Three days after the shooting of Alec Baldwin having fatally affected a director of photography on the set of a western in the United States, calls multiplied on Sunday in Hollywood to ban the use of firearms on sets.
A petition on the site change.org, calling for a ban on live firearms on filming and for better working conditions for the teams, had collected more than 17,000 signatures this Sunday. “There is no excuse for something like this to happen in the 21st century,” says the text of the petition launched by Bandar Albuliwi, a screenwriter and director.
“There is an urgent need to address the problem of alarming labor rights abuses and safety violations taking place on film sets, including unnecessary high risk conditions such as the use of firearms. real ”, also pleaded Saturday in a press release, Dave Cortese, elected Democrat in the Senate of California.
In addition, the elected official confirmed his intention to “put to the vote a bill that would ban live bullets on filming in California, in order to prevent this type of senseless violence”.
For its part, the day after the drama, the successful detective series “The Rookie”, which takes place in Los Angeles, decided to ban any real weapon on its set, an effective measure immediately, according to the movie magazine The Hollywood Reporter. .