Following the horrific incident in which cinematographer Halyna Hutchins lost her life after an accidental fatal gunshot from actor Alec Baldwin, the latter finally broke the silence by saying that; ‘She was [his] friend.’ The incident occurred on the set of a film, Rust, in new Mexico earlier this month, with the actor speaking to global news agency BackGrid in Vermont after he was photographed having lunch with his wife. ‘There are incidental accidents on film sets from time to time, but nothing like this’ he said. ‘This is a one-in-a-trillion episode/event.’
Baldwin, who was urged by his wife to stop speaking, allegedly said that he was setting things straight so that photographers would stop following his family and that he was ‘ordered’ by the sheriff’s department not to discuss the case. ‘A woman died. She was my friend. When I arrived in Santa Fe to start shooting, I took her to dinner’ he said. Baldwin also revealed that he was in constant contact with Hutchins’ husband and that he was very worried about the family.
Investigations alleged that there was ‘some complacency’ in how weapons were handled on the set, but it was too soon to determine if charges would be filed. County sheriff Adan Mendoza said that 500 rounds of ammunition – a mix of blanks, dummy rounds and suspected live rounds – were found. Baldwin himself said that he was told that the gun he was handed was safe. He also expressed interest in an ongoing effort to limit the use of firearms on a set.
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