The first time a trigger is pulled in ‘Rust,’ it became impossible for the audience to not think about Baldwin fatally shooting cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, a premiere attendee wrot…
Alec Baldwin speaks on the phone in the parking lot outside the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office in Santa Fe, N.M., after he was questioned about a shooting on the set of the film “Rust” on the outskirts of Santa Fe, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021. Baldwin fired a prop gun on the set, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza, officials said.
Three years earlier, the film’s Ukrainian-born cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, was killed after Baldwin pointed a gun at her during a rehearsal on the film’s set outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. The gun went off, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza. But at the film’s world premiere, it was “undeniable” that a certain percentage of people only attended the premiere as a way of “rubbernecking the tail end of a long, difficult, outright-ignoble years-long saga,” Newman wrote.Before the film started, festival organizers asked the audience to stand for a moment of silence in honor of Hutchins. They then said they hoped that people would just watch the film on its own, not as “any tragedy or extended legal proceedings.
“The first time a trigger is pulled in Rust, it clicks on an empty barrel; the second leads to a character’s accidental death, engendering a full-bore gasp from premiere attendees,” Newman wrote. “While I didn’t take time to poll this at-capacity crowd, that reaction seemed less from deep investment in a just-started plot than some breath of acknowledgment.
Before Hutchins’ death, Baldwin had expressed high hopes for “Rust” as a work of entertainment and even of art. The Emmy-winning “30 Rock” star may have seen “Rust” as a way to revive a career that was veering into the territory of “geezer-teasers” andwith Kelsey Grammar.
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