Alec Baldwin Says He Doesn't Feel Guilty Or Responsible For The Fatal Shooting On Set
The actor, the protagonist of an accident that ended in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, said that he was not aware of having shot him and thought that he had fainted. In addition, he assured that it was not his job to check if the revolver was loaded and that the bullet "should not have been in the building." Investigators will find out about the company that provided the weapon and ammunition, after the bailiff found blank cartridges, fake bullets and other real ones.
This Thursday, Alec Baldwin broke the silence by speaking for the first time in an interview after the fatal accident that occurred in October. This was broadcast by the ABC network and there the actor gave his vision of the events, where he detached himself from responsibility for the death of Halyna Hutchins, whom he shot during filming with a weapon that must have prop bullets.
Baldwin said he did not understand that Hutchins had been shot until several minutes later. "I thought he had passed out, the notion that there was a real bullet had not occurred to me until an hour later," he said. He even came to believe that he was having a heart attack.
The actor was very shocked during the interview, where he repeatedly broke down in tears. "The idea that someone had put a real bullet was not even possible," he asserted. Excited, he praised Hutchins assuring that she was "loved and admired" by everyone who worked with her.
In his description of the events, he insisted that he did not pull the trigger and that he simply cocked the gun while putting it in position, following instructions from the director herself during a rehearsal of camera positions for the film 'Rust'.
"I was not pointing at the camera lens, I was holding the gun where she told me, which turned out to be under her armpit ... I start to cock the gun, I'm not going to shoot and then I drop the hammer and the gun goes off," he explained. .
How that real bullet got to the gun on the set is still a mystery and the corresponding investigations that are underway aim to clarify that situation to have some certainty.
In this regard, Baldwin said that "someone put live ammunition in that gun, a bullet that should not even be in the building." And he totally detached himself from responsibility: "I can't say who he was, but it wasn't me."
EXCLUSIVE: Alec Baldwin describes his emotional state following the fatal 'Rust' set accident: "I make it through the day. And then I collapse."
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EXCLUSIVE: Alec Baldwin describes his emotional state of him following the fatal 'Rust' set accident: "I make it through the day. And then I collapse."
This week, New Mexico investigators moved forward with registering the company supplying the ammunition and weapons for the filming of the film. The objective of the police now is to clarify the origin of the ammunition that the company PDQ Arm & Prop LLC delivered.
The owner, Seth Kenny, testified before the authorities and confessed that he remembered a shipment that “caught his attention” because it was labeled differently. Last month, the Santa Fe town sheriff said they found 500 rounds of ammunition in the study, including real bullets mixed with blank and fake bullets.
Meanwhile, Mamie Mitchell - script supervisor - and Serge Svetnoy - head of lighting - filed lawsuits against Baldwin, who is also the film's producer, and other members for putting employees' safety at risk.
