Rust special effects coordinator says Halyna Hutchins ‘immediately started bleeding profusely’
Alec Baldwin is shown on set of Rust on the phone after shooting Halyna Hutchins – as special effects coordinator describes how she ‘immediately started bleeding profusely’ and bullet left a hole in her coat
The photograph shows Baldwin with his back to the camera on the phone while still on the Rust movie set There are two sheriffs deputies in front of him and he is sitting next to two other unidentified crew membersAt the time, he says he was unaware that Halyna Hutchins had been shot by a live bullet and was gravely illShe died in the hospital a short time after being airlifted; Baldwin says it took 45 mins for him to know she was shot by a live bulletThe photo emerged on Friday along with others of Halyna working on the film before she was killed Special effects coordinator Thomas Gandy was standing behind her when she was shotHe told Good Morning America that she started bleeding ‘immediately’ and ‘profusely’ and that her silver coat had a hole in it from where the bullet struckBaldwin, who hosted a charity gala last night, insists he did not pull the trigger
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A new photograph has emerged of Alec Baldwin on the set of Rust, immediately after shooting Halyna Hutchins dead, speaking with someone on the phone while sitting with other cast and crew in front of sheriffs and the roped off church where the accident happened.
The picture was shown on Good Morning America on Friday as the special effects coordinator from the film and another of the actors told of the harrowing moments Halyna was shot, and when they learned that she’d died by reading it in the press.
Until now, the first pictures of Baldwin after the shooting were taken in the parking lot of the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Department. He was buckled over with grief, having just learned that she’d died, and after being grilled by investigators about how he accidentally shot her.
The new photograph was taken from behind and does not show his face. By his own recollections of the day, he didn’t yet know that it was a live round that had struck Halyna, much less killed her, and was confused as to what happened.
‘She goes down, I thought to myself, “Did she faint?” The notion that there was a live round in that gun did not dawn on me ’till probably 45 minutes to an hour later,’ Baldwin said in an interview with ABC News last week.
Thomas Gandy, the special effects coordinator, told Good Morning America on Friday that he was standing behind her when she fell to the ground and ‘immediately’ started bleeding ‘profusely’.
Alec Baldwin is shown on the set of Rust in the immediate aftermath of the shooting that killed Halyna Hutchins. He is on the phone. It’s unclear who he is sitting next to but the man to his right resembles assistant director Dave Halls, who handed him the gun
Baldwin is shown in the same waistcoat, hat and outfit on the set of Rust, standing next to Halyna, in the days before she was killed in October
Baldwin is shown after being told that Halyna had died in the hospital. He was outside the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office and had been interviewed about what happened
Baldwin, 63, insists it was a misfire and that he did not pull the trigger. Gandy did not speak to that in his interview with Good Morning America on Friday morning. He however told of the ‘bedlam’ that came after everyone realized she had been struck.
‘Immediately, you can hear the bedlam going off inside this building. People were scrambling, running. No one even thought that it might have been a real bullet.
‘Halyna had her back to me directly, she was wearing, I’ll never forget, a sort of silvery, shiny coat. There was a hole in it and immediately, bleeding. Bleeding profusely.
‘Right then, like I said, that’s when it got real and still not even knowing Joel poor guy is writhing. We don’t even know he’s been shot through the chest at that point,’ he said.
He was referring to Joel Souza, the director who was shot in the shoulder but recovered. Halyna died in the hospital afterwards.
His description of what happened is far more graphic than Baldwin’s, who said he first thought Halyna might have had a ‘heart attack’ or ‘fainted’ when she fell to the ground.
Special effects coordinator Thomas Gandy told GMA that Halyna started bleeding ‘immediately and profusely’ when she wa shot and that the bullet ‘left a hole in her coat’
Baldwin is shown sitting on the set next to a fire and a long rifle in the days before he accidentally shot Hutchins
Halyna Hutchins is shown on the set of Rust in the days before she was killed. She was described by cast and crew as being at the ‘heart’ of the production
The actor and his wife Hilaria – who has argued with reporters and photographers for confronting them since the shooting – were seen out last night in New York City to attend their first public event since the tragedy.
Baldwin, who has cooperated with police and who says he does not think he will be criminally charged, posted an open letter written by several of the crew on Instagram on Thursday to squash descriptions of the set as ‘chaotic’ or ‘exploitative.’
Gandy. the special effects coordinator, is among those who signed the letter.
It says: ‘This letter is written on behalf of the cast and crew of the film production, Rust. It has not been sanctioned or influenced in any way by the producers.
‘We, the undersigned, believe the public narrative surrounding our workplace tragedy to be inadequate and wish to express a more accurate account of our experience.
Baldwin was back on stage on Thursday night at the RFK Ripple of Hope Gala, where he was the host. He didn’t mention the tragedy but said he was glad to be out of the house
Baldwin with his wife Hilaria, right, and Kerry Kennedy at the gala on Thursday night. It was the Baldwins first official event since the October 21 shooting
The couple are shown leaving their Manhattan apartment after Hilaria took to Instagram to complain about media attention
Hilaria Baldwin’s Instagram story on Friday morning where she told followers to reclaim their voices and speak their truths. Alec is shown, right, buying a Christmas tree in New York City on Thursday
‘We are hurting for the loss of our friend and colleague Halyna Hutchins. We are hurting for our friends that have been targeted by the public as they themselves grieve.
‘Unfortunately, in the film industry, it is common to work on unprofessional or hectic productions.
‘Rust was not one of them. Rust was professional. The descriptions of Rust as a chaotic, dangerous and exploitative workplace are false and distract from what matters the most: the memory of Halyna Hutchins.’
Baldwin was hosting a human rights event last night.
He joked on the podium about wanting to get out of his home where he lives with Hilaria and their six children, telling the crowd: ‘I would do anything to get out of the house for 30 minutes.’
Baldwin posted this open letter on his Instagram page which was written by dozens of Rust cast and crewmembers where they said the set was safe and not exploitative
Before they went out for the night, Hilaria took to Instagram to complain about being hounded by the press.
She said Baldwin has ‘PTSD’ and said reporters ‘mess with his mental health.’
She shared a video of a New York Post reporter confronting them on the steps of Woody Allen’s townhouse earlier this week as an example.
The reporter was asking Baldwin whether or not he had pulled the trigger on the gun on the set of Rust.
Hilaria, as she has done in the past, started filming the reporter and asking him to leave.
She wrote in a caption alongside it: ‘My husband has PTSD, has had for a long time, now, worse than ever. Some take advantage by poking at him, trying to rile him up, messing with his mental health.
‘It works sometimes. I try to ward it off. This is a good example.’
No one has been charged in the Rust shooting but Sante Fe sheriffs continue to investigate exactly what happened.
Hutchins’ widower, Matt, said in October, after the accident, that he had spoken with Baldwin and that Baldwin was being ‘very supportive’.
