‘Rust’ gunsmith Hannah Gutierrez-Reed called jurors ‘idiots’ in phone calls to prison, prosecutors say

Gunsmith Hannah Gutierrez-Reed from “Rust,” who in recorded phone calls from prison called the jurors who found her guilty of manslaughter “idiots” and “assholes” and complained that deliberations lasted only two hours, according to a recent prosecutor’s filing.

Those crude comments from Gutierrez-Reed were among the revelations prosecutors made before their sentencing on Monday. Gutierrez-Reed also said she wants Alec Baldwin, who held the gun used to fire the fatal shot on the film set in 2021, to go to prison as well, and that she will not testify at his upcoming criminal trial if subpoenaed.

Prosecutors Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis say those comments show why Gutierrez-Reed should not receive a conditional release, as her lawyers are seeking.

Prosecutors are seeking the maximum sentence of 18 months in prison. In the filing, they write that Gutierrez-Reed's conversations with her mother, her boyfriend and her attorney's paralegal show that she is “completely and utterly unwilling to accept responsibility for her actions.”

Gutierrez-Reed's nearly two-week criminal trial centered on her role in the filming of the “Rust” movie set in October 2021. Baldwin was holding a prop gun that fired live ammunition, killing the film's cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins. The bullet also wounded director Joel Souza.

“Hannah wants them to put Alec Baldwin in jail too,” prosecutors wrote. Gutierrez-Reed said if she is subpoenaed to Baldwin's trial, she will not appear because “she should not be subpoenaed if Baldwin has not appeared for her,” the filing states.

According to the filing, Gutierrez-Reed asked her legal team to ask Hutchins' widower and son to speak on her behalf at the sentencing. She also lamented how the shooting had negatively impacted her life and modeling career, “without ever showing any genuine remorse,” the filing said.

Prosecutors alleged that Gutierrez-Reed brought live ammunition onto the set because she failed to properly examine the “blanks” she provided for the set, and failed to check the cartridges that were later found to be live ammunition in an actor's gun belt and in Alec Baldwin's revolver.

The filing also states that Gutierrez-Reed faces another felony charge for allegedly hiding a firearm from security at a New Mexico bar and smuggling it into the establishment. The filing states: “After successfully evading bar security, she went to the bathroom and took a selfie video with the comment, 'They checked my purse, but they didn't look at my butt! Wah, wah, wah.'”

When asked for comment on the jailhouse calls uncovered by prosecutors, defense attorney Jason Bowles said Saturday, “We will most likely file a response tomorrow.”

According to prosecutors' files, the calls from prison also mention other inmates saying, “I can't believe they threw your pretty little white ass in here for nothing.” And Gutierrez-Reed likes tap water and hard prison beds and thinks “the cat food isn't so bad.”

Gutierrez-Reed also spoke about the witnesses who she said lied, saying “she didn't have to shake the dolls the whole time,” the filing states.

“Hannah says the producers should be in jail while complaining about first assistant director Dave Halls and how he 'screwed Hannah to save his own ass,'” the filing states.

During his emotional testimony in court, Halls said he should have checked the gun more thoroughly and admitted he “did not check the gun properly.”

Halls, who also served as the film's security coordinator, pleaded guilty last year to negligent use of a deadly weapon and was sentenced to six months of unsupervised probation as part of a plea agreement.

Baldwin's defense attorneys have asked the judge to drop the manslaughter charges against the actor over concerns that grand jury testimony unfairly stacked the deck against him by diverting attention from exculpatory evidence and witnesses.

Prosecutors said they offered Baldwin a “very favorable settlement,” similar to David Hall's, but withdrew the offer after learning that Baldwin wanted to accept the deal and make a documentary featuring interviews with case witnesses.

Baldwin's trial is scheduled for July.