In an interview at the American chain ABC, he says he had “no idea” of the way a real ammunition could be on the film plate, leading to the accidental death of the Director of Photography Halylana Hutchins.
Le Monde with AFP
“Relaxation was not in a hurry … I did not hurry the relaxation.” In his first formal interview since the drama of October 21, whose entire must be broadcast Thursday, December 2nd at night by the chain American ABC, Alec Baldwin assured not to have squeezed the relaxation of the revolver he had in hand when the director of Photography Halyna Hutchins was mortally wounded by bullet on the filming of Rust, a Western of which he is also One of the producers.
During this interview with the Copressenger of “Good Morning America”, George Stephanopoulos, Alec Baldwin adds to “no idea” of the way a real ammunition could be on the movie tray, resulting in The accidental death of Halyna Hutchins. “Never would I would point a weapon on someone by pressing relaxation. Never”, does he say.
In this extract, Alec Baldwin does not give more details to explain how the revolver was able to trigger and pull the deadly bullet. The actor worked a scene where his character creates a weapon when the director of photography was touched.
The weapon in question was supposed to contain only dummy bullets. To the question of knowing as a real ammunition could be in the barrel of the Revolver, Alec Baldwin answers: “I have no idea. Someone put a real ball in a weapon. A bullet that was not not even supposed to be on the spot. “
More than 500 ammunition seized on the shoot
The police investigation continues and, if no arrest has taken place, criminal proceedings are not excluded in the event that responsibilities would be established, underlined the services of the Santa Fe Prosecutor in the State New Mexico. According to a document broadcast on Tuesday by Santa Fe Sheriff’s services, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armful of the film told the police that she had charged five dummy cartridges in the revolver just before the lunch break.
At the recovery, she had extracted the weapon of the trunk where she had placed it and added a sixth cartridge, then putting the revolver from another filming employee. Shortly after, she said he heard a detonation from the plateau. Hannah Gutierrez-Reed told investigators that she did “not really checked” the weapon because she stayed in key during lunch. She had previously stated ignoring the presence of any real ammunition on filming.
The police seized more than 500 ammunition on the filming, presented as a mixture of white cartridges, dummy cartridges and some ammunition suspected of being real. The investigators also reported possible tracks that could explain the presence of these actual ammunition, formally prohibited on filming by the rules in force in the cinema industry in the United States. One of the suppliers of the ammunition used on the filming of Rust, Seth Kenney , said he had potentially sold to the Moving Moving Film Team Assembled Artisanally – Perhaps from Recycled Elements – whose logo corresponds to that listed on the deadly cartridge.