Quentin Tarantino Says Alec Baldwin Is “10 Percent” Responsible For ‘Rust’ Shooting

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Quentin Tarantino, that guy who made us think dancing in diners with gangsters is normal, has stepped into the Rust set shooting drama to share his thoughts. And let me tell you, his hot takes are as spicy as his foot fetish scenes.

So, flashback to last month: Alec Baldwin, famous for his Trump impressions and now a little too famous for gun mishaps, was on trial for, well, accidentally turning the Rust set into a real-life version of Clue. Only this time, it wasnโ€™t โ€œColonel Mustard in the library with a candlestickโ€ but โ€œAlec Baldwin in the desert with a prop gun.โ€ Tragically, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins lost her life when the prop gun Alec was holding fired for real. Whoops, right?

Fast forward to the trial: in a surprise twist that would make any Tarantino script proud, the judge threw out the involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec. Why? Because of some “critical” bullet evidence. You know, the kind of evidence that suddenly shows up, like your high school crush who moved to another town but finds you on Facebook 15 years later.

Enter Quentin Tarantino, 61 years young and full of wisdom from decades of filming movies where pretty much every character carries a gun. He was chatting on Bill Maherโ€™s Club Random podcast (which sounds like the kind of place where youโ€™d accidentally walk in and find Bill Maher drinking scotch with a random assortment of celebrities). Naturally, the topic of the Rust shooting came up because, you know, what else are you going to talk about on a casual podcast?

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And what did Quentin say? Well, heโ€™s not one for subtlety. He declared that Alec is “10 percent responsible” for the shooting. Just 10 percent. Kind of like when you say youโ€™ll take “just a little slice” of cake but still eat the whole thing. Itโ€™s all about perception.

Bill Maher, in classic Maher fashion, was like, โ€œWait, how is this Alecโ€™s fault? Did he mean to shoot her, or was it just a terrible accident? If itโ€™s an accident, this whole thing is bullsโ€“t, right?โ€ (Yes, Bill, just like every argument about pineapple on pizza.)

Quentin, being the man who made us watch Uma Thurman get buried alive, calmly explained, โ€œThe armorer, the person who hands over the gun, is 90 percent responsible. But the actor? Eh, throw him 10 percent of the blame pie.โ€

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Translation: If the set was a classroom, the armorerโ€™s the kid who brought fireworks, and Alecโ€™s the one who accidentally set them off in the middle of math class. But hey, fireworks are a group effort.

Then Tarantino added the most Tarantino-esque statement of all: “It’s a gun. You are a partner in responsibility to some degree.” Yes, in Tarantino-land, even if youโ€™re the actor, youโ€™ve still got to check if your toy gun is a little too… real.

And Bill, bless his curious soul, asked the million-dollar question: โ€œSo, what do you do? Like, test it? How?โ€ Clearly, Billโ€™s the guy who tries to assemble IKEA furniture without instructions.

Quentin explained that if Alec had done what he was supposed to (which, in prop-gun-world means looking down the barrel and making sure nothingโ€™s lurking in there), this whole disaster couldโ€™ve been avoided. Who knew acting came with a side hustle as an amateur gunsmith?

But Quentin wasnโ€™t done. He said, if the gunโ€™s got three live rounds, and the actor’s supposed to go โ€œbam, bam, bam,โ€ but instead it goes โ€œbam, bamโ€ฆ wait, what the heck?,โ€ thatโ€™s a sign. A sign that you maybe should stop the scene and tell everyone, โ€œUh, guys? I think Iโ€™m still holding a hot gun here, and Iโ€™d really like to keep all my coworkers alive today.โ€

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Then, in true Tarantino form, when Bill asked why Hollywood canโ€™t just use empty prop guns and add all the bang-bang stuff in post-production, Quentin fired back with what can only be described as the most Tarantino response of all time: โ€œI guess I could add digital erections to porno, but who the hell wants to watch that?โ€

Yup, because if thereโ€™s one thing Tarantino knows better than guns, itโ€™s how to make things incredibly awkward and oddly hilarious.

Finally, Quentin concluded by saying, โ€œShooting blanks is exciting. You get that real orange fire.โ€ And, really, who wants fake orange fire when you can have a little bit of danger on set? Itโ€™s like playing with fireworks, only riskier.

In case you were wondering about the real fallout from this incident: the Rust armorer has since been sentenced to prison for involuntary manslaughter, proving once again that in the movie business, sometimes itโ€™s the guys behind the scenes who get the raw deal.

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