Dwayne Johnson told Variety that his production company Seven Bucks Productions will no longer use real guns on any of its productions in response to the fatal shooting of the cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film "Rust."
"First of all, I was heartbroken. We lost a life. My heart goes out to her family and everybody on set. I've known Alec, too, for a very long time," said Johnson, who spoke to the publication at the premiere of his new Netflix spy caper "Red Notice."
"I can't speak for anyone else, but I can tell you, without an absence of clarity here, that any movie that we have moving forward with Seven Bucks Productions - any movie, any television show, or anything we do or produce - we won't use real guns at all," Johnson added.
The former WWE wrestler added that all of his productions will now switch over to "rubber guns" and "take care" of any visual effects in post-production.
"We're not going to worry about the dollars, we won't worry about what it costs," he said.
Johnson later added that within hours of the news of Hutchins's fatal shooting, he and the team at Seven Bucks Productions spoke about safety changes they would adopt on set.
"I think the most prudent thing and the smartest thing to do is just pause for a second and really re-examine how you're going to move forward and how we're going to work together," he said.
"Any movie we do that Seven Bucks does with any studio, the rule is we're not going to use real guns. That's it."
Seven Bucks Productions, which Johnson founded with his former wife and longtime business partner Dany Garcia, has produced several of the actor's big-budget films such as 2017's "Baywatch," 2018's "Rampage," and the Fast and Furious spin-off "Hobbs and Shaw."
Johnson is one of the first A-List Hollywood producers to publicly discuss safety changes they are adopting following the fatal shooting on the set of "Rust." Earlier this week, Deadline reported that Matthew Hutchins, the husband of Halyna Hutchins, has hired the L.A.-based law firm Panish Shea Boyle Ravipudi, which specializes in personal injury and wrongful death litigations.
Halyna Hutchins, who was the cinematographer on "Rust," was shot on October 21 after the actor Alec Baldwin discharged a gun on set during rehearsals. Authorities have said the gun Baldwin discharged held live rounds.