After the fatal incident in which Baldwin was involved, he finally broke the silence on a television talk show to explain his version of events.
In October, Alec Baldwin fired a prop pistol into the camera lens, wounding cinematographer Halyn Hutchis in the US. The tragedy ended in death. Since then, the actor had not spoken, until now.
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Baldwin broke the silence exclusively with the network’s main presenter ABC, George Stephanopoulos, in an interview. Probably the most anticipated by an entire country. There, the actor told his version of events and said that he did it because he wanted to bring clarity to the fans to avoid hateful comments towards him.
One of the most shocking phrases in her interview statement was about whether she felt guilty or not. This was what he said:
“Someone is responsible for what happened but I don’t think it’s me (…) I don’t think I am responsible for what happened. If I believed it, it would have killed me. And that’s not something I say lightly”.
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Without a doubt, his words have generated debate with comments for and against. Here are ten phrases that left viewers in shock.
1. “I am not the victim. There is a victim. A woman died. My friend is hurt, because he is my friend. I want to make sure they don’t think I’m the victim. There are clearly two victims here, and it’s not me. “
2. “The first time I met her (Hatchins) I knew I had that spark, that he was going to work that day and get the shot he wanted. We talk about it. It had that intensity. We barely talked a little and got to work (…) When what happened happened and I heard her friends talk about her, I understood the quality of person she was”.
3. “That day I did the same thing that I did every day in the filming of this movie (…) They told me COLD GUN, which means no real bullet (…) This was a brand rehearsal, where she has to decide where to put the camera. She would tell me where to position the weapon. She was in front. The gun was not supposed to be fired there. I ask her if she can see how she was supposed to trigger. That’s when the gun went off. I never triggered, I would never point at someone and trigger”.
4. “That day I did the same thing I did every day in the filming of this movie (…) They told me COLD GUN, which means no real bullet (…) This was a brand rehearsal, where she has to decide where to put the camera. She would tell me where to position the weapon. She was in front. The gun was not supposed to be fired there. I ask her if she can see how she was supposed to trigger. That’s when the gun went off. I never triggered, I would never point at someone and trigger”.
5. “That day I did the same thing that I did every day in the filming of this movie (…) They told me COLD GUN, which means no real bullet (…) This was a brand rehearsal, where she has to decide where to put the camera. She would tell me where to position the weapon. She was in front. The gun was not supposed to be fired there. I ask her if she can see how she was supposed to trigger. That’s when the gun went off. I never triggered, I would never point at someone and trigger”.
6. “What I thought, is fell. I didn’t understand the notion that there was a bullet in that gun until after 45 minutes or an hour.. People did not understand if she had had a heart attack. When she fell, he fell (referring to the director of the film). And he was screaming, I was wondering what happened. They all took us to the parking lot, and she was at church. Until I was at the police station hours later, when they told me what happened ”.
7. “No one had any idea what had happened Until a cop pulled out a .45 caliber bullet and told me, this is what came out of Joel’s arm. And that’s when I started to think who could have put a bullet in that weapon ”.
8. “The husband and the son came. I didn’t know what to say to them. I have six children now with Hilaria, and I think… this child is now left without a mother. My children are fine with me until the mother comes in. There I am invisible. This child no longer has a mother. And there is nothing I can do to make it not so”.
9. “People tell me, idiot, you don’t point a gun at anyone. Of course, except that it is your cinematographer, who tells you how to do it and they tell you that it is a weapon that is unloaded. That’s exactly what happened”.
Finally, Baldwin told Stephanopoulos that he has “some ideas” of how a real bullet made it to the set of “Rust”, but that information could not be provided by him.
10. “It is not up to me to say so” and “that should be resolved by a criminal investigation.” (I)
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