Baldwin was holding the gun throughout a rehearsal when it went off, killing the film’s cinematographer.
LOS ANGELES (REUTERS) – Alec Baldwin says in an upcoming TV interview that he didn’t pull the set off of the gun that fired a reside bullet and killed a cinematographer on the set of the film Rust, in accordance with an excerpt launched on Wednesday (Dec 1).
Baldwin, who was holding the gun throughout a rehearsal when it went off, was talking in his first full interview concerning the Oct 21 taking pictures in New Mexico.
“Properly, the set off wasn’t pulled. I did not pull the set off,” the actor advised ABC tv journalist George Stephanopoulos, in accordance with the excerpt of the interview attributable to be broadcast on Thursday.
“So that you by no means pulled the set off?” Stephanopoulos requested Baldwin.
“No, no, no. I’d by no means level a gun at anybody and pull a set off at them. By no means,” Baldwin replied.
He added that he had no thought how a reside bullet obtained onto the set of the Western film he was making close to Santa Fe.