The head armorer for the film “Rust” reportedly expressed doubt over her level of job experience one month before the tragic incident took place.
In September, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed appeared on the podcast “Voices of the West“ and revealed that she almost didn’t take the job as lead gun handler because she wasn’t sure if she was “ready.”
“You know, I was really nervous about it at first, and I almost didn’t take the job because I wasn’t sure if I was ready … but, doing it, like, it went really smoothly,” the 24-year-old said at the time.
Gutierrez-Reed, the daughter of experienced Hollywood armorer Thell Reed, also admitted that “Rust” was only her second movie as a head armorer. She admitted that she was particularly nervous about loading blanks into props.
“I think loading blanks was the scariest thing to me because I was like ‘oh, I don’t know anything about it,'” she said. However, she added that her veteran father helped train her.
Alec Baldwin shot and killed a cinematographer on set with a loaded prop gun. Court documents detail that assistant director Dave Halls handed Baldwin the gun and told him the weapon was a” cold gun,” which meant it was supposedly not loaded with live rounds—shortly before the fatal shooting took place near Santa Fe, New Mexico.
