“Rust” filmmaker Joel Souza finally broke his silence and spoke out publicly for the first time since the 2021 fatal shooting on the New Mexico set that left cinematographer Halyna Hutchins dead and him injured.
Speaking to Vanity Fair, the 51-year-old director said that the shooting “ruined” the man he was as he recalled how it felt to be shot that day on the western film set where a gun Alec Baldwin was holding discharged a bullet that hit Hutchins and Souza during rehearsals. Baldwin has always maintained that there was “no trigger pull.”
The filmmaker said that being shot “felt like a horse kicked me in the shoulder or someone hit me with a bat. The whole right side of my body went numb, completely numb, but it also hurt excruciatingly at the same time, if that makes sense.”
Joel Souza, the ‘Rust’ director who Alec Baldwin shot during a rehearsal of a scene, is…
