes it back until they're ready for another take.
It sounds like normally there’s some hand-holding with the actors, but at least when an actor is handed a gun, he’s supposed to see what’s (not) in it. And he’s not supposed to hold the firearm between takes, let alone point it at someone and place his finger on the trigger, which Baldwin clearly did.
Lemme see if I can find any bts videos for you of non Baldwins talking about guns on set
https://youtube.com/shorts/UELwDUEl1Po?si=GqfQN9JYMJyyEQRO
https://youtu.be/yMgCDrgTrgM?si=S9BRoSaI0QbJJwdh
https://youtu.be/EjpKAysj0JM?si=wfwkEjKpVGYhu5-w
If you're only going to watch 1
Watch the will Smith one then realize it's a joke and watch the Clooney one but fast forward to like a third to half of the way in
I watched all of them. (I did skip over what I think were introductory remarks by John Schneider.) So I see there is a protocol (i.e., a set of habits) for handling firearms on set. At the very least, the armorer who handed the gun to the assistant director should have verified the gun was empty, and then the AD should also have done the same. Three of the videos made it sound as though the AD should have proved to Baldwin that the gun was empty, before handing it to him. The last video was ambiguous on that point. Either way, Baldwin is in trouble because he was a producer, and his set deviated from standard practices.