back in 2019. also today, new photos just in to cnn showing baldwin meeting with helena hutchins husband and son in new mexico. in a statement the actor said his heart was broken for them and he s fully cooperating as police investigate. helena hutchins died there from the gunshot wound there on the set. cnn correspondent lucy kafanov is in santa fe, new mexico. lucy, what more are you learning about the safety issues and accusations? reporter: that s right, fred. we remember from the affidavit, the police affidavit, that david halls was listed as the assistant director who picked up one of the three prop weapons left outside of the structure where the team was filming that fateful thursday by the head arm oher. he picked up the gun. he walked it into the building. he handed it to alec baldwin shouting cold gun which should have meant that the we op or the prop weapon had no live rounds.
even find their marks and then they will walk through and do a blocking rehearsal so the actors will find their marks here and figure out where they want to put the camera and will rehears that with no guns at all. if the scene requires it we can give them an empty gun or cold gun if we have to but generally we rehearse with a cold gun or dummy gun and then we block it out with the entire crew. the department heads will watch the blocking and see where the actor standing and where the camera is going and then they can come in and do the lighting and shape the light and figure out where the microphones are going and then when absolutely is ready, the very last thing we do. the arm oher will go in, make the gun hot mean loading the blanks into the gun, offer it to the actor. the actor has an opportunity to inspect it. the first a.d. who runs the set has an opportunity to inspect it and then we ll say we ve gone hospital we ll roll camera. they will film. they will finish the scene and th
now euphoria, sam levenson, the show run and director demands authenticity. every t is crossed and i is dotted and we use real firearms whenever possible, and whenever there s a firearm brought out on set he makes sure there s an actual arm oher, not just a prop person or crew person but an arm oher with the gun to make sure that we re at the utmost of safety and we block every scene and we know in advance where the actors are pointing, when they are going to pull the trigger and where the cameras are placed and the safety procedures also extend to the camera department. it used to be you had to have an operator on the eye piece, on the lens and a focus puller next to the lens. two people right next to the cameras, but with the current technology, when we film scenes, oftentimes we can put a camera on a remote control and have an operator 10, 20, 30 feet away looking at a monitor and a focus puller working on a remote head and there s nobody next to the camera when it s being fir
and i know, dutch, you were not on the set of rust when the this happened on thursday, but can you give us an idea of when you have a rehearsal involving a firearm, again, we don t know all the details about, you know, the weapon or whether indeed there were live rounds or if this is an accident as a result of blanks. we just don t have that concrete information, but can you give us an idea at this juncture generally when there is going to be a rehearsal, because i have seen reportedly that this was a rehearsal for this scene, to. what are the steps that might take place before the gun is even hand to the actor? mean, you mentioned the arm oher, but there are quite a few people involved, is that the case, to handle this weapon, double check and triple check before the actor gets it even for a rehearsal? generally speaking the actors will rehears dialogue and won t
while shooting the crow and no criminal charges were filed but lee s mother settled a case and we re told this baldwin was the person who discharged the firearm but is it he orrers who are more responsible? certainly on the civil side i would think he s less vulnerable than other. the civil negligence standard is much lower than the criminal negligent standard so when you talk about civil negligence, in other words, filing a lawsuit to get damages, you re talking about whether someone violated a duty of care. did they act as a reasonable person or not, and so you think about how this gun was handled all the way from the arm oher to the producers, to the director, you know. what was going on on that film set that allowed this had a top. there s definitely going to be civil liability there somewhere. there s a term in the law, this latin term which essentially