I didn’t pull the trigger of the gun on the set of the movie Rust, Baldwin said
Alec Baldwin said he didn’t pull the trigger of the gun, that he handed a gun and someone declares, ‘This is a cold gun.’” “In my years on the sets of films ‘hot’ meant that there was a charge and ‘cold’ gun meant that there was nothing in there.”
Alec Baldwin stated that the gun he handled on the set of the movie “Rust” discharged after he cocked it, but that he did not pull the trigger. During the interview which was his first extensive interview since the fatal shooting occurred on Oct. 21 2021 on the set of Rust at a location near Santa Fe, NM. Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed and director Joel Souza was injured when the gun that Baldwin was using during a dress rehearsal went off.
Baldwin on recounting the incident said that he told Hutchins that “now, in this scene, I am going to cock the gun. I said, ‘Do you want to see that?’ And she responded yes. So I take the gun and I start to cock the gun. I’m not going to pull the trigger. I said, ‘Did you see that?’ she responded again, Well just cheat it down and tilt it down a little bit like that. And I cocked the gun and go, ‘Can you see that? Can you see that? And I let go of the hammer o the gun and the gun goes off.”
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