Alec Baldwin’s first interview after fatal accident: “I never pulled the trigger”

Alec Baldwin has ensured that he “never pulled the trigger” on the gun with which supposedly accidentally killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during the filming of the film ‘Rust’ last October.

“I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger, never”, the actor has declared in an advance fragment of the interview he has given to the ABC television network, which will be broadcast today.

In this preview of the interview, the actor does not provide more details on whether the gun fired by itself or describes the accident, although he does say that he could not imagine that there was live ammunition in the study. “Someone put live ammunition in that gun, a bullet that wasn’t even supposed to be in the building,” has added.

The actor, who was also a producer on the film, has broken down in tears when talking about the death of Hutchins: “It doesn’t seem real to me.”. She was someone “loved and admired by all who worked with her,” he recalled.

This is the first interview that Baldwin offers after the accident on October 21. Until now he had only spoken publicly through Twitter to communicate that he was “devastated” and collaborating with the police investigation.

Baldwin’s statements come a day after investigators from the state of New Mexico (USA) order the registration of the company that supplied the ammunition and the weapons for the filming of the film.

According to the local press, the Police are trying to find out the exact origin of the ammunition that PDQ Arm & Prop LLC, a company based in Albuquerque and whose owner, Seth Kenny, told the authorities that he remembered seeing a shipment that It “caught his eye” because it was tagged in an unusual way.

The business owner had previously worked with the father of Hannah Gutiérrez Reed, the 24-year-old hired as a weapons manager at Baldwin’s production and whose father has acknowledged that in other filming he used live ammunition for target practice.

Two weeks ago, the film’s script supervisor, Mamie Mitchell, and chief lighting officer, Serge Svetnoy, filed lawsuits against Baldwin and other members of the production for putting the safety of employees at risk.

The statements of team members who worked on the filming of ‘Rust’ describe a precarious work environment in which protests piled up and for which half a dozen employees resigned on the same day of the accident.

For his part, the bailiff of the Santa Fe town, Adan Mendoza, said last month that it had found about 500 rounds of ammunition in the study, among which there was a mixture of “blank cartridges, fake bullets and real bullets.”