The chief lighting technician of the film ‘Rust’, Serge Svetnoy, has filed a lawsuit against the actor and producer Alec Baldwin and other members of the production after cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died following a prop gun misfire.
Baldwin was the one to discharge a prop firearm on the set of the movie, with director Joel Souza also injured after the incident.
At a press conference in Los Angeles, Svetnoy, who was also wounded by the bullet that killed Hutchins, said that ammunition “was completely unattended at all times, giving someone access and opportunity” throughout the filming at Bonanza Creek Ranch, in Santa Fe (New Mexico, USA).
Because of these conditions on set and the subsequent fatal accident, Svetnoy filed a negligence lawsuit at the Los Angeles Superior Court against the film’s producers, including Baldwin, as well as the assistant director and gun control officer.
Blaming the woman in charge of the weapons
In that judicial document, to which EFE had access, the lighting expert blamed the weapons officer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed for accepting a job over and above her experience in a shoot in which “several auxiliary gunsmiths were necessary to safely handle” those weapons.
