‘Rust’ Script Supervisor Sues Baldwin: ‘I Feel Like At Any Moment Anything Could Happen To Me And To Those That I Care About’

The script supervisor for the film “Rust,” who was standing near the film’s director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, when she was shot by actor-producer Alec Baldwin, has filed a lawsuit against Baldwin and other producers of the film.

Mamie Mitchell, a 40-year veteran in films who was the first person to call 911 after Hutchins was shot, announced the lawsuit on Wednesday. She stated: “I saw Alec going through his movement with the gun for the camera. I was holding my script in my left hand and had taken out my iPhone and opened up my photos to check the continuity on his shirt and vest. Then an explosion; deafening, loud gunshot. I was stunned: I heard someone moaning and I turned around and my director was falling backwards and holding his upper body and I turned around toward Alec and I saw Halyna going down to the left of me.”

“I ran outside and called 911 for help,” she continued. “We waited and eventually they brought Halyna out to the ambulance waiting outside the door. She was on a stretcher and not moving. They had some kind of large oxygen balloon thing on her face and her left hand was on her stomach; it was blue.”

She recalled, “I could not believe this was happening. I gave my statement to law enforcement and drove home. Ten minutes after I got home someone notified me that she was dead. I stood in my driveway screaming.”

She concluded:

I’ll never forget what happened on the set of “Rust” that day. I relive the shooting and the sound of the explosion from the gun over and over again. I’m depressed; I don’t feel safe; I feel like at any moment anything could happen to me and to those that I care about that are standing close to me. I don’t have a sense of guard rails in my life to keep me safe; I’m frightened of the future; this violent tragedy has taken away the joy in my life.

The lawsuit states:

Every safety protocol designed to ensure that firearms would be safely used were ignored, and actions that were taken were against all industry norms including, without limitation, as follows:

Live ammunition was allowed onto the set despite the fact that live ammunition is never to be used nor brought onto any studio lot or stage Alec Baldwin, intentionally, without just cause or excuse, cocked and fired the loaded gun