Halyna Hutchins' Final Moments Are Revisited in Emotional Trailer for New “Rust” Documentary “Last Take”
The upcoming Hulu doc promises to "reveal the untold human story" of the 'Rust' cinematographer's death
Halyna Hutchins’ friend is revisiting her life and last moments in a new documentary, Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna.
“Halyna was going to shoot a film called Rust. She went out and never came back,” a voiceover begins in the official trailer for the upcoming Hulu documentary, released Wednesday, Feb. 26.
Arriving on the streamer on March 11, Last Take — which is directed by Hutchins’ friend, filmmaker Rachel Mason — will include footage of first responders arriving on the New Mexico set of the Western film in 2021 after the incident that resulted in the Rust cinematographer’s death at 42.
Baldwin, 66, was indicted last January after a gun he was holding on the set of Rust discharged in October 2021, killing Hutchins. The charge was dismissed last July after Baldwin's attorneys alleged prosecutors had buried evidence.
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Last Take: Rust and the Story of HalynaIn the trailer, firefighters arrive on the Rust set as the 911 call reporting the incident plays. “Everybody stops what they’re doing and I need the film secure,” an official tells the cast and crew at one point. “This is a crime scene.”
Bodycam footage also shows Baldwin telling officials that he was the one who held the gun, while surveillance video captured later shows the emotional moment he learned that Hutchins had died.
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Halyna Hutchins in 'Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna'The Last Take trailer also includes footage of authorities interviewing armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who was responsible for overseeing prop weapons on the Rust set. “Why would there be live ammo on set?” one official asks Gutierrez-Reed, who then replies, “I have no idea.”
She was sentenced to 18 months in prison, the maximum penalty, in April.
Elsewhere in the trailer, friends and coworkers — including Rust director Joel Souza, who was also injured in the 2021 incident — recall her emotional final moments, as well as the lead-up and fallout from her death.
“It sounded like an explosion,” one interviewee recalls in the trailer. “She looked up at me and said, ‘I can’t feel my legs,’ ” another remembers.
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Halyna Hutchins in 'Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna'"Beyond the headlines lies the real story,” text in the trailer teases as Souza declares that "what people really wanted from this is entertainment.”
With Last Take, Mason “goes beyond the public narrative to reveal the untold human story of that terrible day and all that followed — from the vantage point of the people at the center of the tragedy,” an official synopsis reads. “The film weaves together the accounts of those who were on the set of RUST that day and of those, like Mason, who not only lost a cherished friend and colleague but who are still navigating the trauma of the aftermath.”
“Rigorously reported, emotionally raw, and deeply personal,” according to the synopsis, “the film seeks to redeem the core of the story that the media exploited — that of a talented cinematographer whose life story was minimized, yet in death gave her colleagues an unexpected opportunity to heal from unimaginable loss by completing the film that mattered deeply to her.”
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The poster for 'Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna'Mason also shared an emotional message to her late friend and documentary subject ahead of the release of the official Last Take trailer on Instagram. "Halyna. I'm never going to get over your death,” she began the post.
“If you can hear me, wherever you are, I hope you know that I tried my best to help the world understand the vastness of your light, and how impossible it is to reconcile that something so terrible happened to someone as extraordinary as you,” the director continued. “It is not fair. I want to remember you like this. We were forced to share you before your time. I want the world to know you as the artist, mother, visionary, and great friend that you were to me and so many others.”
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Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna releases on Hulu on March 11.
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