Alec Baldwin goes private after defending safety on Rust set amid Halyna Hutchins investigation

Alec had protected his tweets (Picture: Rich Polk/Getty Images for IMDb)

Alec Baldwin has protected his tweets and switched his account to private amid the investigations into the shooting of Halyna Hutchins.

Baldwin discharged the gun that hit the director of photography on the Rust set two weeks ago, accidentally killing the 42-year-old and also hitting the film’s director, Joel Souza, who was later discharged from hospital.

The actor has been cooperating with detectives amid the investigation and has also defended the safety on set, most recently sharing a message from a crew member who blasted claims it was an unsafe environment in the lead up to Hutchins’ death.

However, at the time of writing, Baldwin, whose account nominally belongs to the Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation, has restricted access to his tweets.

Only those who were already following the actor, or who are approved to follow him after adding the padlock to his account, will be able to see his tweets while he remains private.

It appears he updated his privacy settings on Tuesday after sharing Terese Magpale Davis’s post slamming allegations the Rust set was ‘unsafe’ and ‘chaotic’.

The padlock was on his account (Picture: Twitter)

He shut down claims the movie crew were ‘overworked’ and had experienced ‘unsafe conditions’ on set before the fatal shooting.

Baldwin shared a screenshot of Davis’ comment on Facebook and wrote in his Instagram post: ‘Read this,’ clearly supporting her recollection.

It’s unclear what original comment Davis was replying to but she wrote: ‘I’m so sick of this narrative.

‘I worked on this movie. The story being spun of us being overworked and surrounded by unsafe, chaotic conditions is bulls**t.

Hutchins was shot on the Rust set (Picture: Sonia Recchia/Getty Images)

‘We never worked more than a 12.5 hour shoot day. That was once. Most days were under 12. The day Halyna died we had come off of a 12 hour turnaround after an 11 hour shoot day. We had (including camera) gotten off by 6:30pm.’

She continued: ‘We had just had a 56 hour weekend right before that. No one was too tired to do their jobs.

‘This is all provable by daily time sheets.’

It was previously alleged that, after crew members were told production would pay for their hotel rooms in Santa Fe near the shoot, they were later told they would have to make the 50-mile drive from Albuquerque each day.

Addressing this, Davis said: ‘The camera crew HAD hotels. They just didn’t feel they were fancy enough. NOT that they were unsafe. You can’t tell me that 6 big men felt so unsafe in their hotel but were fine sleeping in their cars in parking lots (which never happened) like they also claimed.’

Baldwin recently broke cover in Vermont, where he has been staying since the incident, to speak to photographers about his relationship with Hutchins.

He described the filmmaker as his friend and said they went for dinner with director Joel Souza, who was also injured, at the start of the shoot.

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The actor also served as producer while also starring in the film but production has been suspended and he said it’s unlikely to resume.

The police investigation into the shooting is ongoing and no charges have been filed so far.

It follows the film’s armourer’s attorneys recent claim a live round in the gun used as a prop could have been placed there as an act of ‘sabotage’.

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