Alec Baldwin shared a letter on his Instagram account on Thursday, signed by members of the crew of the film Rust, who defend the production of the film, in the shooting of which the director of photography Halina Hutchins was killed by a real bullet.
In an open, lengthy letter, the distributor and crew members disprove the image that other members of Rust’s crew have described as a production where safety was not observed and instead described a set where morale was high and working conditions were high. good.
“Rust’s descriptions of a chaotic, dangerous workplace that favored exploitation are false and distracting from what matters most: the memory of Halina Hutchins and the need to find modern alternatives to the anachronistic practices of the weapons and security “, is mentioned in the letter, which was posted by Baldwin and signed by 25 members of the cast and the crew.
Hutchins, the film’s director of photography, was killed and director Joel Souza was injured when a gun held by Baldwin on the set in Santa Fe, New Mexico, dropped a live bullet.
The actor denied responsibility for the fatal shooting in a television interview last week.
The signatories of the letter admit that “a few members of the crew” had resigned before the accident “, but emphasize that the majority had remained.
“The few dissatisfied do not represent the views of all of us,” the letter said.
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