‘That was no good. That was no good at all’: Halyna Hutchins’ final words after being shot on Rust set as she lay dying in electrician’s arms
- ‘That was no good. That was no good at all,’ the 42-year-old mother-of-two said seconds after she was fatally shot by Alec Baldwin on the Santa Fe film set
- ‘What the f**k just happened?’ Baldwin reportedly asked cast and crew members after the shot went off
- ‘I can’t feel my legs,’ Hutchins told the film’s head electrician Serge Svetnoy, who held her after she fell backward
- ‘What the f**k was that? That burns!’ shouted director Joel Souza, who was also hit by the wayward bullet – which was not supposed to be in the gun
The haunting final words of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins as she laid dying on a Santa Fe film set have been revealed.
‘That was no good. That was no good at all,’ the 42-year-old mother-of-two said seconds after she was fatally shot by Alec Baldwin on the set of indie Western Rust on October 21 before succumbing to her injuries.
Hutchins’ last words came after lead actor Baldwin discharged a prop Colt .45 revolver that was supposed to be loaded with blanks but contained live ammunition, and were reported Sunday by The Los Angeles Times after a slew of interviews with cast and crew.
‘That was no good. That was no good at all,’ the 42-year-old mother-of-two said seconds after she was fatally shot by Alec Baldwin on the set of indie Western Rust on October 21 before succumbing to her injuries
Serge Svetnoy has described the harrowing moment he held Halyna Hutchins in his arms after she was accidentally shot by Alec Baldwin
‘What the f**k just happened?’ Baldwin reportedly asked cast and crew members after the shot went off, and Hutchins suddenly stumbled back into head electrician Serge Svetnoy’s arms
Alec Baldwin, 63, and his wife, Hilaria, 37, celebrated Halloween with their six children on Sunday days after Halyna Hutchin’s death on the Rust movie set
The gun that killed the cinematographer on the set of Alec Baldwin’s Rust had been used for target practice by crew members, sources linked to the western film’s production said.
Multiple sources connected to the set of Rust told TMZ that the same Colt pistol that went off in Alec Baldwin’s hands, killing Halyna Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza, had been used recreationally by crew members.
The sources claim that some crew members would go off for target practice using real bullets, and some believe a live round from those practice sessions found its way onto the set.
Another source told TMZ that live ammo and blanks were being stored in the same area on set, offering another possible explanation as to how a bullet was fired from Baldwin’s Colt.
A search warrant released Friday said that Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, 24, had laid out three prop guns on a cart outside the filming location, and first assistant director Dave Halls grabbed the Colt from the cart and brought it inside to Baldwin, unaware that it was loaded with live rounds.
‘Cold gun!’ shouted Halls before handing the gun to Baldwin, using the phrase to signal to cast and crew that the gun was safe to fire for the scene, the warrant said.
Seconds later, filming a scene inside an Old West-style church, Baldwin apparently aimed towards the camera and pulled the trigger, accidentally killing Hutchins as she filmed him, and injuring Souza, who stood behind her.
Two production sources who previously worked with Gutierrez-Reed said this was not the first time she was involved in an incident on a movie set.
The two sources told The Daily Beast that Hannah Gutierrez-Reed had allegedly given an 11-year-old actress a gun without checking it properly while on the set of the Nicholas Cage film, The Old Way.
‘There were a couple times she was loading the blanks and doing it in a fashion that we thought was unsafe,’ one of the sources said.
‘She was a bit careless with the guns, waving it around every now and again.’
Sources on the Rust set have said the fatal incident that killed Hutchins, 42, and injured Souza, 48, was a result of production failings from top to bottom.
They added that assistant director Halls, who handed the gun to Baldwin and told him it was safe, should have checked the weapon.
‘He’s supposed to be our last line of defense and he failed us,’ one of the sources on set said. ‘He’s the last person that’s supposed to look at that firearm.’
A Rust production source told The Daily Beast that there were at least two previous incidents of guns being accidentally discharged by other crewmember on set before Thursday’s tragic incident.
The source described Gutierrez-Reed as ‘inexperienced and green.’
‘What the f**k just happened?’ Baldwin reportedly asked cast and crew members after the shot went off, and Hutchins suddenly stumbled back into head electrician Serge Svetnoy’s arms and Director Joel Souza also hit the deck.
The actor, perplexed by the incident, had been prepping for a scene that involved him drawing and firing the prop gun.
The actor then drew the gun – which he had been assured was safe to use by the film’s first assistant director, David Halls, being told it was a ‘cold gun’ – and fired.
However, instead of a harmless blank, a live bullet flew out the barrel of the firearm, fatally striking Hutchins in the chest, and exiting her body to also pierce Souza.
‘What the f— was that? That burns!’ the director reportedly screamed during the ensuing confusion.
Baldwin, shocked, then proceeded to put the gun down, cast members revealed, and looked at his two savaged colleagues.
‘What the f**k just happened?’ the actor repeated again.
Then, pandemonium ensued.
‘Medic!’ someone on the set screamed, The Times Reported, as staffers gathered around Hutchins, who was carefully set to the ground by Svetnoy and was bleeding profusely from her chest.
‘I can’t feel my legs,’ the cinematographer told Svetnoy.
Cast and crew members struggled to stop the bleeding.
At this point, the Times reveals, Hutchins, still conscious at the time, looked up at one of the staffers trying to save her, a boom operator.
‘Oh, that was no good,’ the sound guy said, taking in the severity of his colleague’s injury.
‘No,’ Hutchins replied, knowingly. ‘That was no good. That was no good at all.’
The cinematographer succumbed to her wounds mere hours later.
The Time’s report on Hutchins’ last words came on Sunday, October 31 – the same day Baldwin and his wife Hilaria came under scrutiny for posting a fun Halloween photo on Instagram with their six kids – days after Hutchins’ death on the Rust movie set.
In the post, Baldwin’s wife, 37, described to her nearly one million followers how ‘intense’ parenting has been for the couple, while coping with the very public situation surrounding the tragedy involving her husband.
Hilaria, however, was criticized as ‘inappropriate and tasteless’ for posting the holiday snaps – posted during a time where Hutchins’ own nine-year-old son would face his first Halloween without his mother.
‘Parenting through this has been an intense experience, to say the least,’ Hilaria wrote on Instagram Sunday.
‘Today, we rallied to give them a holiday. Last min costumes…a little hodge-podge…but they were so happy and that warmed my mama heart.’
The couple’s fun-loving family photos were released hours after a new report, also from The Times, revealed that there had been at least three other accidental gun discharges on the set in the days before Hutchins was killed.
According to The Times’ report, several crew members told the outlet that one of the three incidents involved Alec’s stunt double accidentally firing a blank after being told the gun was ‘cold’.
In another instance, a young woman working in the props department ‘actually shot herself in the foot’ with a blank, injuring herself.
What’s more, one crew member alleged that there were several incidents throughout the production, citing the fact that there was not an on-site medic present during pre-production.
‘Somebody dropped a countersink bit and it stabbed me in the hand. I had to take care of it myself and I’m still healing from it,’ a production worker shared.
Another claimed that production leaders were more concerned with their budget than the safety on set.
‘It always felt like the budget was more important than crew members,’ Lane Luper, the A-camera first assistant, told the newspaper Saturday.
‘Every thing was about the schedule and the budget.’
Luper, along with several unnamed crew, also claimed that officials did not send out safety bulletins with call sheets once filming began.
But despite the alleged lack of safety concern amongst production leaders, the crew claims Alec prioritized the well-being of his fellow cast and crew.
‘Alec was pretty concerned about safety on set,’ a camera technician said.
‘He wanted to know where I would be standing when he drew his gun,’ echoed another crew member.
‘I told him I was going to be standing in a different place, and he said, “Good”.’
The weapon used by Baldwin in the incident was one of three prop guns that the film’s rookie armorer, Hanna Gutierrez Reed, 24, had set up outside the set location on a gray cart that was left unattended for hours, a search warrant enacted by Santa Fe police revealed.
According to search warrant executed by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s office last week, Gutierrez Reed was the last person to handle the gun, leaving it along with the two other revolvers unattended on the cart in the early hours of October 21.
It is at this point, the insider reveals, that a group of crew members took the weapons without the director and first director’s knowledge, and forgot to unload the firearm in question.
Representatives for the production of Rust did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment on the matter, but in a previous statement issued to multiple outlets, Rust Movie Productions said: ‘The safety of our cast and crew is the top priority of Rust Productions and everyone associated with the company.’
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