Actor Alec Baldwin mentioned he didn’t pull the set off on the gun he was holding earlier than a reside bullet struck and killed a cinematographer and injured a director on the set of “Rust,” in keeping with an excerpt from an “ABC Information” interview launched on Wednesday.
“The set off wasn’t pulled,” he mentioned within the excerpt which was shared on Twitter. “I did not pull the set off.”
Within the interview clip, Baldwin mentioned he doesn’t understand how a reside bullet wound up on the set of the Western, which was being filmed on the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Sante Fe, New Mexico.
Legislation enforcement continues to be investigating the incident, which killed Halyna Hutchins, 42, and injured Joel Souza, 48, in late October. Expenses haven’t been filed. In response to court docket paperwork, an assistant director handed a loaded weapon to Baldwin and indicated to him it was secure to make use of. A search warrant filed in a Santa Fe court docket reveals that the assistant director didn’t know the prop gun was loaded with reside rounds.
In a press release issued a day after the deadly incident, Baldwin mentioned that his “coronary heart is damaged” for Hutchins’ household.
“There aren’t any phrases to convey my shock and unhappiness concerning the tragic accident that took the lifetime of Halyna Hutchins, a spouse, mom and deeply admired colleague of ours,” he wrote on Twitter on Oct. 22. He mentioned he was cooperating with police.
The taking pictures spurred a name for added security measures and dealing situations on film units.
