JOEL SOUZA (DIRECTOR)

“Let’s take a breath and watch this movie, watch her work, appreciate her work, appreciate who she was, how she saw the world. You get to see it up on screen, how she saw the world. That’s pretty amazing.”

HALYNA’S MOTHER OLGA IN UKRAINE:

“I know that filming of the movie Rust is resuming. I wanted this to happen. Maybe some people didn’t want it. But I wanted this to happen because it was a big work of Halyna. She wanted this movie to be finished. I don’t know why, but she really wanted to finish this movie. I also wanted this to happen for Andros [Halyna’s son]. I want him to be proud of his mother. I will watch the movie. Absolutely. I want to see my daughter’s work. It’s her big work.”

OLESIA (HALYNA’S FRIEND):

“I was completely angry and not understanding, like how could this happen? But then I spoke to Halyna’s mom and hearing her say that she wants this movie to be done, and she wants Halyna’s work to be finished and go out on the screens, I felt like, you know what? Like we can’t do anything for Halyna, but we can do something for her mom.”

ACTOR JOSH HOPKINS:

“They said, ‘Matt [Hutchins – Halyna’s husband] wants it done.’ I said, ‘Look, I believe you, but I am not coming back for anything until I hear it from his mouth.’ And they put me on a Zoom with him and he said he wanted it finished and she would want it finished and for people to see her work, of course”

ANDY (NEW ARMORER):

“I wanted to do it because of Halyna, so that this show gets done safely, so everybody’s comfortable. That’s what the goal is: everybody goes home.”

RACHEL MASON:

“Everyone who knew Halyna was crushed by her death and that includes the people who worked on her last film, Rust. After being here and seeing what they went through, it became so clear to me they were just trying to finish it to honor her.”