Hannah Reed-Gutierrez: ‘Rust’ armorer ‘mishandled’ guns on previous film with Nicolas Cage, crew members say
Stu Brumbaugh, the important thing grip on “The Previous Approach,” advised CNN that Reed-Gutierrez dealt with weapons on the set of that undertaking in a reckless method and that he urged the movie’s assistant director to fireplace her.
“There is a common solution to deal with weapons on set and instantly crimson flags went up once I labored with Hannah,” Brumbaugh mentioned. “For this reason I requested for her dismissal.”
“For this reason 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 Reed-Gutierrez.
Brumbaugh cited an incident through which Reed-Gutierez 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 line with 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 once I mentioned she must be let go, she’s essentially the most inexperienced armorer I had ever labored with. I do not know why she wasn’t let go.”
CNN has reached out to Cage for remark.
Reed-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 Approach.”
“I nearly did not take the job as a result of I wasn’t positive 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 Approach” and requested their title not be included for worry {of professional} reprisal advised CNN in addition they had issues about Reed-Gutierrez’s work on the undertaking.
“She walked out onto the set with reside 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 beneath 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 aimed toward individuals. She circled and the pistols that have been tucked beneath 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 reside spherical.”
Mendoza mentioned Reed-Gutierrez, Baldwin and others on the “Rust” set on the time of the capturing are cooperating with the investigation.
