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Originally Posted by JMintzer
Good thing laws don't change in 30 years... PERIOD.
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The laws did change after that. That’s when the strict gun protocol came into play. The prop person or armorer brings the gun on set and show’s the Assistant Director that it’s an empty gun, they open the chamber, show him, spin the barrel, at which point the assistant director, the person on set in charge of safety, says cold gun….. None of those things happened on this show. I’ve worked on over 700 episodes of television as a director for 30 years from Blue Bloods to Sleepy Hollow, Dexter to Entourage and I’ve never, not once, not seen this protocol happen. I’m baffled at the fact that it happened and the AD admitted he hadn’t actually checked the gun before yelling cold gun and handing to an actor. I couldn’t care less about Alec Baldwin’s politics or career. If I never see him again, I wouldn’t lose sleep, if he was in something i wanted to watch , I’d watch. I’m only trying to explain the way productions work and the first AD and Armorer are to blame. I’m a member of the DGA, there’s giant thread on that calling for the assistant director to be banned from the union. Perhaps where Alec failed was not being proactive and using his set experience to notice the red flags but as a producer, it’s a credit only just like all the writers and a best friend of someone. There are only 3 (give or take) actual producers who hire and are in charge. Yet there will be 20 listed. We call them vanity credits. They mean nothing. I was a producer for 7 years on a show and couldn’t have hired or fired or made any decisions at all. They just gave me that credit to keep me around. It meant nothing.