Dwayne Johnson is pledging that all of the projects produced by his company, Seven Bucks Productions, will not use real firearms after the fatal shooting on the set of “Rust” last month.
Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died after Alec Baldwin fired a gun, which was intended to be a prop, while filming the movie in New Mexico in October. The film’s director, Joel Souza, was also injured.
On Wednesday, Johnson spoke to Variety and said that “I can’t speak for anyone else, but I can tell you, without an absence of clarity here, that any movie that we have moving forward with Seven Bucks Productions — any movie, any television show, or anything we do or produce — we won’t use real guns at all.”
He continued, noting that they plan “to switch over to rubber guns, and we’re going to take care of it in post. We’re not going to worry about the dollars; we won’t worry about what it costs.”
Johnson said that “any movie we do that Seven Bucks does with any studio, the rule is we’re not going to use real guns. That’s it.”
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After finding out about Hutchins’ death on the “Rust” set, Johnson said he spoke with his team about the safety protocols and measures on movie sets. “I think the most prudent thing and the smartest thing to do is just pause for a second and really re-examine how you’re going to move forward and how we’re going to work together.”
I was heartbroken,” he said of the accident. “We lost a life. My heart goes out to her family and everybody on set. I’ve known Alec, too, for a very long time.”
Baldwin spoke with reporters over the weekend, sharing that while he couldn’t make comments because of the ongoing investigation, “we were a very, very well-oiled crew shooting a film together, and then this horrible event happened.”
He called Hutchins' death a “one in a trillion event” and said he's “extremely interested” in limiting the use of firearms on film sets.
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