“It was really stormy and it was in hills and no real roads, it was just muddy, it was dirt path roads. He said “crew were trying to get vehicles and equipment up a steep, slippery slope next to a pretty decent drop” in gathering darkness: “I remember the fear two years later”. The third crew member on Into the Dark also remembered the night clearly and his safety concerns about filming in that weather. “Why do we have to make those calls? We’re not in a war zone, we’re on a film set,” she said. Goll said she remembered how distraught the man was when he called his father. I just want you to have this message.” He added: “But I probably won’t, I don’t deal with any electricity directly.”
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If uh, yeah, if I die, I die, man, and safety was the reason why. “Not that it’s fucking right but we’re gonna make it work. But we’re still fucking to go power through, somehow. I think it’s kind of letting up a little bit, but the fucking matches are soaked. The voicemail said, in full: “Hey man, this is fucking wild. She and a third crew member, who asked not to be named, confirmed they were aware of the voicemail being left by their co-worker, who is in his 20s, that day, 15 February 2019. “It’s still one of the most harrowing experiences I have ever had on set, and it happened to be with this shared person, the first assistant director, Dave Halls, that everything was happening, because of the kind of leadership we were under, or lack thereof,” Goll said. She also emphasised that “it’s in no way one person’s fault … it’s a bigger conversation about safety on set and what we are trying to achieve with that culture”.īut she added that Halls had pressed to continue with filming, despite the storm and the crew’s worries about the dangers of electrical lights and wires exposed to rain, puddles or mud. Maggie Goll, a prop maker and licensed pyrotechnician, who worked alongside Halls and the young crewman in 2019, said she had filed an internal complaint with the executive producers on Into the Dark over concerns about Halls’ performance. His identity, and that of his father, who has worked in Hollywood for decades, are known to the Guardian but have been withheld to protect them from potential employment retaliation.
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The crew member who spoke to the Guardian about the 2019 show is currently working on a big movie franchise. On the set of Rust he announced that a prop gun was “cold”, meaning empty of ammunition, after selecting it from several placed nearby by a colleague, without knowing it was not safe before he handed it to Baldwin, according to an affidavit filed by the Santa Fe county sheriff’s department. Halls has not responded to requests for comment. However, while Halls has come in for criticism on Rust and Into the Dark, crew complained at the weekend not only about the work style of individual but about the wider issue of whether poor pay and conditions was cultivating an unhealthy on-set culture on low-budget Hollywood productions. The first assistant director typically oversees activities on set, including safety.
He left a voicemail for his father, preserved by the family and shared with the Guardian, on which he said: “If I die, I die, man, and safety was the reason why.”ĭave Halls was the first assistant director on that set, as well as last week during filming of the western Rust in New Mexico where Baldwin mistakenly discharged a gun killing the cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
The crew member worked on the 2019 set of Into the Dark: Culture Shock, an episode of a Hulu horror franchise for TV, and during filming in California he feared the weather was so bad for an overnight, outdoor shoot that people could be electrocuted by working with live cables through a thunderstorm, or have a car accident or other mishap – and yet production was not halted.
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A crew member hired for a 2019 TV show with the same assistant director who was working alongside Alec Baldwin when a cinematographer was killed last week was so concerned about danger on the earlier project that he called his father to voice fears that he or someone else could be killed on set.
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