The armorer RustWas Hannah Gutierrez Reed Trustworthy?
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In any case, the film of his interview recorded with the police in November 2021 and presented to the jurors of his trial on February 26, as reported by Variety, sends shivers down your spine. The young woman, who was 24 at the time, explains two astonishing facts. First, she tells where the bullets from Alec Baldwin’s gun that caused the fatal shot on the set came from, then she explains how she checks, or not, if the ammunition is blank.
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The life of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins didn’t matter much! And even if she pleads not guilty to the involuntary manslaughter with which she is charged, Hannah Gutierrez Reed cannot deny that she acted with, to say the least, great levity, in any case that is the opinion of the prosecutor, Karl Morrissey.
Hannah Gutierrez Reed told police she brought to the set of Rust a box of dummy bullets that she used on the set of Nicolas Cage’s western, The Old Way, which she had worked on shortly before. “I rummaged through a bag I had,” she said. This bag contained a pile of loose blank bullets. I checked them all and put them in two boxes… They sat in my car for two weeks. »
These are the same balls that she took out of her car for Rust, and that she would have “checked” by a particular method: shaken, the dummy balls would emit a clicking sound. Hannah Gutierrez Reed conceded that she “shakes them most of the time.” “Most of the time,” remarked the prosecutor, to emphasize the gunsmith’s negligence.
Will the jury be sensitive to the arguments of the gunsmith’s defense which implicate Seth Kenney, who supplied weapons and ammunition to the production, and will be heard next week? Case to be continued, especially for Alec Baldwin, who held the weapon and is producer of this film. The actor is due to go on trial for manslaughter in July.
