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Today, Explained

The Alec Baldwin shooting

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Variety’s Brent Lang explains how cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died on the Rust film set—and how the tragic shooting might catalyze positive change in the entertainment industry. Today’s show was produced by Hady Mawajdeh with help from Will Reid, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Funny thing about how the news works these days is that it comes to you no matter where

1:13.7

you are or what you're doing. Like, when you're hanging out in your couch on a Thursday

1:17.9

night at 11 o'clock and your phone buzzes and it says that Alec Baldwin accidentally

1:26.0

killed someone?

1:27.3

Well, I think obviously there's the sort of the lurid aspect that it's an Oscar-nominated

1:32.5

Emmy-winning beloved actor involved in a terrible tragedy. It's a very rare thing that

1:37.4

happens. So that's why it continues to kind of dominate the news cycle. But Brent Lang

1:43.6

is an executive editor over at Variety. If you dig a little deeper, it points to some

1:49.5

fundamental issues involving, you know, safety on film sets and television sets and some

1:56.6

larger labor problems that have been exposed in recent months and really a growing sense

2:04.1

of grievance among the grips and gaffers and camera operators and makeup artists and

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