Perhaps you’re right, Amy.

As to his daughter?

I don’t know the full context of their argument but I seem to remember it had to do with her mother, not an angel by any stretch of the imagination, and a child driving a truck through the discord between her divorced parents…which happens all too readily.

I don’t know what his daughter said to him. What the lead up to the ultimate incendiary phone message really was…not the duration and history. However, the obscenities and shaming was way over the top.

I wonder however about who released that information? And why? It had parental custody stratagem written all over it. Sure, a 12 year old has the desire and acumen to contact the press and get that recording of her dad berating her out there. That’ll fix him.

Anyway, as to Rust, not sure what role he played as one of the producers…in many cases its financial not logistical, that’s why there’s so many co and associate producers when the final credits roll.

However, that does not give him an out…I don’t want to give anyone who tried to make an extra dollar off the backs of over-extended and poorly treated workers an out, especially when it very well may have led to this horrific death…two hours of travel time on top of a 12–14 hour day?

And for sure that level of fatigue was the case. Sleep-deprived people make mistakes.

He’d have had to be deaf and blind to not see the lack of morale on set. Hell, who are these people again? Where did the others go?

Nope, he knew.

IOW we’re not that far apart. I just don’t think you needed all that extra ammunition (horrid pun)…you made you points really well without it.