Alec Baldwin shooting – latest: Rust assistant director was fired from movie in 2019 following a gun incident – The Independent

Prop master Neal W Zoromski said he was offered the Alec Baldwin film but turned it down because it was “an accident waiting to happen”.

Mr Zoromski, who has worked in Hollywood for 30 years, told the The Los Angeles Times he was approached by production managers to work as a prop master on Rust.

However, after four days of internal discussions, Mr Zoromski, whose previous film credits included Thank You For Smoking and The Day After Tomorrow, said he got a “bad feeling”.

ABC’s TV series The Rookie has introduced a new policy that will ban the use of “live” guns on set.

This decision comes after the fatal shooting that resulted in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on Rust’s set in New Mexico.

The Rookie’s showrunner Alexi Hawley sent a letter to the cast and crew explaining the change.

“It was an easy decision to make given the recent tragedy, and I think every production should consider making it,” Hawley said in a statement, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter.

He added: “It is now policy on The Rookie that all gunfire on set will be Air Soft guns with CG muzzle flashes added in post.”

“The safety our cast and crew is too important. Any risk is too much risk,” the showrunner said.

A Hollywood-based prop master said he was offered to work on Alec Baldwin’s film Rust but turned it down because it was “an accident waiting to happen.”

Neal W Zoromski, who has three decades of experience working in the industry, told the The Los Angeles Times that he was approached by Rust production managers to work as a prop master for the forthcoming Western.

However, after four days of internal discussions, Zoromski said he got a “bad feeling.”

Based on his conversations, Zoromski explained that the team was highly focused on saving money, even at the cost of compromising set safety protocols.

Additionally, he said his questions were dismissed by the film’s managers.

“After I pressed ‘send’ on that last email, I felt, in the pit of my stomach that is an accident waiting to happen,” Zoromski said.

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Rust assistant director Dave Halls, who handed Alec Baldwin the gun that killed Halyna Hutchins, was fired from a movie in 2019 following an accident involving a gun, according to a producer.

The producer, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Hollywood Reporter that “a crew member incurred a minor and temporary injury when a gun was unexpectedly discharged” on Freedom’s Path film set.

“Our condolences go out to everyone affected by the recent tragic event in New Mexico,” the producer added.

Hailey Bieber has spoken out about the incident that occurred on her uncle Alec Baldwin’s film set on Thursday (21 October).

The 24-year-old model wrote that she was “heartbroken for everyone involved” on one of her Instagram story.

“Sending all my love to the family of Halyna Hutchins. This is a truly unimaginable and devastating tragedy,” she wrote. “My thoughts are also with Joel Souza as he recovers.”

A lot of new information has come out over the past five days about the tragic Rust accident, from how Alec Baldwin reacted to who handed him the gun. Here’s what we know so far:

The tragic accidental shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie Rust is not the first firearms-related incident for the production’s armourer.

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, 24, was hired to work as the armourer on the Alec Baldwin Western. The Daily Beast reported on Saturday that Ms Gutierrez-Reed was also the armourer on another film set where a firearms mishap shut down production. During work on the upcoming Nicholas Cage film The Old Way, the woman allegedly gave a gun to an 11-year-old actor without properly inspecting it for safety.

“She was a bit careless with the guns, waving it around every now and again,” an anonymous crew member told the site. “There were a couple times she was loading the blanks and doing it in a fashion that we thought was unsafe.”

A film set medic told police she was baffled when she heard a loud gunshot on the set of Rust, documents show.

“Are we rehearsing?” Cherlyn Schaefer asked, according to an injury report reviewed by the Wall Street Journal. “Because ‘fire in the hole’ was not called.”

Minutes later, Ms Schaefer was giving medical oxygen to cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who had just been shot in the abdomen.

The final Instagram posts of Halyna Hutchins, the film Rust’s director of photography, show how happy she was on the set of the film.

“One of the perks of shooting a western is you get to ride horses on your day off,” Ms Hutchins captioned a video on 19 October, adding a smiley face.