It was another day on the set of Rust, the film starring Ale Baldwin in New Mexico when the actor fired a prop weapon, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, and wounding director Joel Souza, 48. years. In fact, there is an ongoing investigation. “According to investigators, it appears that the scene being filmed contemplated the use of a prop gun when it was fired. Detectives are investigating how and what type of projectile was fired," police said.
Unfortunately, it is not the first time that an incident of this type has happened. Bruce Lee's son, Brandon, was similarly killed on the set of The Crow in 1993 when he was shot with a gun that had real bullets, not blanks.
In Argentina, on July 29, 1992, the actor César Pierry, the protagonist along with Fernando Lupiz of Ladies' Detective, died. The artist was only 37 years old when recording My Impossible Partner, and a smoke grenade exploded in his hand causing serious injuries. After 19 days hospitalized and four interventions, the last one lasting more than seven hours, the actor passed away. At that time, various hypotheses were considered that referred to an error in the medication and an excess in anesthesia, but nothing was proven.
On other occasions due to the demands of the director to make the scenes more real, or simply accidents that can occur in any setting, the actors suffered serious traumatism that had to be hospitalized.
One of the most emblematic cases is that of Malcolm McDowell, who became famous for playing Alex in A Clockwork Orange, the film directed by Stanley Kubrick that was released in 1971 but took years to reach Argentina. The British actor did not have a good time during filming and suffered almost as much as his character made his victims suffer.
One of the most famous scenes in film history is the one in which Alex undergoes the ferocious Ludovico treatment: he is forced to watch violent images while he listens to Beethoven music, for which his eyes are held open with a machine. The scene was so real that the doctor accompanying the character was not an actor but an oculist who had to take care of moistening the actor's eyes. Despite that, one of McDowell's corneas was damaged and the artist was temporarily blinded.
In another scene, the character meets his former friends, now policemen, who decide to punish him by drowning him in a water tank. The take had to last long enough to make it believable, which is why the actor had an oxygen tube, only it was never activated and he almost drowned for real. In another passage of the film, the character is humiliated on stage. The kicks he received were so real that McDowell ended the scene with several cracked ribs. As if that were not enough, phobic of reptiles, the actor had to carry the pet of his alter ego in fiction, a snake.
Two years ago and 34 after the premiere of the film, Sylvester Stallone revealed that although his character was victorious, he had to be hospitalized after his fight with Iván Drago (Dolph Lundgren) in the fourth installment of Rocky. "I said, 'Why don't we do it? He's just trying to knock me out. Really hit me as hard as you can. And after that stupid thing, I told him, the next thing I knew I was on a low-altitude plane to go to the emergency room, where I ended up in intensive care for four days with a bunch of nuns around me," He also said. Rambo's protagonist.
