George Clooney reflected on losing friend Brandon Lee when discussing the Oct. 21 fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins and wounding of director Joel Souza: 'It’s a series of tragedies. But also, a lot of stupid mistakes'
“That was a series of stupid things… My cousin Miguel was going to be his best man the next week at their wedding,” said the actor-director when discussing his close relationship with Lee. “Brandon and I played ball and hung out at The Hollywood Y three days a week. We were buddies. You know, this was his big break.”
When speaking further of Lee, Clooney broke down the mistakes that led to the fatal shooting: “The first unit, low-budget probably… I don’t even remember if the guy was even a union prop guy, sent it down to a second unit, a different group of shooting, and they wanted to use the same gun so they sent the gun down there. It was the guy’s girlfriend that was the prop assistant.
Clooney said that, after the gun was sent back to first unit, “No one checks the barrel. No one notices of the six shells, one of them is missing the bullet and hands it to the first unit. They put a full load in it. The actor, which you never do with a full load, points it directly at Brandon and pulls the trigger and it’s like getting shot with a normal bullet. And killed him.”
Clooney said that because of what happened to Lee, he continues to abide by safety protocols whenever given a prop gun. “Every single time I’m handed a gun on the set … I open it, I show it to the person I’m pointing it to, I show it to the crew. Every single take, you hand it back to the armorer when you’re done and you do it again,” he said.
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