“There are unfortunate incidents on movie sets sometimes, but nothing like this. This happens once in a trillion. Once in a trillion,” Baldwin told the American paparazzi agency BackGrid along a Vermont country road, while his wife Hilaria filmed the meeting with her smartphone. The man was described by the paparazzo in question as “lost” and “hoarse”.
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These are Baldwin’s first public statements since the fatal accident on the set of ‘Rest’ in New Mexico, in which Halyna Hutchins was killed last week. Baldwin then rehearsed a scene with a weapon he was told was safe.
“Constant contact with family”
“A woman is dead. She was my friend, she was my friend,” Baldwin said. “When I arrived in Santa Fe for the shooting, we had dinner together. We were a very, very trained crew making a movie together when this terrible event happened. I have been in constant contact with her husband ever since. We are very concerned for her family.”
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Baldwin declined to answer questions about the incident itself, as the actor said he was ordered by the police not to discuss the investigation in the press. “We anxiously await the outcome of the police investigation.” But the actor says he is open to a conversation about the end of the use of real firearms in Hollywood productions. “I am aware of that, and I am extremely interested in such a limitation,” he said.
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