Alec Baldwin's Tragic Shooting: Evidence Reveals Problematic Conduct by Assistant Director - Walla! culture

2021-10-24T06:59:33.508Z

Maggie Gol, a special effects technician, revealed in an interview with NBC that Dave Holes, the assistant director in the film in which star Alec Baldwin shot the photographer to death, exhibited unsafe behavior. Israeli photographer Avner Meyer, who worked with the deceased, told Golan Yokfaz and Anat Davidov on 103FM: "There is criminal negligence here"

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Alec Baldwin's Tragic Shooting: Evidence Reveals Problematic Conduct by Assistant Director

Israeli photographer Avner Meyer, who worked with the deceased, told Golan Yokfaz and Anat Davidov on 103FM: "There is criminal negligence here"

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The late photographer Halina Hutchins on the set of the film "Archenemy", December 2019 (Photo: AP, Jack Caswell via AP)

Avner Meyer, a photographer who worked with Halina Hutchins who was shot to death, told Golan Yokfaz and Anat Davidov on 103FM about her relationship with her: "We studied photography together. She was a very charismatic, kind and pleasant girl. She was always very much loved by everyone, everyone loved her "The accommodation was adventurous."

"I heard about it a bit after it happened from the social and news networks. There is criminal and inconceivable negligence here. These are things that should stop happening in American movies. "We do not know if it was a live ball or an idle ball. There is a leak here on an unreasonable scale," he said.

"Idle bullets can also do damage, I do not know what the process is and I do not know if we will really know. I realized that the whole team left and the accommodation was left with a less professional team. It is an unnecessary and stupid death and it must not happen," Meyer added.

"As a photographer, I hope this will raise the serious problems that exist in this industry. It's a great movie for the night, Alec is a great actor. We are willing to commit suicide for the movie, literally. Tired people make mistakes, there is a lot of heavy equipment we deal with and there is a lot of potential. For accidents, "he concluded.

Alec Baldwin's tragic shooting was preceded by two more cases a week earlier

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(Photo: AP, AP Photo / Seth Wenig, File)

The New York Times revealed yesterday that the shooting of Alec Baldwin, who accidentally killed cameraman Halina Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza in the shoulder on the set of the movie "Rust," preceded at least two previous cases of live shooting. According to three former employees of the film, the two incidents occurred on the same day, Saturday, October 16, six days before it happened again and claimed Hutchins' life. Employees complained about the poor safety in the ears of the person in charge of the issue, but there was no improvement.

The three are part of a group of workers who left the set in protest of safety conditions, just hours before Hutchins' death Friday morning, the Los Angeles Times and Deadline Hollywood reported. Both sites quoted several crew members and production associates as saying that six or seven camera operators left the "Rust" set several hours before the tragedy. Both sites also reported that there had been at least one malfunction earlier with the gun used as an accessory.

"We mentioned everything, from non-payment for three weeks, the hotels they took from us even though we asked for them in contracts, the lack of Corona safety, and besides, poor firearm safety! Poor safety in the set, period!", Wrote one of the camera crew members on his private Facebook account , According to Deadline.