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Replacing Halyna Hutchins on Rust Was the Challenge of a Lifetime
Cinematographer Bianca Cline on why the film had to be finished after her predecessor’s tragic death on set.
When Bianca Cline agreed to step in for Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer who died of an accidental gunshot wound on the set of Rust, she suspected she might never work again. “I hope that the film becomes a memorial to her,” Cline told me over Zoom earlier this month as the Rust crew prepared for the premiere at Poland’s 2024 Camerimage Festival on Wednesday. Although some members of the film community disagreed with the festival’s decision to debut the movie, Cline sees the completed Rust as a potential antidote to a salacious media frenzy — one that allowed the horrific manner of Hutchins’s death to overshadow who she was, both as a person and an artist.
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