Alec Baldwin in an interview: "I did not pull the trigger, I did not fire the bullet that hit the photographer" | Israel today

Actor Alec Baldwin appeared in an unusual move for an interview with ABC on the tragic incident on the set of the film he produced, "Rust," which ended in the death of the person in charge of the filming.

This is the first time since the incident that he has appeared for an interview and explained the chain of events.

In an interview, Baldwin claimed that although the shooting occurred while holding a weapon as part of rehearsals for a violent scene, he was not the one who pulled the trigger and in fact, according to parts of the quotes published so far, he doubts there was any active action to pull the trigger.

"The trigger was not tightened.

"I did not pull the trigger," he said in an interview. "So you did not pull the trigger at all," interviewer George Stephanopoulos tapped him.

I would never aim a weapon at any person and pull the trigger in his direction. "He added that he does not know how a real bullet got to his Western set.

The incident took place as far as the set of the film was concerned, in the province of Santa Fe in Mexico, when rehearsals were being made for one of the scenes.

According to an affidavit obtained during the local sheriff's interrogation, Baldwin was given a firearm by an assistant director who told him "cold firearms" - that is, no live bullets even though the subsequent interrogation revealed that there was indeed a live bullet.

The one who was hit by the shooting is

Photographer Halina Hutchins // Photo: Reuters,

, 42, who had such a belief about the filming of the movie, and was evacuated by helicopter to a nearby hospital and then died.

Hutchins grew up in a Soviet base and after working at a British documentary film productions in Eastern Europe moved to the United States, and was considered a promising figure in American film industry. Director Joel Souza, was hit in the shoulder, was hospitalized and released on Friday.

According to what is known so far, Assistant The director who gave Baldwin the firearm took him to a cart with three firearms and it was outside the building where the scene was filmed, due to corona restrictions.What is not clear is how the strict procedures did not prevent the incident and did not create a sterile place in rehearsals depicting violent scenes.

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