In a lengthy interview with ABC News, actor Alec Baldwin opens up for the first time about what happened when a film photographer was shot and killed during the filming of the movie “Rust”.
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– The trigger was not pulled off. I did not pull out the weapon, he says in a taste of the interview, which the channel has published Twitter.
Here he is interviewed by George Stephanopoulos. The interview will be broadcast on ABC News at 02:00 on Friday, Norwegian time.
Filmmaker Halyna Hutchins was killed and director Joel Souza was wounded by the same bullet when Baldwin fired a prop revolver while rehearsing on a stage in late October. The revolver turned out to be incorrectly loaded with sharp ammunition.
– I would never point to anyone with a weapon and pulled off, never, Baldwin says in the interview.
–He also touches on who Hutchins was for the colleagues who worked with her.
– She was someone who was loved, liked and looked up to by everyone who worked with her, Baldwin says before he breaks down in tears and raises his hand to his face.
– What do you think happened? How could a sharp bullet be on the film set?
– I have no idea. Someone loaded the weapon with a sharp bullet, a bullet that should never have been on the property, says Baldwin.
ABC has also made a two-hour documentary about the incident during the filming.
–Searches ammunition supplier
On Tuesday, it also became clear that the police are investigating an ammunition and weapons supplier in Arizona in connection with the shooting accident.
In a emergency call said a man on the set to police that they had “one lying down” before Hutchins was transported away by helicopter.
The question the police are still working on answering is how the weapon ended up loaded with sharp ammunition. They have now been granted a search warrant to investigate the ammunition supplier PDQ Arm & Prop.
It shows legal documents VG has gained access to from a court in the county of Bernalillo in the state of New Mexico. In the search warrant, the police are asked to seize, among other things, ammunition, video and image material and documents that can shed light on what ammunition the company delivered to the set on «Rust».
Defendant by colleagues
Two of Baldwin’s colleagues from “Rust” have gone to court after the tragic incident.
The assistant director who called the emergency number is one of those who have sued Alec Baldwin and the other producers. She said the weapon that killed the cinematographer should never have been fired in the first place.
Also lighting manager Serge Svetnoy sued for what he thought were “negligent acts” on the set.
Baldwin himself has previously commented on the incident, after having been pursued by a crowd of paparazzi photographers.
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