In email exchange before shooting, ‘Rust’ armorer said she needed to focus on weapons, not props
by Meg James, Los Angeles Times
Jan 29, 2022
4 minutes
A week before Alec Baldwin fatally shot the cinematographer of “Rust,” the film’s 24-year-old armorer was reprimanded for leaving guns unattended on set and for failing to sufficiently juggle two important roles, emails show.
The armorer, Hannah Gutierrez Reed, had been hired to perform two jobs on the low-budget western: the armorer in charge of guns and gun safety, and also an assistant to the prop master, who was in charge of the props used to simulate 1880s Kansas on the movie set south of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
On Oct. 14, the film’s line producer, Gabrielle Pickle, scolded Gutierrez Reed
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