‘Rust’ Director Joel Souza Still Doesn’t Know if Justice Was Served

It’s been more than a year since Rust wrapped filming out in Montana, where production was shifted after the deadly on-set shooting that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, shutting down production, sparking criminal investigations and tangled legal proceedings, and derailing the survivors’ lives.

Now, one of them, director and writer Joel Souza, is finally speaking out about the incident and its aftermath. In a lengthy interview with Vanity Fair that stretched over more than four hours, the filmmaker, who was shot in the shoulder, described what else was taken away from him in that instant.

“When I tell someone it ruined me, I don’t mean in the sense that people might generally think,” he said. “I don’t mean that it put my career in ruins. I mean, internally, the person I was just went away. That stopped.”

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