‘Rust’ Director Joel Souza On Why Alec Baldwin Shooting “Ruined” Him & Why Finishing Film In Halyna Hutchins’ Honor Was Important
deadline.comJoel Souza, the Rust director who Alec Baldwin shot during a rehearsal of a scene, is breaking his silence on the fatal day that took the life of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. “Things get a little fuzzy for me,” the director told Vanity Fair on the fatal shooting day. “The noise was much louder.
It felt like a horse kicked me in the shoulder or someone hit me with a bat. The whole right side of my body went numb, completely numb, but it also hurt excruciatingly at the same time.” Souza says he has “quick flashes” of the incident, adding, “There’s panic, and I’m sitting there going, ‘What…?’ My initial thought was that I was very angry.
I was furious at that moment. I remember looking up, and they were lowering Halyna to sit in front of me, and there was blood coming through her white shirt.
It felt like it just all happened so quickly.” The filmmaker also said, “When I tell someone it ruined me, I don’t mean in the sense that people might generally think.
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