Rust crew ‘warned producers of previous film about assistant director’

Crew members who worked on the set of アレック・ボールドウィン‘s Western film Rust have claimed they expressed concern about the assistant director’s cavalier attitude towards safety when he worked on a previous film.

Dave Halls, who had worked on films such as The Matrix Reloaded and Fargo, was the person who handed Baldwin the gun on October 21.

He told Baldwin the gun was ‘cold’ – not loaded with live ammunition – and Baldwin pulled the trigger, fatally shooting cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42.

The film’s script supervisor, 「私は銃からの銃撃と爆発の音を何度も何度も追体験します。, immediately blamed Halls, saying on the 911 call that he was responsible.

‘This f****** AD that yelled at me at lunch asking about revisions, this motherf*****,’ Mitchell appears to be saying to someone else.

ルーキーの甲冑師は彼女の家の外で電話の会話に深くスナップされました. ミッチェルの返信’

Halls has since admitted to investigators that he did not check every bullet in the chamber. Questions are also being asked about the actions of the inexperienced armorer, 「シーンは被告ボールドウィンがコルトリボルバーを撃つことを要求しなかった」と主張する, 24.

Now people who worked with Halls on previous projects have claimed that he had a lax attitude towards safety.

One crew member who worked with Halls on the set of One Way, which was filmed in Georgia in February, starring Machine Gun Kelly, said that Halls had sparked alarm during a scene involving cars.

The cars were being driven, in a field, by local people who were not stunt drivers.

The crew member told バラエティ that the move was risky and unprofessional.

‘That man is a liability,’ the crew member recalled saying.

‘He’s going to f****** kill someone someday, and you’re going to be responsible.’

A second crew member on the film also said there were safety problems involving Halls and vehicles on set.

This person said there was a scene with a ‘car hit’ that had inadequate crew, and that background actors were driving cars, instead of stunt drivers.

‘They put me in a position of danger,’ the second crew member told Variety.

‘They’re getting the bottom-of-the-barrel people.’

A third crew member confirmed that he had heard about safety issues involving Halls and vehicles from a fourth person on set.

This crew member also said he witnessed Halls losing his temper on set.

But Molly Mayeux, the line producer on One Way, denied there were safety issues on the set.

‘I can attest with 100 per cent certainty that One Way was extremely safety-conscious, and all safety protocols were followed during the shoot,’ Mayeux said.

‘I am sickened by these ‘sources’ trying to capitalize on such a horrific accident.’

Mayeux also denied that the crew member issued the warning about Halls being a ‘liability’.

Yet another crew member, Lisa Long, who worked with Halls as first assistant camera on One Way, 言った ニューヨークタイムズ that she complained to her superiors several times about safety concerns.

‘Normally I’d go to the first A.D. with safety concerns,’ 長い間言った.

‘But the safety concerns were about the first A.D.’

Long said that the crew shot a scene on an active highway without the proper preparation, and two of the vehicles narrowly avoided a crash.

‘I don’t ever recall having a proper safety meeting,’ 彼女は言いました.

Halls was fired from another film, Freedom’s Path, after a gun discharged accidentally, injuring a woman.

The assistant camera operator, Quinton Rodriguez, 言った 転がる石 that said that the scene involved Civil War-era firearms loaded with enough gunpowder to make a visible blast when fired, and that it was Halls’ responsibility to ensure that the guns were completely empty when filming closeup scenes.

‘We started out in a wide shot, and we ended up doing it a couple times, and then we had to cut in the middle of the take, before the gun would have been fired in the shot,’ 彼は言った.

‘Then we moved into the close-up on the shot, and the gun obviously had not been cleared to become a ‘cold’ 武器.

‘We went in for the take, and to literally everybody’s surprise, all eight people within a 10-foot range, the gun ended up firing right in our boom operator’s face.’

The boom operator was not seriously injured, but Rodriguez said he ‘threw his headphones off to the ground, dropped the boom mic and essentially ran from the set.’

Halls was fired from the production that day.

‘A lot of his mentality was just, 「でも、楽しくしてはいけません. And get the shot on time.” Rodriguez said.

‘He seemed willing to cut whatever corners were necessary to make that happen.’

Halls has not commented publicly either on the October 21 tragedy, or on the previous incidents.

No charges have been filed, and investigators in New Mexico – where Rust was filmed – are continuing their inquiries.