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- culture
- December 9, 2021
Alec Baldwin comments on 'Rust' set rumors
Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot on set in October.
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During a \"Rust\" rehearsal on Oct. 21, Baldwin, 63, was holding an antique Colt .45 revolver, when a live bullet discharged, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza. The actor told ABC News that the film’s first assistant director, Dave Halls, handed him the prop gun, noting, \"This is a cold gun\" -- a phrase used on sets to indicate that a weapon is empty or loaded with a \"dummy\" round. Lisa Torraco, a lawyer for Halls, has said that Halls was not responsible for checking the gun, nor would she confirm whether Halls handed it to Baldwin.
Halls told investigators in a sworn affidavit that Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the film’s 24-year-old armorer and prop master, opened the firearm used by Baldwin, but he could only remember seeing \"three rounds\" and that \"he should have checked all of them, but didn't.\" Halls also told investigators he didn't know there were any live rounds in the firearm he gave to Baldwin, according to the affidavit.
Baldwin said he needed to cock the gun to get the shot required for the film, but not fire it.
\"The trigger wasn't pulled. I didn't pull the trigger,\" he said.
\"I cock the gun. I go, ‘Can you see that? Can you see that? Can you see that?’\" he said. \"And then I let go of the hammer of the gun, and the gun goes off. I let go of the hammer of the gun, the gun goes off.\"
Torraco corroborated Baldwin’s account to ABC News, noting that Halls told her, \"The entire time Baldwin had his finger outside the trigger guard parallel to the barrel … Alec did not pull that trigger.\"
Since the incident, Baldwin has been named in two civil lawsuits, including one that accused him of \"playing Russian roulette\" by pointing the gun toward Hutchins. Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies also told ABC News that criminal charges regarding the incident were \"on the table,\" though Baldwin said he'd heard \"it's highly unlikely that I would be charged with anything criminally.\"
Now, he's consumed by what happened and \"can't imagine\" making a movie with guns in it again.
\"I have dreams about this constantly now,\" Baldwin said. \"I go through my day, and I make it through the day. Then I collapse at the end of the day. Emotionally, I collapse.\"
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