Rust assistant director urges industry to ‘re-evaluate practices’ after death on set

Dave Halls, who handed Alec Baldwin gun believed to contain live bullet, makes first public comments since Halyna Hutchins died

The assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin a gun believed to contain a live bullet made his first comments on Monday about the movie set shooting that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins last month.

Dave Halls, in a statement to the New York Post, did not address the details of the incident, which occurred during filming of the desert western Rust last month near Santa Fe in New Mexico but said he was shocked and saddened" at the death of Hutchins.