While he is the subject of lawsuits from the family of Haluna Hutchins, actor and producer Alec Baldwin gave himself up this Friday to CNN on this terrible accident which occurred on October 21, 2021. He who is rather silent since then, this time did not hesitate to clear himself of the death of the director of photography and to point the finger at two members of the film crew of the film Rust. For him, it is thus necessary to look at the side of the assistant director and the person in charge of the accessories. “There are two people who didn’t do what they were supposed to do”he launches thus and to continue, “I’m not sitting here saying I want them to go to jail, or I want their lives to be hell. I don’t want that, but I want everyone to know that these are the two people who are responsible for what happened.”
“His job was to look at the ammunition and put the dummy cartridge or the blank cartridge, and there weren’t supposed to be any real cartridges on the tray”, he explains regarding Hannah Gutierrez-Reed. As for David Halls, it is the person who gave him the weapon in his hands, telling him that it was “cold”, that is to say, not loaded. The two people involved said through their lawyers that it was a way to deflect blame.
An administrative complaint filed once morest the production company
CNN also explains that according to an administrative complaint filed this month by the New Mexico Office of Occupational Health and Safety once morest the production company, Gutierrez Reed told Halls to alert him to the arrival of Baldwin, so she can perform a security check on her firearm.
Gutierrez-Reed meanwhile is suing the company that supplied the guns and ammunition for the film.
In April, a report from New Mexico authorities found that the producers of the film “Rust” are responsible for failings regarding the security conditions on the set where Alec Baldwin killed the cinematographer.
