How the Rust disaster unfolded

In October 2021, the director Joel Souza was in rehearsals for his western Rust when a gun being held by its star, Alec Baldwin, accidentally went off.

It should have been loaded with blanks, but a live round had found its way into the chamber. The film's cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, was killed, and Souza was hit in the shoulder.

He had hired Hutchins, he told Ryan Gilbey in The Guardian, having specifically sought out a woman for the film. "Somebody told me, 'Women can't shoot westerns.' And I thought...