Just my two cents, and I absolutely am not pretending to have any experience with this. I’d assume so long as the actor isn’t negligent or grossly irresponsible they’re in the clear. Actors are not firearms experts, and training every actor to be Keanu Reeves/John Wick is super expensive. So whomever is the firearms expert, and whomever was involved with the contracting of that expert face liability.
That’s why Baldwin the actor isn’t responsible, but Baldwin as producer might be. Since as a producer he’d bear responsibility for hiring and contracting.
I think the whole firearms expert/armorer issue distracts from what I’m really trying to get at. What if this had been a knife instead of a firearm?
If an actor had stabbed someone with a real knife instead of a prop knife, would we absolve them of responsibility because they are not a knife expert?
Here is what I’m trying to get at: at what point does treating everything on set as a prop become negligent if not everything on set is a prop? Never?
Just my two cents, and I absolutely am not pretending to have any experience with this. I’d assume so long as the actor isn’t negligent or grossly irresponsible they’re in the clear. Actors are not firearms experts, and training every actor to be Keanu Reeves/John Wick is super expensive. So whomever is the firearms expert, and whomever was involved with the contracting of that expert face liability.
That’s why Baldwin the actor isn’t responsible, but Baldwin as producer might be. Since as a producer he’d bear responsibility for hiring and contracting.
I think the whole firearms expert/armorer issue distracts from what I’m really trying to get at. What if this had been a knife instead of a firearm?
If an actor had stabbed someone with a real knife instead of a prop knife, would we absolve them of responsibility because they are not a knife expert?
Here is what I’m trying to get at: at what point does treating everything on set as a prop become negligent if not everything on set is a prop? Never?
No idea why you’re getting down voted. This is exactly how I feel.