{"id":962369,"date":"2021-11-03T12:44:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T16:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=962369"},"modified":"2021-11-03T12:44:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T16:44:36","slug":"baldwin-shares-posts-disputing-unsafe-conditions-on-movie-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/baldwin-shares-posts-disputing-unsafe-conditions-on-movie-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Baldwin Shares Posts Disputing \u2018Unsafe\u2019 Conditions On Movie Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbaldwin-shares-posts-disputing-unsafe-conditions-on-movie-set%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=962369&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Actor Alec Baldwin shared a lengthy string of social media posts written by a crew member of the Western movie \u201cRust,\u201d who blasts co-workers for describing the New Mexico set as \u201cchaotic and unsafe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baldwin fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza on October 21. He says he was told the gun he was using in a scene was \u201ccold,\u201d meaning unloaded or loaded only with blanks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRead this,\u201d Baldwin wrote about the multiple Instagram posts penned by Terese Magpale Davis, who worked in the wardrobe department for the movie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so sick of this narrative,\u201d Davis wrote. \u201cI worked on this movie. The story being spun of us being overworked and surrounded by unsafe, chaotic conditions is bull***t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cWe never worked more than a 12.5 hour shoot day. That was once,\u201d Davis wrote. \u201cMost days were under 12. The day Halyna died we had come off of a 12 hour turnaround after an 11 hour shoot day. We had (including camera) gotten off by 6:30pm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had just had a 56 hour weekend right before that. No one was too tired to do their jobs. This is all provable by daily time sheets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Several crew members said they had been given hotel rooms in Santa Fe but were later informed they had to make a 50-mile drive from Albuquerque each day to the set near Sante Fe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Davis said that isn\u2019t true. \u201cThe camera crew HAD hotels. They just didn\u2019t feel they were fancy enough. NOT that they were unsafe. You can\u2019t tell me that 6 big men felt so unsafe in their hotel but were fine sleeping in their cars in parking lots (which never happened) like they also claimed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd our set was only 35 minutes from Albuquerque. Santa Fe is an hour from Albuquerque, but the set was 25 minutes south of that. So they aren\u2019t even traveling that far to go home,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Davis also said safety was not compromised on set. \u201cOur AD never seemed flippant about safety,\u201d she wrote, referring to assistant director Dave Halls, \u201cwho reportedly handed Baldwin the pistol that killed Hutchins and insisted that it was a \u2018cold gun,\u2019 according to a search warrant,\u201d the New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/03\/alec-baldwin-shares-post-disputing-unsafe-conditions-on-rust\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAm I angry with him? Yes. But I won\u2019t jump on the bandwagon and pretend he was uncaring about our safety the whole way through,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Davis also defended the head armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, 24. Crew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Alec Baldwin shared a lengthy string of social media posts written by a crew member of the Western movie \u201cRust,\u201d who blasts co-workers for describing the New Mexico set as \u201cchaotic and unsafe.\u201dBaldwin fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza on October 21. He says he was told the gun he was using in a scene was \u201ccold,\u201d meaning unloaded or loaded only with blanks.\u201cRead this,\u201d Baldwin wrote about the multiple Instagram posts penned by Terese Magpale Davis, who worked in the wardrobe department for the movie.\u201cI am so sick of this narrative,\u201d Davis wrote. \u201cI worked on this movie. The story being spun of us being overworked and surrounded by unsafe, chaotic conditions is bull***t.\u201d\u201cWe never worked more than a 12.5 hour shoot day. That was once,\u201d Davis wrote. \u201cMost days were under 12. The day Halyna died we had come off of a 12 hour turnaround after an 11 hour shoot day. We had (including camera) gotten off by 6:30pm.\u201d\u201cWe had just had a 56 hour weekend right before that. No one was too tired to do their jobs. This is all provable by daily time sheets.\u201dSeveral crew members said they had been given hotel rooms in Santa Fe but were later informed they had to make a 50-mile drive from Albuquerque each day to the set near Sante Fe.Davis said that isn\u2019t true. \u201cThe camera crew HAD hotels. They just didn\u2019t feel they were fancy enough. NOT that they were unsafe. You can\u2019t tell me that 6 big men felt so unsafe in their hotel but were fine sleeping in their cars in parking lots (which never happened) like they also claimed.\u201d\u201cAnd our set was only 35 minutes from Albuquerque. Santa Fe is an hour from Albuquerque, but the set was 25 minutes south of that. So they aren\u2019t even traveling that far to go home,\u201d she said.Davis also said safety was not compromised on set. \u201cOur AD never seemed flippant about safety,\u201d she wrote, referring to assistant director Dave Halls, \u201cwho reportedly handed Baldwin the pistol that killed Hutchins and insisted that it was a \u2018cold gun,\u2019 according to a search warrant,\u201d the New York Post reported.\u201cAm I angry with him? Yes. But I won\u2019t jump on the bandwagon and pretend he was uncaring about our safety the whole way through,\u201d she said.Davis also defended the head armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, 24. Crew members have said she lacked experience.\u201cI\u2019ll fight to have our armorers have higher standards they must pass to be in that position where they hold all of our lives in their hands,\u201d the costume designer wrote, according to the Instagram screenshots.\u201cBut I\u2019m not okay with using her to be the poster child for better hours,\u201d she added before ripping\u00a0the \u201cpitchfork\u201d mob blaming the movie\u2019s producers.\u201cMaybe you could just not be one more person with a pitchfork in a mob that has no idea what you\u2019re talking about because you weren\u2019t there,\u201d she wrote.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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