Alec Baldwin told ABC News that he never pulled the trigger of the gun that shot Helena Hutchins, director of photography on the set of “Rust.” “The trigger wasn’t pulled. I didn’t pull the trigger,” Baldwin said in an excerpt released Wednesday from the sit-down interview — his first since shooting October.
When asked why he pointed the gun at Hutchins and pulled the trigger when that wasn’t in the script, Baldwin said, “I would never point a gun at someone and then pull the trigger, never.”
Baldwin also said that he had no idea how a live bullet hit the Colt .45 revolver used in the scene. “Someone put a live bullet in the gun, a bullet that shouldn’t have even been on the property,” he said.
An emotional Baldwin apparently fights to tears when talking about Hutchins. “She was the one who loved everyone who worked with her, loved everyone who worked with her — and admired her,” Baldwin said, adding, “It doesn’t feel real to me.”
When asked by George Stephanopoulos if the shooting was the worst thing that ever happened to him, Baldwin said yes, “Because I look back and think, What could I have done?”
ABC is set to air the interview Thursday night. In October Hutchins was killed and director Joel Souza was injured after Baldwin discharged a weapon during a rehearsal in which officials suspected it was a live round.
The incident, which is under investigation, has sparked renewed calls for better safety practices on the sets with regard to the use of weapons.
Baldwin has said that he believes that police officers “should be present on every film/TV set that uses guns, counterfeit or otherwise” to oversee the safety of weapons.
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