After a first message posted on Twitter the day after the tragedy, Alec Baldwin spoke publicly about his fatal shot on the set of the western Rust and who killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. A terrible accident that happened on October 21, 2021 at a ranch in New Mexico. Saturday, October 30, from the state of Vermont where he retired with his wife Hilaria and their children, the 63-year-old actor and producer spoke to the paparazzi.
“Sometimes accidents happen on film sets, but nothing like that. There was a one in a trillion chance that it would happen“, he lamented in a video relayed by the American media TMZ. “She was my family“, he said about the victim Halyna Hutchins, as relayed AFP.”We were a very, very close-knit team making a movie together and this horrible event happened“, he added.
Since the accident, calls for better gun control on Hollywood sets have multiplied, a change for which Alec Baldwin has professed his “extreme interestHe said he was unable to say when he would be able to work on a set with weapons again, and indicated that the shooting of Rust, of which he is one of the producers, would not resume.