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Salon
Less than 24 hours after a tragic New Mexico film set accident involving Alec Baldwin claimed the life of a cinematographer and injured the movie’s director, Republicans were already making light of the incident and cracking jokes about Baldwin, a longtime right-wing boogeyman.
The A-lister was reportedly rehearsing for a scene in the western, “Rust,” when he fired a prop gun that was loaded with a “live single round.” The shot killed the film’s 42-year-old director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, and injured director Joel Souza, 48, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 44 said in an email to its members.
Just hours after news of the incident broke, Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance was already online and gloating about the situation.
“Dear @jack,” he wrote, tagging Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. “Let Trump back on. We need Alec Baldwin tweets.”
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Carl Sagan
Article URL : https://www.salon.com/2021/10/22/rush-to-make-fun-of-alec-baldwin-in-wake-of-tragic-film-set-accident/