The filmmaker spoke out about the 2021 shooting in which Baldwin was holding a gun that had live ammunition that injured the director Joel Souza and killed the director of photography Halyna Hutchins.
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“I think I’m fair enough to say that the gunsmith, the guy who hands him the gun, is 90% responsible for everything that happens when it comes to that gun. But the actor is 10% responsible,” Tarantino told Bill Maher on the Club Random podcast. “The actor is 10% responsible. It’s a weapon! You are a partner in responsibility to a certain extent”.
Tarantino noted that when actors are going to handle firearms during filming, they are supposed to take a walk-through to familiarize themselves with them.
“If you followed all the steps you were supposed to follow”Tarantino said, adding: “Like the barrel is clean, they show you the barrel is clean and there’s nothing… wedged in there. They actually show you the barrel. And then they show you a version of, ‘Here are the blanks and here’s the gun. ’ Now it’s ready to go.”
Baldwin’s manslaughter trial was dismissed last month due to mishandling of evidence. The gun shop Hannah Gutierrez-Reed He is currently serving an 18-month prison sentence for manslaughter.
Maher questions why the directors couldn’t use fake guns on set and then add them in post-production.
“I guess I can add digital erections to porn movies, but who wants to watch that?” Tarantino said. “It’s exciting to film the flash-fire scenes and see the orange color, the real orange fire, not added orange fire.”.
The Kill Bill director argued that “of all the guns we’ve fired in movies, we only have two examples of people being shot on set by a gun accident. That’s a pretty good record,” referring to the shooting of Rust and the movie The Ravenwhere Brandon Lee lost his life.
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