
'Rust' Director Joel Souza: 'I Wish I Never Wrote The Damn Movie'
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The troubled film is set to be released in the U.S. on Friday.
The man who wrote and directed “Rust” sincerely wishes he had nothing to do with it.
“I wish I never wrote the damn movie,” Joel Souza told The Guardian, in what may be the most anguished press tour of all time ahead of the film’s U.S. release this Friday.
Souza was injured and cinematographer Halyna Hutchins killed while filming a scene for the movie in 2021, when a prop gun held by Alec Baldwin that was inadvertently loaded with live ammunition discharged.
The bullet passed through Hutchins’ chest and lodged itself in Souza’s shoulder. The injury has reduced Souza’s range of motion and flares up at times in a manner Souza compares to catching on fire.
“You think about the chain of events that started that morning. Bad decision after bad decision was made,” he said.