“I must not comment on anything because an investigation is underway,” the actor told cameramen and photographers during an unplanned roadside interview in Vermont. He kept repeating, “I can’t answer any questions about the investigation. I can not do it”. He just repeated that the cameraman “was my girlfriend, she was my friend.” “The day I got to Santa Fe to start filming, I took her to dinner with director Joel. We were a well-trained team that made a film together when this terrible event happened, “he said.
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According to him, similar accidents are very rare. “From time to time, an accident happens during filming, but nothing like that,” says Baldwin, adding: “This is a one-trillion-dollar event, a one-trillion-dollar event.”
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Shortly after the tragedy, Baldwin met Hutchins’ husband Matthew at a hotel in Santa Fe. “He’s overcome with grief,” Baldwin said. According to her, she is in constant contact with the family of the dead cameraman.
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Halyny’s son, nine-year-old Andros, bears the loss of his mother very hard. “Without his mother, he is completely lost,” said Andros’s grandfather Anatoly Androsovich, adding: “We do not blame Alec Baldwin.”
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The case is also being investigated by the FBI, which is currently investigating how it is possible that a shot was fired from the weapon. He interrogates up to 90 people from the film crew, said District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies.
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Whether the film Rust will be made is still in the stars. In any case, the actor will not touch the weapon in the near future. “I would very much like firearms to be used only to a limited extent on film scenes in the future.”
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On October 21, during a filming of western Rust in New Mexico, Baldwin fired a sharp ammunition from a weapon. However, he had previously been told that the weapon was not dangerous. Forty-two-year-old cinematographer Hutchins lost her life and 48-year-old director Joel Souza suffered a shoulder injury.
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