6 Capitol riot an "armed insurrection." That leads to a few questions: How many rioters were armed? And what weapons did they have? What were the arms in the "armed insurrection"? He may not be as guilty as the armorer who physically put the live round in there, but he does bear some of the burden, just like all top people do when accidents happen in the workplace.It has become common in some circles to call the Jan. And he should have.Īnyway, as one of the producers, the buck has to stop somewhere. You are perfectly correct, if he wanted to, he could have had the clout to enforce better safety precautions on set.
This is why, despite the fact that Alec did not know the gun was loaded, it is partially his responsibility, *as a lead actor and producer*, that a person died on set. Did Alec do something similar? Or did he let all these mistakes slide even though he should have known better?
Kinda like when Tom Cruise yelled at the staff members of his movie (Mission Impossible) about Covid safety precautions. After 4 accidental firings, did that leave Alec friggin' Baldwin to start screaming and demand people start doing their jobs better? He has the experience to know what is normal for a movie set and what is not normal. He has been on the set on many, many movies. There were multiple BIG mistakes that led to her death.īut Alec is a big-name movie star. Point taken, that is a logical interpretation of his alleged comment.Īnonymous wrote:I don't necessarily blame Alec. Sound more like the gun guy wanted to play with the props during the break - maybe it was a cool historical model and he wanted to see how it shot and how good his aim would be with it - and forgot that he left live rounds in the gun. It's just outrageous that the gun was loaded, and frankly less suprising that his first response was to yell who the hell gave me a loaded gun? He probably yelled that before he even realized he'd hit anyone with it.
Pulling the trigger on an onloaded six-shooter would not be a big deal at all-just a click and nothing else. He probably didn't even think there was a blank in the gun, as it sounds like they weren't shooting with blanks.
Of course he had no idea of knowing that there was live round, and the director and cinematographer were behind plexiglass.
Honestly - think about how many scenes there were exactly like that in Deadwood with the quick pull and shoot off the hip. I thought the director maybe said he wanted a quick, shoot from the hip look, and Baldwin said "Is this what you want" drawing the gun and doing a quick shot. It probably did not help that they were not working with unionized crew (who would be more aware of their rights/required precautions). So, I blame who ever had MANAGEMENT authority (on scence, not back at the studio) over the set. Seems like (perhaps,this is hearsay) that rules were not being followed AND he though it was funny to joke with a gun.įrom what all of the professionals have posted, even prop guns are supposed to be tightly controlled. I thought we read above that rubber guns are used during rehearsals? Anonymous wrote:Set member Alec Baldwin was rehearsing a church scene with the cinematographer when he drew the gun and said something like 'is this what you want?' and then pulled the trigger.