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- Mamie Mitchell, script supervisor for the movie “Rust,” filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against actor Alec Baldwin, film producers and several crew members.
- Her lawsuit claims assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress and deliberate infliction of harm.
- Mitchell also claimed Baldwin cocked and fired a fatal gunshot towards the film’s director of photography Halyna Hutchins, despite the script not calling for it.
Fallout from actor Alec Baldwin’s fatal onset shooting during filming of the movie “Rust” continued on Wednesday, with the film’s script supervisor filing a lawsuit against Baldwin, producers on the film and several crew members.
Mamie Mitchell, script supervisor for the movie “Rust,” announced Wednesday during a news conference that she had filed the lawsuit, alongside her lawyer, Gloria Allred.
The suit claims assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress and deliberate infliction of harm and requested unspecified damages, according to The New York Times.
The fatal events occurred on Oct. 21 on the set of “Rust” when Baldwin fired a loaded gun and killed Halyna Hutchins, the film’s director of photography. Joel Souza, the film’s director, was also injured. In Mitchell’s suit, she alleges she was also, “standing in the line of fire when the gun went off,” a copy of which was obtained by Deadline.
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The lawsuit goes on to say that days before the shooting, the film’s camera operator had reported two unexpected gun discharges during a rehearsal in a set cabin. The camera operator had even sent a text message to the production manager that said, “this is super unsafe.”
On the day Baldwin shot Hutchins, the lawsuit alleges that the union camera operators and their assistants walked off the film set to protest working conditions, which included safety concerns.
“Every safety protocol designed to ensure that firearms would be safely used were ignored, and actions that were taken were against all industry norms,” the lawsuit stated. It went on to list multiple issues, like how live ammunition was allowed on set and how Baldwin allegedly cocked and fired a gun towards Hutchins and Souza, despite the script not calling for the cocking and firing of a firearm.
Notably, the lawsuit alleges that despite the assistant director telling Baldwin that the firearm was a “cold gun,” the actor failed to check the gun himself to see if it was loaded and that he knew guns are inherently dangerous weapons.
Baldwin has not commented on the latest lawsuit. He last spoke with reporters on Oct. 30, saying Hutchins was a friend and that, “we were a very very well-oiled crew shooting a film together,” according to TMZ.
Mitchell is not the first crew member to bring a lawsuit around the “Rust” shooting. Serge Svetnoy, the film’s gaffer, chief lighting technician, also filed a lawsuit against Baldwin, producers and other crew members. That suit alleges a failure of following safety protocols that would have prevented the fatal shooting of Hutchins.
Svetnoy aided Hutchins as she lay bleeding after being shot by Baldwin, cradling her head for about 30 minutes in an attempt to keep her awake and alert, according to The Washington Post.
The Sante Fe County Sheriff’s Office is conducting an investigation into the fatal shooting and District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies told The New York Times last month that, “We have not ruled out anything. Everything at this point, including criminal charges, is on the table.”
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