Angelina Jolie is weighing in on gun safety on movie sets.
In an interview with The Times, the 46-year-old actress explained that she is always “very careful” when working with guns.
Her comments come on the heels of a deadly incident on the western-themed film “Rust” where cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed after Alec Baldwin fired a gun, which was intended to be a prop, while filming in New Mexico in October. The film’s director, Joel Souza, was also injured.
Jolie addressed the shooting, noting: “I can’t imagine what these families are going through. At this moment, the grief and the tragedy of that accident is quite overwhelming.”
The “Tomb Raider” star has appeared in a handful of action films that require the use of many weapons.
She explained: “I’ve always been very careful because I’ve had to work with guns a lot.”
She emphasized that there are rules to checking weapons on set.
“The way I’ve worked or checked when I’m directing, there are certain procedures. You have to take it very seriously.”
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Hutchins died during a rehearsal for the film after being struck by live rounds inadvertently fired from an antique weapon as Baldiwn practiced a “quick draw” move.
The first assistant director on the film admitted that he failed to properly check the prop gun before handing it to Baldwin.
Baldwin previously spoke out about the shooting while addressing photographers in Vermont.
“She was my friend,” he said of Hutchins in the first public comments, adding that he couldn’t elaborate much more on the active investigation.
He also discussed the incident itself: “There are incidental accidents on film sets from time to time, but nothing like this. This is a one in a trillion episode, a one in a trillion event.”
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Following the incident, Dwayne Johnson pledged that all of the projects produced by his company, Seven Bucks Productions, will not use real firearms.
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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