The more I'm learning about Hannah Gutierrez-Reed the more I'm wondering how the hell anybody let her near any kind of weapons anywhere, much less a on a movie set. It's like hiring the Trashcan Man to do your pyrotechnics. Eventually, things will go bad. Got me wondering how insurance plays a role in all this. You'd think an insurance company would like to know who the armorer on set of a movie featuring guns is going to be before providing coverage and that they would do a little bit of background on that person. Now I'm no insurance agent and know even less about insuring a movie set but if the reports about her activities on her previous film are true who would insure her?
She appears to be total goofball with TikTok vids, interview statements that don't inspire confidence, lack of experience in her on-set role/job, and a prior incident involving an 11-year-old actor and gun safety protocol. Now, there is a story emerging about how she paid off a family $50,000 to make a prior incident involving a death go away quietly.
https://www.tmz.com/2021/10/27/rust-...orcycle-crash/ There are reports that on her prior film Nicholas Cage wanted her fired for not being professional.
Think about that. According to the New York Post, Cage “walked off set screaming at Gutierrez-Reed” for allegedly firing a gun without warning twice. “Make an announcement, you just blew my f****** eardrums out!” cage yelled at her, according to the movie’s key grip’s interview with the Post. He said he told the assistant director “she needs to be let go.”
https://heavy.com/news/hannah-gutierrez-reed/ If Nick Cage is afraid to work with you...
So how did she get here? My best guess? She has a famous dad who works in the industry who is kind of a big deal.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0715715/bio She apprenticed under him, so she is implicated in his network of contacts and circle of trust in the industry. In a word, how do many get ahead in Hollywood? Nepotism.
Why wasn't she fired? Sounds like the set was mess overall and that she benefited from the halo of her famous father. So again, nepotism, is my primary guess.
My other guess is that youth-ism (give a kid a break) and gender bias may be in the mix (don't be mean to girls).
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/men-w...-gap_n_1874742 As with anything involving gender, however, it is politics all the way down and there are conflicting empirics
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/26/80926...ments-than-men Our world is complicated. In one context a pro-female bias can be elicited (i.e., sentencing at trial). In another context, anti-female bias can kick in (i.e., punishing inmates in prison).
Seeing as how we're in a moral enthusiasm where every action film claims to "finally be breaking the glass ceiling for woman" as heroes and as actress have boiler-plate feminist speeches to give at the Oscars about how far there is left to go to include women, and how there are now procedural rules getting ramped up for gender inclusion, however, if there is bias primed in this moment relative to this community, I'd say she would be more like to have a protective halo for being a young woman (as a contrast to the old white male who is in everyone's way) as this is what is on the lips and in the hearts of people in the industry.