just one second. was it loaded with a real bullet? i cannot tell you that. we have two injuries from a movie gunshot. okay. we are getting them out there already. just stay on the phone with me. okay? okay. no, no, no, i am a script supervisor. how many people were injured? two that i know of. i was sitting we were rehearsing and it went off and i ran out. we all ran out. they were doubled over, the ad and the the camerawoman and the direct and the director. we are back on the we re back in the town. what s it called we re whack in back in the western town. is there any serious bleeding? i don t know. i ran out of the building. but we need i still have to go through these. okay? are they completely alert? we don t know. i can t tell. so investigators will search the property on a ranch in new mexico this weekend where the movie rust was being filmed
the set. how the the man s family feels who is in the hospital and alec baldwin. i mean, it s just a tragedy. a tragedy, all the way around. and it should have never happened. yeah. think about the history of the movie business and how, i mean, it s only happened this is the second time this way. there was a third one but john eric, remember, in the 80s? right but he put a gun up against his head and the blastability and burnability of a blank was enough to cause him a mortal wound. brandon lee. this is the same thing. i saw his sister on your show. somebody confused the ammo. now, look, let s start with what s obvious. there is no reason for bullets on a movie set. none. it s make believe. but they are real guns. and sometimes, people use them. um, and forget about murderous intentions. they use them. they target practice. they do whatever they do. now, you have an issue with the
the new mexico occupational health and safety bureau says it is also investigating this incident and the l.a. times and others reporting tonight that prior to the shooting, several crew members quit the movie due to concerns over conditions and safety issues including gun safety procedures. now, alec baldwin breaking his silence today saying he is shocked and saddened by the tragic accident and is fully cooperating with police. the da saying it is unclear whether charges will be filed but not the first incident someone has been killed by what were supposed to be harmless guns on a movie set. actor brandon lee. you have seen it chris s reported, he spoke with his sister, the son of bruce lee, was killed while filming the final scenes of the movie the crow. that was in 1993 after being shot with a plrop gun that was later found to have been improperly loaded. his co-star talked about the gun training on the set of rust just last week. they were like all right. what what gun would y
lee, there was supposedly supposedly many safety protocols that were upgraded and changed. do you think there still needs to be more? if you look at the history of the entire movie business, i mean, these two this is two out of a very long history. but still, a life is a life. right. of course. and and i would like to also say my heartfelt sympathies go out to everyone involved in this. from the you know, from alec baldwin to the the poor family of the people that the lady the dp that lost her life and the director and all the crew that was involved in it. it s such a tragedy. and, you know, something that you hope, like you said, could be avoided by making sure that safety s followed. having said that, yes. one of the things that i have always pushed for and other professional prop masters that i work with who, you know, know exactly how this all should go and they followed those protocols because, well, they have done it a long time and they re professional. and studi
between union members and the production. so, this is what we are going to see unfortunately in all of this tragedy, we re also going to see a lot of lawsuits. there is going to be a lot of legal issues here, insurance companies, all there is a lot of financiers on this movie because it is a small, independent production. you get a lot of different companies feeding money into it. you know, and of course, we know alec baldwin producer on the film. yeah. i want to put up these photographs of alec baldwin taken after the incident. appears, obviously, he is distraught. i mean, who wouldn t be? tell us more about what you are hearing from alec. you know, what we are hearing from him were his tweets that said he is in touch with her family. that he, you know, he there are no words to describe how he s feeling and let s be honest, like you said before, people are politicizing this. there s no politics in this. this is hollywood movie making. it was make believe. it is pretend tha