Comments by "Roger Scott Cathey" (@rogerscottcathey) on "Watch How Alec Baldwin Gets Caught Lying To You With Body Language – What Really Happened On RUST" video.

In every movie, actors picking up a gun open it and examine the chamber or clip to insure there's rounds and probably looking to see if there's a hammer imprint . . . i.e., that they may have already been fired. I would be very surprised that on movie sets actors aren't trained, when handed a prop, functional gun or not, to look at the rounds as double insurance one is dealing with blanks or whatever. When dealing with potentially deadly weapons, who doesn't cover the basics? "Rust" isn't going to do well, if it survives at all.
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