While much of the focus of the Rust accidental on-set shooting that resulted in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was on Alec Baldwin, who in January pleaded not guilty and has a trial coming up in July, the spotlight is now on the armorer. Not because she was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, but because she’s hot, naturally.



Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was sentenced to 18 months in prison and condemned by the judge for not displaying sufficient remorse. While that’s undoubtedly a blow, maybe it will be some comfort to her that men on the internet think she’s hot and should be set free on that basis.



One popular tweet accused her of only being guilty of stealing the tweeter’s heart, while someone else rebutted, “Unless you’re willing to rebel against the legal order by eliminating those who want her imprisoned and take her against her will, your words are meaningless.”



Another user described her trial as this generation’s O.J. Simpson trial “but with a PAWG” before calling for her to be freed. Her behind is the focus of much of the praise she’s receiving online, with one person joking, “we needed this information sooner, we could have saved her.”



Some tried to argue that it was a genuine injustice that she had been sentenced to serve time while Baldwin walks free, not realizing that his trial simply hasn’t happened yet; it’s scheduled to start on July 9th. Until then, he’s prohibited from possessing firearms, consuming alcohol, leaving the country or coming into contact with anyone who could testify in the case.


Again, despite being hot, Gutierrez-Reed was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter after the jury deliberated for just two hours, although she was acquitted of tampering with evidence. She received the maximum sentence of 18 months, which Hutchins’ friends and family had called for. “I beg you to impose the maximum sentence,” Jen White, a colleague of Hutchins’, told the court. “She needs to be held accountable. If prison time is the only way she will face any responsibility … it should be for as long as the law allows.”