Hannah Gutierrez: ‘Rust’ armorer ‘mishandled’ guns on previous film with Nicolas Cage, crew members say
Stu Brumbaugh, the important thing grip on “The Previous Method,” instructed CNN that Gutierrez dealt with weapons on the set of that mission in a reckless method and that he urged the movie’s assistant director to fireplace her.
“There is a common method to deal with weapons on set and instantly pink flags went up after I labored with Hannah,” Brumbaugh mentioned. “That is why I requested for her dismissal.”
“That is why individuals get injured due to rookie errors,” he mentioned.
CNN has reached out to the movie’s manufacturing firm and the assistant director on the movie for remark. CNN has additionally reached out to Gutierrez.
Brumbaugh cited an incident during which Gutierrez fired a gun close to the movie’s star Nicolas Cage with out warning.
“Make an announcement! You simply blew my f***ing eardrums out!” Cage screamed in response after which walked off set angrily, in response to Brumbaugh.
“She was speaking to the stunt coordinator, and she or he simply fired off a spherical, it sounded [like she fired] on the floor, and that is when Nick actually laid into her. That is after I mentioned she must be let go, she’s probably the most inexperienced armorer I had ever labored with. I don’t know why she wasn’t let go.”
CNN has reached out to Cage for remark.
Gutierrez is the daughter of longtime Hollywood armorer, Thell Reed. “Rust” was her second movie as an armorer. She mentioned on an episode of The Voices of the West podcast in September that she was “nervous” to work on “The Previous Method.”
“I nearly did not take the job as a result of I wasn’t certain if I used to be prepared, however doing it, prefer it went actually easily,” she mentioned in the course of the podcast.
A supply who labored on “The Previous Method” and requested their identify not be included for concern {of professional} reprisal instructed CNN in addition they had issues about Gutierrez’s work on the mission.
“She walked out onto the set with dwell rounds with no announcement in anyway to the solid and crew by her,” the supply mentioned. “She by no means introduced to anybody that she was strolling on the set carrying firearms loaded with blanks together with her.”
“She did not carry the firearms safely. She had pistols tucked underneath her armpits and was carrying rifles in every hand that have been prepared for use within the scene,” this particular person added. “Firearms have been geared toward individuals. She circled and the pistols that have been tucked underneath her armpits have been pointing again at individuals.”
On Wednesday, the Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza mentioned investigators consider the gun fired by “Rust producer and star Alec Baldwin contained a “suspected dwell spherical.”
Mendoza mentioned Gutierrez, Baldwin and others on the “Rust” set on the time of the taking pictures are cooperating with the investigation.
An earlier model of this story used Hannah Gutierrez’s full identify, Hannah Reed-Gutierrez. It has been up to date to replicate she doesn’t seem to hyphenate her final identify professionally.
