DWAYNE JOHNSON SAYS NO MORE REAL GUNS ON HIS MOVIE SETS AFTER SHOOTING ACCIDENT

Fri 05 November 2021:

After friend and fellow actor Alec Baldwin unintentionally shot and killed a cinematographer on set last month, Hollywood star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson vowed to never use real guns in his films again.

Johnson claimed he was “heartbroken” to learn of Halyna Hutchins’ death on Baldwin’s film “Rust,” and that the tragedy caused him to reconsider his company’s use of firearms during the production of films.

“We lost a life,” the popular 49-year-old actor said late Wednesday at the premier of his new Netflix film, the comedy caper “Red Notice.”

“I can’t speak for anyone else, but I can tell you, without an absence of clarity here, that any movie that we have moving forward with Seven Bucks Productions – any movie, any television show, or anything we do or produce – we won’t use real guns at all,” Johnson added.

His production company Seven Bucks Productions, will switch over to rubber guns and add all necessary firearm effects in post-production.

“We won’t worry about what it costs,” he said.

Last month, Hutchins died on a movie set in New Mexico when the prop gun Baldwin was carrying went off, striking her and director Joel Souza, who was hospitalized and released.

Seven Bucks Productions, founded by Johnson and his business partner Dany Garcia, has worked with major studios like Sony, Disney and Universal to bring major blockbusters like “Jumanji,” “Jungle Cruise” and “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw” to the big screen.

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