Alec Baldwin

She wanted to see what was behind a very high up window.

So she sat on the shoulders of a tall camera department guy.

It was a superhero movie and she looks, she looked just a little bit like a superhero herself.

In my mind there's always like a spotlight on her whenever she's around everybody else.

After Arch Enemy came up, I was getting a lot of calls from people saying, can you put me in touch with Helena?

We want her.

Rust was a big break and it was an opportunity for her to just show how good she was.

Helena was very gifted and she had a vision and she knew what she wanted and she commands the room.

She would sometimes reach out and grab my arm and pull me over in front of the monitor.

that every single person here was here to create this dream, and that excitement was infectious.

Also on set, there's director Joel Souza and assistant director Dave Hulls, and also first camera assistant Lane Looper, who meets Helena for the first time on this project.

Describe that working relationship between the head of the camera department and the cinematographer of a film.

It's basically myself, the camera operators, and Helena, you know, all creating the frame.

understand each other we trust each other we have maybe same vision film sets are instant community and rust was more tight-knit than most films i've worked on very very quickly we became each other's family away from home

This is a $7.5 million movie.

It is the catering budget on a DC Comics movie, okay?

And part of the low-budget nature of this film, they were trying to do more with less, producers even combining some crew roles for people.

They were insisting upon having one person do two very important jobs, the armorer role, taking care of the guns and ammunition, and then they wanted that person to also be an assistant prop person.

And this is a Western, so there were a lot of firearms in this movie.

That's a lot of responsibility.