‘Rust’ director describes moment he was shot by Alec Baldwin at weapons supervisor’s trial
nme.comRust has recalled the moment he was shot by Alec Baldwin with a prop gun in court at the trial of the film’s weapons supervisor.Joel Souza was hospitalised after he was hit by the same bullet that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set in Santa Fe in October 2021.
He did not press any legal charges.Weapons supervisor Hannah Gutierrez-Reed is on trial charged with involuntary manslaughter, to which she is pleading not guilty.
Baldwin will be on trial for the same charges in July and has also plead his innocence, even claiming he never pulled the trigger.Souza testified at the trial on Friday (March 1) and said that he moved behind Hutchins to get a closer look at the camera angle, but he never saw the gun that shot him.“I got up behind her just to try to see on the monitor and there was an incredibly loud bang,” he told the court. “This was deafening.”He saw Gutierrez-Reed after he was shot, and she purportedly said to him: “I’m sorry.
I’m sorry Joel.”“And I remember somebody just screaming at her and they just ushered her out,” he continued.In 2021, not long after the incident, Souza said in a new affidavit obtained by The New York Times, that he had been told the gun was safe and was described as a “cold gun” in safety announcements.
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