Vigils held for Halyna Hutchins as US police probe Alec Baldwin shooting
- Some people in the crowd at a vigil in Albuquerque held signs that read ‘Safety on Set’
- Hutchins was killed on the film set of ‘Rust’ after Baldwin fired a gun he was told was safe to use
The crew was setting up a difficult shot during filming on the New Mexico set of Rust, and the movie’s cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, wasn’t quite satisfied.
She turned to Lane Luper, a member of the camera crew, who suggested some adjustments that she found worked perfectly. That kind of collaborative spirit, Luper said at a candlelight vigil on Saturday, was what made Hutchins such a joy to work with.
“Her photography was beautiful, and every day, everybody on the camera team was proud to be there for her, because we were proud of what we were creating – what she was creating,” he told the crowd, two days after Hutchins was killed in an accident when actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on set.
Luper said he would have been lucky to work with her again. “And I don’t get to. And it sucks,” he said, breaking into tears.
While organisers emphasised that the vigil in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was to honour Hutchins’ memory, rather than focus on her death, some in the crowd held signs that read “Safety on Set”, a reminder that the circumstances surrounding Thursday’s shooting remain murky.