damnit! Came here to say that. I've been freaking out my family members with texts of "alec baldwin shot and killed someone"
How were there actual live rounds on the set? I know blanks have killed people before close up. But with distance?
And that, kids, is why you follow basic firearm safety even if you think the gun isn't loaded or is fake.
Yeah, Lee’s situation involved a real round being left in the gun. It was all kinds of Armorer negligence.
That was such a sad disaster. The actor who played “Fun Boy” shot him, and ended up in a deep depression and died early from it. Jon-Erik Hexum was self-carelessness. He shot himself in the head with a blank while joking around not knowing how dangerous they were at…. point-blank.
Even more, Lee's sister still runs Brandon's Twitter and is now speaking out about this shooting as Brandon. https://twitter.com/brandonblee?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author
I remember that we did a little experiment in the office when people had the messenger and/or the facebook application open (this was before granular permissions and indicators on phones), we purposefully mentioned "chainsaws", "trees", and "yardwork" a couple of times an hour for a day. Everyone was disappointed because everyone wasn't flooded with chainsaw ads. That was unless you owned a house.
So it turns out that it was a real live round in the gun. And that the prop master on set was not part of the union(local 44). https://www.indiewire.com/2021/10/a...apher-wounds-director-on-rust-set-1234673555/
You think about all the nightmares an actor like Baldwin has lived through....this has to be the worst. What a fucking tragedy.
I saw someone on Reddit claiming to be an armorer in the film industry look up the job posting for the movie, and apparently it was half-price to what the standard was, so he wasn't surprised that it was a shitty armorer. Totally uncorroborated Reddit shit, but it kind of adds up.
So much fucking irony... the story is about a kid who's up for an accidental homicide.... Baldwin has started/funded/joined an Anti-NRA foundation... https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/apr/20/nra-alec-baldwin-amy-schumer-join-anti-nora-group
I still don't understand why he was pointing and firing at the DP or Director, instead of another actor. Was it supposed to be like he was firing towards the camera, maybe?
I saw a separate post on Reddit that even in movie productions with “fake” guns, you’re still supposed to practice gun safety, such as not actually pointing it at someone.