Joel Souza

Rust director Joel Souza basically said he’d rather batter himself than watch Alec Baldwin’s family reality show.

The filmmaker was unsparring while talking to The Guardian about the western, whose cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was accidentally shot and killed during the making of the film in 2021. The bullet also struck Souza, lodging itself in his shoulder.

“I wish I never wrote the damn movie.” he said of Rust, which finally had its theatrical release on Friday.

And while Souza told The Guardian he only returned to the project because Hutchins’ family wanted the film to be........

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