Two crew members inform CNN that Hannah Reed-Gutierrez, 24, who was the lead armorer on the set of “Rust,” mishandled weapons on a earlier movie venture.
Stu Brumbaugh, the important thing grip on “The Outdated Manner,” instructed CNN that Reed-Gutierrez dealt with weapons on the set of that venture in a reckless method and that he urged the movie’s assistant director to fireplace her.
“There’s a common strategy to deal with weapons on set and instantly pink flags went up once I labored with Hannah,” Brumbaugh mentioned. “That is why I requested for her dismissal.”
“That is why folks 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 response to Brumbaugh.
“She was speaking to the stunt coordinator, and he or she simply fired off a spherical, it sounded [like she fired] on the floor, and that’s when Nick actually laid into her. That’s once I mentioned she must be let go, she’s probably 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.
Brumbaugh’s allegations had been first reported by The Wrap.
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 She mentioned on an episode of The Voices of the West podcast in September that she was “nervous” to work on “The Outdated Manner.”
“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A supply who labored on “The Outdated Manner” and requested their title not be included for worry {of professional} reprisal instructed CNN additionally they had issues about Reed-Gutierrez’s work on the venture.
“She walked out onto the set with dwell rounds with no announcement in any way 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 below her armpits and was carrying rifles in every hand that had been prepared for use within the scene,” this particular person added. “Firearms had been aimed toward folks. She circled and the pistols that had been tucked below her armpits had been pointing again at folks.”
On Wednesday, the Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza mentioned investigators imagine the gun fired by “Rust” producer and star Alec Baldwin contained a “suspected dwell spherical.”
Mendoza mentioned Reed-Gutierrez, Baldwin and others on the “Rust” set on the time of the capturing are cooperating with the investigation.
