After the shocking death of a camerawoman while shooting a film with Alec Baldwin, the Hollywood star appears for the first time in front of the cameras. The gun master, who is in focus, also speaks out.
Manchester / New York – Alec Baldwin and his wife Hilaria can clearly see the tension: For the first time after the death of a camerawoman on the set of his film, the Hollywood star answered questions publicly on Saturday.
“She was my friend. The day I got to Santa Fe to start filming, I took her out to dinner with Joel, the director, ”said Baldwin of the victim to paparazzi on the edge of a street in Vermont.
In the video, the actor criticized the paparazzi for following him and his family – his children were sitting in the car and crying because of it.
The gossip page “TMZ” published the video, from which numerous US media quoted. Baldwin also said he was “very interested” in the ongoing campaign to restrict guns on film sets. However, he was not allowed to comment on the investigation.
Fatal shot
In the incident during the shooting of the low-budget western “Rust” on a film ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico, chief cinematographer Halyna Hutchins (42) was fatally injured on October 21 and director Joel Souza (48) was fatally injured Shoulder hit. Baldwin (63), who is the main actor and producer in the film, had fired the gun during the rehearsal for a scene. Investigations revealed that there was a real bullet in the Colt. An assistant director admitted that he had not strictly followed the safety precautions and only incompletely checked the weapon.
The gun master, who was the focus of the investigation, also spoke up and denied allegations of negligence on the set. She had “no idea” where the live ammunition found there came from, the 24-year-old told her lawyers in a letter from which several US media quoted on Friday (local time).
Too careless on set?
The local sheriff Adan Mendoza had said with regard to the handling of weapons: “I think there was a certain carelessness on this set.” “The entire set became unsafe due to various factors, including a lack of security briefing,” the broadcaster NBC News and the Los Angeles Times quoted from the letter. This was not the gunsmith’s fault, the lawyers said.
The 24-year-old was hired for two different tasks, so it was extremely difficult for her to focus on her work as an armorer. In vain did she spend more time training the actors, maintaining the guns and preparing shooting scenes. The young woman herself was “devastated” because of the death of the camerawoman and was completely beside herself, it was said. Sheriff Mendoza told NBC News that the gun master’s statement was of little help: “It raises more questions than it gives answers.” Dpa
