Alec Baldwin demands the presence of a policeman on film and television sets, this after accidentally killing a production partner

American actor Alec Baldwin asked this Monday that from now on the presence of a police officer in film and television filming using weapons, real or false, is required, after the accident in which the actor shot the director of photography Halyna Hutchins.

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Baldwin, who first posted the message on his Twitter account (now private) and then on his public Instagram profile, He explained that the function of the security agent would be exclusively “to monitor the safety of the weapons” in the study.

The authorities of New Mexico (USA) continue to investigate what went wrong so that last month, during the rehearsal of a scene, Baldwin fired a revolver that was loaded with a real bullet that killed Hutchins and wounded the film’s director, Joel Souza.

The Sheriff of the town of Santa Fe, Adan mendoza, said two weeks ago that he had found some 500 rounds of ammunition among which there was a mixture of “Blank cartridges, fake bullets and real bullets.”

Faced with questions from the press about the possible legal responsibility of Baldwin, who in addition to being the protagonist of the film is one of the producers, the sheriff stressed that “nothing is ruled out.”

Researchers know that The pistol passed through two other hands before reaching Baldwin: Dave Halls, the assistant director, and Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the production gunsmith.

The gunsmith’s lawyers insist that their client never knew of the existence of live ammunition nor did she know where it came from, and they even hinted during an interview that someone may have tried to sabotage the recording by introducing live bullets into the studio.

According to his testimony, Gutierrez Reed loaded the pistol with bullets that were in a box labeled “false ammunition.”

For its part, the assistant director admitted that he did not check the pistol properly before handing it over to Baldwin shouting “cold gun”, which in Hollywood lingo is used to confirm that the weapon is unloaded for use.

The statements of team members who worked on the filming of Rust describe a precarious work environment in which protests piled up and half a dozen employees resigned on the same day of the accident.

In fact, the day after Hutchins passed away, a worker was attacked by a poisonous spider while picking up the set and could lose his arm, as reported this Sunday by the New York Post. (I)