We don’t have enough information at this time to form a full opinion.
Meanwhile, First Asst. Director Dave Halls, who handed the loaded gun to Baldwin, also worked on The Crow: Salvation, the sequel to the movie where Brandon Lee was accidentally killed by a gun. Weird.
Some here have been speculating that the film will be canceled. It will be interesting to see. There’s a lot of money at stake, and canceling isn’t going to undo the tragedy. There are probably some big stakeholders, including possibly the guarantor of a completion bond, who may refuse to pay up if they voluntarily decide to abandon the film, which could then trigger a liability suit from lenders/financiers. It would be a mess. If Baldwin himself decides he doesn’t want to continue, he’d personally face major potential liabilities. You can’t just walk out on a contract because you’re emotionally distraught.
There’s really not a lot of money at stake; the film’s budget was under six million I believe.
I heard it was something like 6 or 7 million. Low-budget by blockbuster standards, but that may still be a lot of money to whoever may have provided it upfront.
Maybe film isn’t the career for him. Many people leave the film business to have perfectly fine lives in other industries. I think he’s racked up enough of a body-count to seriously consider that as a good lateral move.
He worked on the sequel to the movie where Brandon Lee died.
… The Crow: Salvation, the sequel to the movie where Brandon Lee was accidentally killed by a gun.
Do you mean Brandon Lee? Because Jason Lee was killed by Internet Death Hoax.
I did mean Brandon, of course. Thanks
If she grew up with guns, I would have to assume that she’s just playing a role that she thinks will make herself more relatable to all the LA hipsters who think that you fall over dead from “gun juju” if you ever put your hand on one of the things.
I’m going to go with late nights and drinking, not lack of knowledge and nepotism.
If she had said “when I was 9 years old I found that the scariest thing ever but daddy showed me how to do it safely” sure, I could see that.
An adult woman saying that? WTF?
If you find firearms frightening you have two choices: avoid them entirely, or get trained until you are comfortable with them. It’s fine if someone who grew up to be an armorer started afraid, but if she’s actually hired to do the work she should be way, way, way past that.
My vote is “imperfect jerk”. I am not clear how much he might or might not have been aware of everything going on. Although on the day in question it must have been known to everyone there had been a walk-out.
One death is a lot, but he hasn’t worked on more than that unless you are aware of a second incident on another movie.
Because I don’t trust the Daily Mail, it’s not clear if the “loading blanks in a gun” was talking about her first time as head armorer or when she was still training.
On the lighter side- was there really a market for a movie starring Alec Baldwin? Who wants to see that?
Hey, he was terrific as Trump on SNL! 
I would, at least potentially. I’ve enjoyed Alec Baldwin in most things I’ve seen him in.
The armorer was young, inexperienced and female, and it’s very probable that she was brushed aside by senior men on the set and her concerns ignored, and that she didn’t have the self-confidence to either stand up to them or walk out.
However, the real question is why there were live rounds on the set in the first place. That’s inexcusable.
The presence of live rounds must surely be the armorer’s responsibility.
There has been lots of speculation about what happened here, but there are two things I’ve read that if true are more than fishy. IF it’s true that protocol was breached and that Baldwin was given the weapon by anyone other than the armorer, and IF it’s true that this breach of protocol featured a weapon with a live round…
Holy hell, that’s fucked up to say the least.
(Also, if true, wouldn’t Baldwin have known that it was weird that someone other than the armorer gave him the gun?)
What’s really crazy is that there were THREE previous accidental discharges from supposedly ‘cold’ guns. How does that happen?
The armorer also sounds totally incompetent - and absent while a scene involving guns was shot.
This sounds all kinds of of messed up. Probably a toxic, completely dysfunctional atmosphere with rules being broken all over thr place.
There was, maybe a month or so ago, someone on Twitter/Instagram collecting a bunch of these film-employee horror stories in one place, and it was so painful to read.