'Rust' director says film's premiere is 'bittersweet'
More than three years after the fatal shooting on the set of “Rust,” the film finally made its debut Wednesday at the Camerimage Film Festival in Poland.
More than three years after the fatal shooting on the set of “Rust,” the film made its debut Wednesday at the Camerimage Film Festival in Poland.
“It’s bittersweet,” the film’s director, Joel Souza, said in an interview after the premiere. “I think we would all have preferred that the movie was finished a long time ago, that Halyna was there standing proudly talking about it."
On Oct. 21, 2021, “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed when Alec Baldwin’s prop gun fired a live round of ammunition on set. The bullet also hit Souza in the shoulder.
Baldwin was charged with one count of manslaughter, but the case was dismissed over the summer after the judge in his trial found that New Mexico prosecutors had suppressed evidence.
“It’s been so long living with the movie and everything that happened and just all the sort of ... insanity that kind of engulfed everything,” Souza said. “There is a sense of relief, I think, in this moment finally having happened.”
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