‘Rust’ taking pictures incident: Alec Baldwin slams George Clooney on remarks over gun security

By ANI

WASHINGTON: Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin in his latest first TV interview because the deadly ‘Rust’ taking pictures incident addressed the feedback made by fellow actor George Clooney relating to gun security on movie units.

According to Fox News, the 63-year-old actor informed the interviewer, George Stephanopoulos, that any outdoors feedback made weren’t going to assist the scenario. “How do you respond to actors like George Clooney who say that every time they were handed a gun, they checked it themselves?” Baldwin was requested.

The actor mentioned, “Well, there were a lot of people who felt it necessary to contribute some comment to the situation, which really didn’t help the situation. At all.”

“If your protocol is you check the gun every time, well, good for you. I’ve probably handled weapons as much as any other actor in films with an average career. Again, shooting or being shot by someone. And in that time, I had a protocol and it never let me down,” continued Baldwin.

Clooney had mentioned on the podcast ‘WTF with Marc Maron’ that he all the time personally checks a weapon after somebody fingers it to him on a set.

The ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ actor mirrored, “I’ve been on sets for 40 years and the person that hands you the gun, the person that is responsible for the gun is either the prop or the armorer, period. Now every single time I’m handed a gun on the set, every time they hand me a gun I look at it, I open it. I show it to the person I’m pointing it to, I show it to the crew.”

“Every single take you had to back to the armorer when you’re done… You do it again and part of it is because of what happened to Brandon [Lee], everyone does it. Everybody knows and maybe Alec did that, hopefully he did do that,” he added.

Baldwin defined that when he was a younger actor a prop particular person informed him to not manipulate a weapon earlier than a scene. Reasoning on the topic Baldwin mentioned, “When that person who is charged with that job handed me the weapon, I trusted them. And I never had a problem.”

Stephanopoulos then questioned the Emmy-winner what duty the actor has on the set to make sure security. “I guess that’s a tough question because the actor’s responsibility going this day forward is very different than it was the day before that,” Baldwin mirrored, including, “First of all I can’t imagine that I’d ever do a movie that had a gun in it again. The actor’s responsibility is to do what the prop armorer tells them to do.”

Baldwin mentioned he was handed the gun that discharged and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza by the movie’s assistant director Dave Halls who informed him the gun was “cold” that means unloaded. The gun was actually loaded with an actual bullet which ought to have by no means been on set.

The producer clarified he by no means pulled the gun’s set off. He was holding the gun to line up a shot as directed by Hutchins to do when Baldwin “let go of the hammer” and the gun went off.

In an announcement via her lawyer obtained by Fox News, the movie’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed mentioned that she would not understand how a reside spherical was loaded into the gun. “Never in a million years did Hannah think that live rounds could have been in the ‘dummy’ round box. Who put those in there and why is the central question,” one among her attorneys, Jason Bowles, mentioned in an announcement.

“Hannah was incredibly safety conscious and took her job very seriously from the moment she started on October 4. She did firearms training for the actors as well as Mr. Baldwin, she fought for more training days and she regularly emphasized to never point a firearm at a person,” Bowles added, as per Fox News.