Rory Kinnear demands health and safety to be given top priority as Hollywood resumes operations in the wake of the recent writers’ and actors’ strikes in order to prevent any more lives from being jeopardised.
There have been several high-profile mishaps that have sparked concerns about the risks that actors and crew members face when filming movies and television series.
On the set of the movie Rust in 2021, actor Alec Baldwin was shooting a prop gun when a live bullet struck cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
Filming for the BBC motoring series Top Gear was halted in the UK after presenter Freddie Flintoff was hurt in a crash.
After looking into the accident, the national safety regulator for the UK, the Health and Safety Executive, announced that it would not be conducting any more investigations. A settlement was reached last month between Flintoff and the BBC.
Broad concern over inadequate safety procedures in the UK film and television industries has been reported by BBC News.
Actor Rory Kinnear, the father of Hollywood star Rory Kinnear, passed away in 1988 after being thrown from a horse while filming The Return of the Musketeers. At the time, Rory was only ten years old.
“Thoughts haven’t changed in thirty years,” he told the BBC.Many young people aspire to work in an industry they understand to be risky financially and in terms of employment, but they may not be aware of how risky the operations on set can also be.
It is necessary to address the risks associated with producing increasingly ambitious projects, according to Christopher Ross, president of the British Society of Cinematographers.
We should make an unequivocal move,” he stressed to BBC News, featuring the principal idea of the errand — catching people in a restricted space with next to no wellbeing and security limitations
You’re in a movie every minute of every day.” set you will encounter dangers that you may not have been educated about and the film industry needs to take proper responsibility for that.”
Andra Milsome is not surprised by any of Ross’s worries. Since her husband Mark was killed while filming, she has been fighting for changes to industry training programs and regulations pertaining to health and safety.
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