(ANSA) – NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 11 – A member of the ‘Rust’ film crew Serge Svetnoy has filed a lawsuit against several companies and individuals involved in the film, including Alec Baldwin, after the accident that cost her her life director of photography Halyna Hutchins.
The proceedings accuse Baldwin, assistant director David Halls, gunsmith Hannah Gutierrez Reed and other defendants of negligence that caused Svetnoy to “severe emotional distress”. In addition to blaming the manufacturers, among other things, for not hiring a competent and experienced gunsmith. The man, who worked as head lighting technician on the set, says he was hit by “waste materials” from the blast and narrowly missed the bullet from the gun the actor was holding. “The presence of a real bullet in a revolver posed a lethal threat to anyone in its vicinity,” reads the lawsuit, alleging the “failure to implement” industry standards for the custody and control of firearms used. on the set”. Svetnoy believes “that the ammunition used was never safely stored and was simply left unattended on the stage truck”. (HANDLE).
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