Alec Baldwin's Gun Handler Admitted She Was 'Nervous' And 'Almost Didn't Take Job' Before Fatal Accident Took Place On Set
Oct. 23 2021, Published 4:25 p.m. ET
Rust set gun handler Hannah Reed admitted in the past that she was new to the role and wasn't sure if she was ready to take the responsibilities of being Head Armorer.
During an interview in a podcast called Voices Of The West, Hannah, whose dad is a Hollywood stuntman, Thell Reed told the hosts that she had some hesitancy about taking up the role of a head gun handler on set.
"I was really nervous about it at first, and I almost didn't take the job because I wasn't sure if I was ready," she confessed. "But doing it, it went really smoothly."

The armorer also discussed assisting talents who have no experience handling firearms.
"You have to show them how to do the whole trigger thing...and how to put on their holster," she shared. "You have to teach them about the recoil because these blanks don't have regular pushback that regular bullets do."
Hannah explained that she prefers "to dummy it up as much as I can," although noting that "some people really don't want you to dummy it for some reason."

Weeks later, tragedy struck on set when Alec Baldwin was handed a prop gun reportedly containing a "live round," which killed the film's cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured the movie's director, Joel Souza.
The actor, shocked by the incident, repeatedly asked why he was handed a loaded gun.