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‘It ruined me’: Rust director speaks for first time about fatal on-set shooting

Joel Souza was shot in same incident that killed Halyna Hutchins and tells Vanity Fair ‘no one deserved this’

Joel Souza, the director of the movie Rust, has said that although he survived being shot in the shoulder in the same on-set incident involving Alec Baldwin that killed the cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and shocked the industry, a part of him feels like it did not. The incident occurred during filming in New Mexico on 21 October 2021 when a prop gun held by the actor Alec Baldwin went off during rehearsal, firing a live round of ammunition toward the crew behind the camera. An assistant director, Dave Halls, accepted a plea bargain and was convicted of negligent use of a firearm for failing to check what should have been dummy rounds in Baldwin’s gun before filming.

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