The director of Rust told investigators that he had been standing beside the film’s cinematographer as actor Alec Baldwin sat in a wooden church pew, rehearsing a scene in which he draws a gun and points it at the camera lens, according to an affidavit released Sunday night. The director, Joel Souza, said he then heard what “sounded like a whip and then loud pop.”
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico: Alec Baldwin was rehearsing a scene that involved pointing a revolver “towards the camera lens” when the gun which the crew had been told did not contain live rounds suddenly went off and killed the cinematographer, according to the film’s director, who was quoted in an affidavit released Sunday night.
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The cinematographer died after being shot by the actor with a prop gun on the