"A 24-year-old person shouldn't probably, with that little experience, be heading up a department with the guns and bullets," he said of Gutierrez Reed, who is the daughter of Thell Reed, a well-known Hollywood armorer. (Baldwin is also a producer on the film.) He blamed the production company for "skimping" on the indie movie. Baldwin, rehearsing for a scene, discharged the gun and a live round killed the 42-year-old director of photography. Gutierrez Reed claims she showed the gun to Halls, who, for his part, has said he didn't thoroughly inspect it before then giving it to Baldwin. Gutierrez Reed, who is 24 and served as armorer on just one other major film, loaded it with rounds from a box of dummies, but one of the rounds was apparently live ammunition. Period."Īmid the investigation, the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Department has said in court documents that the chain of command with the gun the day of Hutchins's death began with prop master Sarah Zachary taking it from a locked props truck and giving it to armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed. He said he's "been on sets for 40 years and the person that hands you the gun, the person who is responsible for the gun, is either the prop person or the armorer. They're just talking about stuff I've never heard of. "I've never heard the term 'cold gun,'" Clooney said of his years of movie-making. "I mean every time I get handed a six-gun," or a gun that holds six cartridges, "you point it at the ground and you squeeze it six times," Clooney said, noting "It's just insane" not to.Ĭlooney discussed the finger-pointing, including at first assistant director David Halls allegedly being the one to declare the gun a "cold gun" and giving to Baldwin, who considered it safe to use. They got a little tiny hole in the back somebody's the gunpowder."Ĭlooney said because of the likeness, he doesn't just inspect the gun visually. But the problem is dummies are tricky because they look like real. "Maybe Alec did that - hopefully he did do that. Everyone knows" that is the protocol to follow. He said, "Part of it is because of what happened to Brandon. "Every single take." Then, "You hand it back to the armor when you're done." "Every single time I'm handed a gun on the set - every time - they hand me a gun, I look at it, I open it, I show it to the person I'm pointing it too, I show it to the crew," Clooney said. However, he said there is a very specific protocol actors follow - similar to sentiments expressed by Matthew McConaughey. The 60-year-old actor, who said he doesn't know Baldwin very well, said he doesn't think there was "any intent by anybody to do anything wrong," describing it all as "a terrible accident." Clooney said the deaths of actors Brandon Lee in 1993 and Jon-Erik Hexum in 1984 - who were both friends - made gun safety on the set of the utmost importance, so he's in disbelief over what transpired with Rust. On the WTF With Marc Maron podcast, the Oscar-winning actor weighed in on last month's movie set disaster in which a gun discharged by Alec Baldwin shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza. George Clooney calls the fatal shooting on the set of Rust "infuriating" and "insane."
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