New Mexico prosecutors plan to recharge Alec Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter over a fatal on-set shooting in October 2021.
The prosecutors dismissed charges against the Emmy award-winning actor in April, just two weeks before his trial was due to start.
But “additional facts” merit bringing the case again before a grand jury next month, they said.
This is a movie set where guns are part of the movie. What I don’t understand is how there were any real guns with real bullets allowed anywhere on set. Prop guns exist ffs.
There is a lot to do with how guns actuate and how people react to the gun kicking and the sounds from blanks. Most movies use real guns and blanks.
Imagine holding a fake gun and making pew pew noises. I don’t care how good of an actor you are, you cannot make the gun move realistically.
I could never point a realistic weapon at someone and fire without first checking the bullets for myself. Every single time. Human life is more valuable than any job.
Once you’ve done it a hundred times, I bet you’d get lax. It’s human nature. That’s why we don’t leave it to actors and employee armorers specifically for this purpose.