‘Rust’ Set Footage Shows Alec Baldwin Rushing the Crew, Saying: ‘One More! Right Away! Let’s Reload!’
variety.comGene Maddaus Senior Media Writer SANTA FE, N.M. — The director called “action,” and Alec Baldwin emerged from a wooden shed and advanced toward the camera, firing shots from an old pistol.
As soon as he heard “cut,” the actor wanted to do the take again. “One more! One more! One more! Right away!” Baldwin shouted. “Let’s reload!” Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the film’s 24-year-old armorer, hurried to put more blanks into his gun.
Baldwin was visibly impatient. “Here we go! C’mon,” he said. “We should have two guns and both we’re reloading.” Gutierrez Reed is now on trial for a fatal accident that occurred later on the set of “Rust.” On Thursday morning, jurors saw outtakes from the film, in which Baldwin could be seen using his pistol to point as he gave instructions to the crew.
The videos — seen publicly for the first time — are likely to be played again at Baldwin’s manslaughter trial in July. Both he and the armorer are accused of criminal negligence in the death of the film’s cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins.
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