TIME. COURT RECORDS SHOW THIS 24 YEAR OLD WOMAN WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR HANDLING THE FIREARMS ON THE S ET OF RUST. I THINK THE BEST PART ABOUT MY JOB IS JUST SHOWING PEOPLE WHO ARE NOALLYRM KIND OF FREAKED OUT BY GUNS. HOW SAFE THEY CAN BE AND HOW THEY’RE NOT REALLY PROBLEMATIC UNLESS PUT IN THE WRONG HANDS. THAT’SER H SPEAKING ON THE PODCAST VOICES FROM THE WEST LAST MONTH DURING THE HOUR-LONG INTERVIEW. SHE SDAI SHE JUST WORKED HER FIRST JOB AS A MOVIE ARMOR FOR A NICHOLAS CEAG FILM AN ARMOR IS RESPONSIBLE FOR LOADING AND CHECKING FIREARMS ON MIEOV SSET IN THAT PODCAST GUTIERREZ REID ALSO SAID QUOTE, YOU KNOW, I WAS REALLYER NVOUS ABOUT IT AT FIRST AND I ALMOST DIDN’T TAKE THE JOB BECAUSE I WASN’T SURE IF IAS W READY, BUT DOING IT LIKE IT WENT REALLY SMOOTHLY A MONTH LATER. SHE WAS ON THE SET OF RUST WHEN ACCORDING TO COURT DOCUMENTS. SHE LAID THREE HANDGUNS ON A TABLE. EON OF THEM WAS PICKED UP BY ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, DAVE HALLS WHO TNHE HANDED IT TO ACTOR ALEC BALDWIN MOMENTS LATER BALDWIN. THERE'’ A SHOT KILLING CINEMATOGRAPHER HELENA HUTCHINS AND WOUNDING DIRECTOR JOEL SOUSA. WHEN ASKED ABOUT WORKING WITH GUNS ON SET DURING HER PREVIOUS FILM GUTIERREZ. REED SAID A LOT OF ACT HAVEN’T WORKED WITH THEM THEY HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ACTING AND NOT ABOUT LOADING THE GUN AND EVERYTHING. SO THAT’S WHERE TO MAKE IT SAFE IF PEOPLE ARE PROFICIENT WITH THEIR OWN GUNS. I SLLTI OWE THEM. ANYWAYS COURT RECORDS SHOW SUSA TOLD INVESTIGATORS. THERE SHOULD NOT HAV BEEEN ANY LIVE AMMO ON THE SET AND THAT THE FIREARMS SHOULD HAVE BEEN CHECKED BY HALLS AND REED BEFORE IT WAS GIVEN TO BALDWIN. IT’S NOT AN ACTION 7 NEWS AT 10 INVESTIGATORS NOTED IN A SEARCH WARRANT. THERE WAS AT LEAST ONE OTHER PRECAUTI
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Updated: 9:11 PM CDT Oct 27, 2021
Court records show a 24-year-old woman was responsible for handling the firearms on the set of 'Rust' when the film’s cinemaphotographer was fatally shot and the director was seriously injured by a gun being held by actor Alec Baldwin."I think the best part about my job is just showing people who are normally kind of freaked out by guns, like, how safe they can be and how they're not really problematic unless put in the wrong hands,” Hannah Gutierrez Reed said in a podcast a month before the shooting.During that hour-long interview on Arizona-based "Voices of the West," Reed said she just worked her first job as a movie armorer for a Nicolas Cage film. An armorer is responsible for loading and checking firearms on movie sets."You know, I was really nervous about it at first, and I almost didn't take the job because I wasn't sure if I was ready," she said about the Cage film. "But doing it, like, it went really smoothly."A month later she was on the set of "Rust" when — according to court documents — she laid three handguns on a table. One of them was picked up by assistant director Dave Halls who then handed it to actor Alec Baldwin. Moments later, Baldwin fires a shot killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza."A lot of actors haven't worked with them (guns)," Hutchins told the podcast hosts. "They have to worry about acting and not about loading the gun and everything, so that's where... To make it safe, if people are proficient with their own guns, I still load them anyways."Court records show Souza told investigators that there should not have been any live ammo on the set and that the firearm should have been checked by Halls and Reed before it was given to Baldwin.Watch the video above for the full story.
Court records show a 24-year-old woman was responsible for handling the firearms on the set of 'Rust' when the film’s cinemaphotographer was fatally shot and the director was seriously injured by a gun being held by actor Alec Baldwin.
"I think the best part about my job is just showing people who are normally kind of freaked out by guns, like, how safe they can be and how they're not really problematic unless put in the wrong hands,” Hannah Gutierrez Reed said in a podcast a month before the shooting.
During that hour-long interview on Arizona-based "Voices of the West," Reed said she just worked her first job as a movie armorer for a Nicolas Cage film. An armorer is responsible for loading and checking firearms on movie sets.
"You know, I was really nervous about it at first, and I almost didn't take the job because I wasn't sure if I was ready," she said about the Cage film. "But doing it, like, it went really smoothly."
A month later she was on the set of "Rust" when — according to court documents — she laid three handguns on a table. One of them was picked up by assistant director Dave Halls who then handed it to actor Alec Baldwin. Moments later, Baldwin fires a shot killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza.
"A lot of actors haven't worked with them (guns)," Hutchins told the podcast hosts. "They have to worry about acting and not about loading the gun and everything, so that's where... To make it safe, if people are proficient with their own guns, I still load them anyways."
Court records show Souza told investigators that there should not have been any live ammo on the set and that the firearm should have been checked by Halls and Reed before it was given to Baldwin.
Watch the video above for the full story.
