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Alec Baldwin feared Donald Trump supporters would kill him over Rust shooting-Rishma Dosani-Entertainment – Metro
‘There is just this torrent of people attacking me.’
Alec Baldwin has spoken out over the Rust shooting in a new interview (Picture: Getty)
Alec Baldwin feared for his own life after Donald Trump’s comments over the Rust shooting.
The 30 Rock actor was holding a gun on the set of Rust when it misfired last October, fatally shooting cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza.
The 64-year-old has maintained that he believed he was holding a cold gun, insisting that he wasn’t to blame for Hutchins death – but suggested that ‘every single person’ on the New Mexico set knows ‘exactly who to blame’.
Speaking in a new interview, he slammed the former US President for his comments discussing the ordeal, claiming that Trump had incited his supporters to come after him – following the January 6 Capitol riot which left seven dead, and hundreds more injured.
‘The former President said, “He probably shot her on purpose”. To me [that] was really the only time that I was worried about what was going to happen,’ he explained.
‘Here was Trump, who instructed people to commit acts of violence, and he was pointing the finger at me and saying I was responsible for the death.
Donald Trump previously made comments regarding Hutchins’ death (Picture: Rex)
‘1000% I’m nervous that a bunch of people who were instructed by the former President to go to the Capitol and they killed a law enforcement officer, they killed somebody… You don’t think I’m thinking to myself, “Are some of those people going to come and kill me?”’
Baldwin also revealed the impact that the shooting had on him, telling CNN that the stress had ‘taken years off my life’.
‘There is just this torrent of people attacking me who don’t know the facts,’ he added.
‘If I didn’t have my wife, I don’t know where I would be right now … If I didn’t have her, I probably would have quit, retired, gone off, you know sold everything I owned, got a house in the middle of nowhere and just you know did find something else to do, sell real estate.’
Halyna Hutchins died over her injuries after the ordeal (Picture: Getty)
The Hollywood star recently spoke out over the ongoing investigation into Hutchins’ death, after a report from the FBI stated that the weapon’s trigger needed to have been pulled for it to have been discharged.
‘I know that every single person on the set of the film knows what happened, and the people who are talking loudest about what happened or speculating about what happened were not on the set of the film,’ he said on The Chris Cuomo Project.
‘They talk on and on and on about what if this and what if that and have dined out on this and the thing that they have in common is nobody was there,’ he continued, naming some media outlets.
Baldwin insisted that everyone on set ‘knows who is to blame’ (Picture: Getty)
‘Everybody who was there, they know exactly what happened. They know exactly who’s to blame.’
Discussing the FBI report, which stated that the prop weapon ‘could not be made to fire without a pull of the trigger’, Baldwin said that a bullet could be fired without the trigger being pulled through a process called ‘fanning’.
‘This did not come from me, this came from the DA’s Office themselves,’ he added.
‘If you pull the hammer back, and you don’t lock the hammer; if you pull the hammer back pretty far – in old Western movies you’d see someone fan the hammer of the gun.
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‘The hammer didn’t lock. You pulled it back to an extent where it would fire the bullet without you pulling the trigger, without you locking the hammer.’
A six-month investigation previously found the film’s production company ‘knew that firearm safety procedures were not being followed on set’ and ‘demonstrated plain indifference to employee safety’.
Rust Movie Productions was fined $136,793, the maximum allowable by state law in New Mexico.
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