American actor Alec Baldwin has shot and killed a camerawoman on a film set. The sheriff of Santa Fe County in New Mexico made the announcement.
Victim Halyna Hutchins was like director of photography responsible for the entire camera crew. The director of the film, Joel Souza, was also injured. Baldwin, 63, is one of the protagonists and producer of the film, the western Peace.
It is still unclear what exactly went wrong. A firearm was used during the recordings and, according to the American entertainment site TMZ, there should have been blanks in it. American media speak of an accident.
The incident happened on the set of the movie Rust:
Camera director Hutchins (42) and director Souza (48) were taken to a hospital. Hutchins succumbed to her injuries there, Souza has since left the hospital.
Desperate Baldwin
Two days ago, Hutchins posted pictures of the set on Instagram. She posted a photo of the cast and crew and wrote in a video of her riding a horse in her spare time that this is one of the perks of shooting a western.
The actor has not yet commented on the incident. Photos of a “pretty desperate Baldwin” are circulating on Twitter, says correspondent Marieke de Vries.
The photos that correspondent Marieke de Vries refers to:
No one has been arrested for the incident. However, the shooting for the film has been stopped for the time being.
“It’s late at night here, so the news will develop over the next few hours. The initial reactions here have been mostly: what an incredible set of circumstances. And commentary has come from conservative quarters because Baldwin has always been very vocal about gun ownership. “
Trump
Alec Baldwin broke through in movies like in the late 80s Beetle Juice and The Hunt for the Red October. He later starred on TV in the comedy series 30 Rock and became his parody of Donald Trump for the sketch show Saturday Night Live world famous.
In the movie Peace does he play a outlaw who gets his grandson out of prison after he accidentally kills someone.
It’s not the first time a firearm has gone wrong on a movie set: in 1993, actor Brandon Lee, Bruce Lee’s son, was shot dead on the set of the movie. The Crow. The gun should have been loaded with blanks, but it turned out there was a bullet in the gun.
“No one should be injured by a bullet on a movie set,” Shannon Lee, the sister of actor Brandon Lee, responded to the incident on the New Mexico movie set.
She expressed her condolences on Twitter:
Other well-known film actors also react with horror to the events. Elijah Wood, actor known for his role in the film The Lord of the Rings, calls the news “heartbreaking” on Twitter. Guardians of the Galaxydirector James Gunn says on Twitter that his biggest fear is someone getting hurt on his film set.
Several actors, including Joe Manganiello who once worked with Hutchins, wonder out loud on Twitter how it is possible that shots are fired on a film set. Filmmaker Alex Winter emphasizes that a film set should never be unsafe “and that there is always a clear reason when it is”.