Dince the tragedy, “not a day goes by” without his thinking regarding it. On October 21, on the set of the film Rust which he co-produced, Alec Baldwin fatally injured cinematographer Halyna Hutchins with a revolver loaded with live ammunition. In a Christmas message spotted by our colleagues from Parisian, the actor returns once once more to the tragedy which, according to him, “will never be behind us”.
Tired, Alec Baldwin explains having received “hundreds of e-mails” from his relatives, his friends, colleagues from the Hollywood cinema of which, sometimes, he had not heard of “for a long time”, full words benevolence and prayers in the face of this “difficult situation”.
“All I care regarding is my wife and my kids and moving on with my life and trying to get through a tough time – a really tough time,” he says. “I can’t wait for some aspects of this to be behind me,” he continues, his voice hoarse. “Of course, for everyone involved, this will never be behind us because one person died so tragically. Not a day goes by that I don’t think regarding it. »
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Alec Baldwin’s phone seized by investigators
At the time of the tragedy, on a ranch in Santa Fe (New Mexico), Alec Baldwin was working on a scene with cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. The actor maintains that he never pressed the trigger of the revolver when the shot went off, saying he was content to cock the hammer. And he said in a television interview that he had “no idea” how a live bullet might have gotten onto the film set and “got into the gun”, which he had been told was harmless.
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The American police in charge of the investigation were authorized to seize the mobile phone of the actor. A warrant issued in mid-December states that “there may be evidence in the phone” relating to this case, such as messages or e-mails sent or received by Alec Baldwin concerning the production of Rust. No arrests have been made to date in this case, but criminal proceedings are not excluded in the event that responsibilities are established, the services of the Santa Fe prosecutor pointed out shortly following the tragedy.
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