Dave Halls, who gave the actor the weapon involved in the death of Halyna Hutchins, had already been involved in a similar accident during a previous shoot.
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This is not the first incident in which Dave Halls is involved. The assistant director who gave Alec Baldwin the gun that killed a cinematographer on the set of the western Rust had already been fired from a previous film for an accident involving a firearm, AFP learned on Monday, October 25, from a production company.
Dave Halls was fired from filming Freedom’s Path, in 2019, after a team member was slightly injured when a weapon was accidentally fired “, a producer of the film in question told AFP. The assistant director was thus “expelled immediately” and “The production did not start filming again until Dave left the premises”.
On the set of Rust, Dave Halls had given actor Alec Baldwin a supposedly empty gun that the actor used to rehearse a scene. A shot accidentally went off, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza. The very strict rules of the film industry, however, prohibit any presence of live ammunition on a film set, precisely to avoid this type of accident.