“There was a chance on a billion that it happens,” said the actor about his shot that accidentally killed a director of photography, on the Western Plateau which he turned.
Le Monde with AP and AFP
The doubt still remained, but it was lifted by Alec Baldwin, actor and producer of the Film Rust: the filming of the American Western, beeed by the death of the director of photography after an accidental shot of Alec Baldwin himself Even during a repetition, will not resume.
“We were a very very welded team turning a movie together and this horrible event occurred,” said October 30, the actor who was expressing for the first time in front of television cameras from the Drama, October 21st.
In an e-mail sent to the members of the Rust filming team on the weekend following the drama, the production of the film pointed out that the work on the Western was suspended at least until the end of the ‘survey, but suggested that it could resume at some point.
“Sometimes accidents on the filming trays but nothing like it. There was a chance on a billion that it happens,” he deplored in this improvised interview at the edge of a road, and Distributed by the People TMZ string , the show accompanied by his wife Hilaria in Manchester, Vermont (Northeast).
The actor said not to know when he could work again on a plateau with weapons, and answered “No” when he was asked if the filming of Rust would resume one day.
500 cartridges found
“She was my family,” said Alec Baldwin about the victim Halyna Hutchins. He had previously expressed on Twitter her pain after The tragedy, and indicated that it cooperated with the police inquiry.
The actor said he had met Halyna Hutchins’s husband. “He is in shock, he has a 9 year old son,” he explained. We are in constant contact with him because we are very worried about his family and his child. As I said, we are waiting for impatiently that the Sheriff department tells us what their investigation has given. “
No arrest at this stage, and the investigations are continuing on the circumstances of the tragedy at the Ranch of Bonanza Creek, where Alec Baldwin turned this Western supposed to take place in the XIX e century. He manipulated a revolver, which had been presented to him as unwelmed and harmless, when the blow left, killing Halyna Hutchins, and injuring the director Joel Souza.
The Santa Fe County sheriff, Adan Mendoza, said that 500 cartridges – a mix of white bullets, dummy balls and alleged actual balls – were found when searching for the filming location of Rust.
Joel Souza, who was standing behind Hutchins, told investigators that there should never be any real bullets.
Since the accident, calls for better arms control on Hollywood trays have multiplied, a change for which Alec Baldwin has confirmed “his extreme interest”.