Movie Star Nicolas Cage Sounds Off on Alec Baldwin’s Deadly Shooting: ‘Know How to Use a Gun’
As the film industry debates the future of guns on movie sets, actor Nicolas Cage said one of the first principles needs to be that actors know what they are doing. Cage made his comments Wednesday in an “Actors…
As the film industry debates the future of Guns on movie sets, actor Nicolas Cage said one of the first principles needs to be that actors know what they are doing.
Cage made his comments Wednesday in an “Actors Roundtable” sponsored by The Hollywood Reporter.
In October, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed on the set of Alec Baldwin’s movie, “Rust,” when she was shot after a gun Baldwin was holding fired. The gun, which was not supposed to be loaded, contained a live round.
Baldwin has claimed he was not responsible.
Cage said actors have a responsibility to know how to do the things they are portrayed as doing on film.
“I don’t want to cast blame anywhere, but I do think, and I’m not talking about anybody, but, you know, people don’t like the word movie star. We want to be humble actors. But a movie star is a bit of a different kind of presentation because you need to know how to ride a horse,” he said.
“You need to know how to fight. You’re going to do fight scenes. You need to know how to ride a motorcycle. You need to know how to use a stick shift and drive sports cars, and you do need to know how to use a gun. You do,” he said.