David Halls says himself Monday “shocked and sad” after the death of the director of photography for the western.
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His point of view had not yet been made known. The assistant director who gave actor Alec Baldwin the loaded gun that killed a filmmaker on the set of the film “Rust” spoke on Monday, November 1 for the first time since the drama.
In a press release to New York Post (in English), David Halls says to himself “shocked and sad” after the death of the director of photography for the western, Halyna Hutchins, but he does not comment on the drama or its role. “Halyna Hutchins was not only one of the most talented people I have worked with, she was also a friend”, he writes.
“I hope that this tragedy will encourage the (film) industry to review its values and practices” to prevent such a tragedy from happening again, adds David Halls. With the gunsmith Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, David Halls was in charge of the weapons on the set of “Rust” and had to make sure that they were indeed harmless before putting them on the set. According to the first statements of the police officers, the assistant director told them that he “should have checked” that all the cartridges in the revolver used by Alec Baldwin to rehearse a scene were fictitious but that he “didn’t do it”.