Alec Baldwin

Most of the camera crew packed up their gear and they walked off the job.

They were making good on the threats from the night before, quitting over their concerns, which included accommodations and safety on the set.

I was as surprised as everybody else when, for the first hour and a half, there was no camera crew on set at all.

I know that that put a little bit of a strain on the whole production.

The first person I saw was Helena, and she didn't look, she wasn't her usual, you know, calm, focused, cheerful self.

She was under pressure to not look stressed, to keep everything rolling.

And shortly after that, there is a safety meeting that did address that there was gonna be, you know, gunfire happening that day.

So before lunch, there was a scene where there were some guns being used.

At the end of those scenes being done, all the guns were collected and placed back in the safe.

They broke for lunch around 12.30.

When they come back from lunch, we get word that they're going to do this little insert shot of just the gun that Helena wants pointing right at camera.

The scene wasn't supposed to have any gunfire.

The scene is the two guys are there, the other two actors who have got me cornered, and I then draw the gun, cross-draw out of my holster, pull the gun up like that, and start to cock the pistol cut.

Now comes a key moment.

Alec Baldwin hears cold gun.

That's the signal that the weapon is safe to use.

What does it mean for a gun to be declared cold?

It means nothing is going to happen when you pull the trigger besides the click.

Joey Dillon is a Hollywood armorer.

He did not work on rust.