A week after a technician's complaint for negligence on the set of Rust, another member of the crew files a complaint, this time against actor Alec Baldwin, who killed the director of photography on October 21. Halyna Hutchins. The other producers of the feature film are also targeted. Mamie Mitchell, employed as a scriptwriter on the set of the western, accuses Baldwin of having "played Russian roulette" when he handled a weapon without respecting the safety rules in force in the film industry. Represented by Gloria Allred, the tomboy of Bill Crosby and Chris Brown, Mamie Mitchell claims to have been injured by the shooting and files a complaint for assault and emotional distress.
“It was discussed that there would be (three) tight camera shots when filming resumed” after the lunch break, says the complaint, says the complaint, filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court.
"One camera shot would be centered on Defender Baldwin's eyes, another on a bloodstain on Defender Baldwin's shoulder, and the third on Defender Baldwin's torso as he got his hands on the holster and withdrew the weapon.
There was nothing in the script to mention that the gun had been unloaded by Defender Baldwin or anyone else, ”the complaint says, as cited by The Hollywood Reporter.
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She defends that Alec Baldwin, used to filming, should have checked if the gun was loaded, regardless of what had been said to him. Handing him the gun he had taken from a cart outside the wooden chapel where the filming was to take place, assistant director David Halls shouted "cold weapon". She alleges that Baldwin is familiar enough with security protocols in the film industry to know that the gunsmith is supposed to demonstrate to an actor that the gun chambers are empty. "Mr. Baldwin cannot hide behind the deputy director to try to excuse the fact that he did not check the weapon himself," she accuses.
And no rehearsal had been announced, she criticizes again, a way of saying that, according to her, Alec Baldwin did not have to unload the pistol when he did.
"Not a simple negligence"
After the gunshot, she says she heard a loud ringing in her ears and feared for her life.
She had called for help.
The incident claimed the life of Halyna Hutchins, who was stabbed by the bullet that seriously injured director Joel Souza.
"The events leading up to the triggering of a loaded gun by Mr. Baldwin were not mere negligence," scriptwriter's lawyer Gloria Allred said at a press conference in Los Angeles.
"On the contrary, from our point of view, Mr. Baldwin chose to play Russian roulette when he actuated a weapon without having checked it and without the gunsmith having done so in his presence", argues l 'lawyer.
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The complaint also targets David Halls and the shooting gunsmith, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who was responsible for the firearms used by the crew.
The 24-year-old has repeatedly claimed that she was unaware of the presence of live ammunition on the set.
The protocols in the cinema are strict and the producers, reproaches Mamie Mitchell in her complaint, "intended to cut short what was derisively regarded as the common red tape in Hollywood-based productions by making part of the device work. from Rust in Georgia and New Mexico ”.
It was reported by media that the gun that killed Halyna Hutchins was used just hours before the fatal shot by members of the team "to pass the time" by shooting cans of beer.
The searches carried out at the ranch of Bonanza Creek (New Mexico), the location of the filming, had resulted in the seizure of 500 ammunition.
