Actors’ job isn’t to be as knowledgeable as a firearm consultant, hence why they hire one. The same way they trust any scene has been safely planned out before hand and the giant boulder is assumed to be fake and not a real rock, and the harnesses that suspend them weren’t set up wrong so they fall and break their neck.
Those business end shots, the powder is replaced with BB’s so yes it is easy to figure out if it is real or not.
The actors should know what is in the firearm before it is handed to them and verify after. Otherwise they shouldn’t be handling said firearm.
Safety is EVERYONES responsibility.
Actors’ job isn’t to be as knowledgeable as a firearm consultant, hence why they hire one. The same way they trust any scene has been safely planned out before hand and the giant boulder is assumed to be fake and not a real rock, and the harnesses that suspend them weren’t set up wrong so they fall and break their neck.