Souza was also injured by the bullet that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, a day he illustrated in detail to Vanity Fair
director Joel Souza is finally opening up about his own experience on that fateful day. “There’s a lot of people who know a lot of very specific things about all of it, but in a weird way, I feel like I’m the person who knows the most about all of it,” he toldThe interview gets into the nitty gritty of everything that led up to that moment and everything—at least the things that Souza was willing to speak about without crossing any personal boundaries—that came after.
He also relives the day of the shooting minute-by-minute in a truly harrowing account of why you should never hear a sound like “a gunshot you hear in a movie” on an actual movie set. “It felt like a horse kicked me in the shoulder or someone hit me with a bat.
But while he says he was “furious at that moment,” he’s come to a pretty profound place regarding his feelings of anger and blame in the months since. “When there are matters of things like ammunition and guns and safety, you don’t fuck around there. You just don’t,” he said. “And so the armorer had to answer for her role in that… I think blame can be toxic to your soul—not that people don’t deserve blame.” Still, “No one feels good about someone going to jail.
As anyone would have guessed, the whole experience radically altered the trajectory of Souza’s life. “When I tell someone it ruined me, I don’t mean in the sense that people might generally think… I mean, internally, the person I was just went away. That stopped,” he said. “It’s not like I was in love with the guy I was before, anyway. You look in the mirror the day after that happens, and now there’s somebody else there. I didn’t know things about the world one day, and now I do.
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