Alec Baldwin Vows to Reveal the Full Story Behind 'Rust' Tragedy

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Alec Baldwin has pledged to uncover the truth about the tragic incident on the set of *Rust* that claimed the life of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in October 2021. During a candid conversation with David Duchovny on the December 16 episode of *Fail Better*, the 66-year-old actor declared his determination to share what he believes has not yet come to light.  

 

"There's more to come," Baldwin said. "But the more to come is now my effort, and it's going to be undeniably a successful effort, to raise and to expose what really happened."  

 

The incident occurred when a prop gun discharged during filming, killing Hutchins, 42, and injuring director Joel Souza. Baldwin has consistently denied pulling the trigger, maintaining that the weapon fired unexpectedly. While he initially faced involuntary manslaughter charges, the case was dismissed in July 2023 after revelations that prosecutors withheld evidence from Baldwin's defense.  

 

Baldwin expressed his frustration over how the events were portrayed. "The truth of what happened has never been told," he said, criticizing the media for allegedly misrepresenting him. "The mainstream press and the tabloid press suppressed every story that could benefit me and amplified every story that could hurt me."  

 

The *30 Rock* star also reflected on the public backlash following the incident. "When people hate you on that level, they want three things," he told Duchovny. "They want you to die. They want you to go to prison. And the third thing is they want you canceled, which is like being in prison or being dead because you roam the earth and you're invisible."  

 

Baldwin credited his wife, Hilaria, for helping him through the darkest moments. "I owe my wife everything," he shared. "She is the most spiritually ascended human being I've ever met, and she was kind to me and supportive of me. She was frustrated. She was in pain. She suffered tremendously."  

Though the legal case has been dismissed, Baldwin remains resolute in his mission to bring clarity to the tragedy and its aftermath. For him, revealing the full truth is not only about clearing his name but also about ensuring the events leading up to Hutchins' death are fully understood.  

 

Based on a report by Newsweek 2024-12-20

 

 

 

[Cryingdick]

I pulled the trigger. I shot her down dead. I got off on a technicality. 

[JonnyF]

Everyone knows what happened.

 

You didn't check the gun, pointed it at a colleague (even though you weren't filming a scene) and pulled the trigger. She died. Your money, celebrity and political connections got you off.

 

I'd shut up about it if I were you. 

[hotandsticky]

1 minute ago, JonnyF said:

Everyone knows what happened.

 

You didn't check the gun, pointed it at a colleague (even though you weren't filming a scene) and pulled the trigger. She died. Your money, celebrity and political connections got you off.

 

I'd shut up about it if I were you. 

 

 

That seems like a fair summary of events.

[deadbeat]

Who cares?

[klauskunkel]

Ah yes, I can see it now: Alec Baldwin and his wife are the real victims here!

[JonnyF]

4 minutes ago, klauskunkel said:

Ah yes, I can see it now: Alec Baldwin and his wife are the real victims here!

 

Yes I'd take a wild guess that would be his angle. 

 

Him and his spendidly sultry "Spanish" wife Hilaria doing her wonderful "I am 'ilaria and I speaka da Englith with da Spanith accent" impersonation, formerly known as Hillary Thomas from Boston.

 

What a couple of weirdos. 😆

[Purdey]

People repeating what the popular media wrote seems to be what he is pointing at. 

[JingerBen]

The facts in this case are out and beyond dispute.

He is trying to rehabilitate his image.

A weasel if ever there was one.

[herfiehandbag]

2 hours ago, JonnyF said:

 

Yes I'd take a wild guess that would be his angle. 

 

Him and his spendidly sultry "Spanish" wife Hilaria doing her wonderful "I am 'ilaria and I speaka da Englith with da Spanith accent" impersonation, formerly known as Hillary Thomas from Boston.

 

What a couple of weirdos. 😆

I athumed she came from Bartheloma!

 

Does she have a hamster called Basil?

[pacovl46]

9 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Everyone knows what happened.

 

You didn't check the gun, pointed it at a colleague (even though you weren't filming a scene) and pulled the trigger. She died. Your money, celebrity and political connections got you off.

 

I'd shut up about it if I were you. 

It's not his job to check the gun because they hired an armourer specifically for that! And it was her who screwed up, hence she was sentenced and he wasn't! 

 

Having said that, him saying he didn't pull the trigger is ridiculous. I vaguely remember reading something about how its impossible that single action firearms can fire on their own unless there's a technical malfunction or you drop the gun while the hamner is cocked. He didn't drop it and if there had been a technical malfunction that would've come out immediately upon inspection of the gun, so....

[OneManShow]

I thought for movies they use only blanks 🤔that cause smoke and sound only !!! 

[Bill97]

He should be in prison 

[jchfriis]

A couple of things come to my mind here. First of all. You always check a gun, no matter who gives it to you. You hold the weapon, you are responsible. Second, why doesn’t he just reveal what he thinks happened instead of sending out a “Trailer”

[jimmybcool]

On 12/20/2024 at 7:08 AM, OneManShow said:

I thought for movies they use only blanks 🤔that cause smoke and sound only !!! 

 

They do.  Proper production controls would prevent any live ammo ever being near the set.  I mean if you look in the gun it would LOOK like it was loaded but an expert should have prepared the gun so that it could not fire an actual bullet.  This event was a bundle of FUs.

 

I hold Baldwin accountable but not as much for actually pulling the trigger as being the producer who pushed deadlines and hired someone lacking credentials to manage the guns.  And I'm pretty sure he knew the crew was playing with the guns and real ammo to kill time meaning there was real ammo there.

 

He should have done some prison time for that.  Honestly if he was producer as he was and a different actor pulled the trigger I'd still be after Baldwin.  Actors are told the gun is safe and they trust the gun guy.  They constantly point these guns at someone on camera and pull the trigger and they aren't gun experts so I'd give the shooter a pass and hang the gun guy and in this case the producer running a rushed and incompetent set.

[JonnyF]

On 12/20/2024 at 6:11 PM, pacovl46 said:

It's not his job to check the gun because they hired an armourer specifically for that! And it was her who screwed up, hence she was sentenced and he wasn't! 

 

If this had happened during the filming of a scene you might have a point. Although IMO he was still responsible as he was one of the producers who hired the armourer and this wasn't the first safety incident on the set of the movie. 

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/20/entertainment/rust-shooting-osha-report/index.html

 

But they weren't even filming a scene. He just picked up the gun, pointed it and someone to "rehearse" and pulled the trigger without checking it. There was no reason to fire the gun at that woman, loaded or not. Then he lied about it and said it just "went off" without pulling the trigger. Lucky they had some low hanging fruit to pin it on. 

 

Not content with escaping jail, he now wants to rehabilitate his image. A horrible individual. 

[pacovl46]

1 hour ago, JonnyF said:

 

If this had happened during the filming of a scene you might have a point. Although IMO he was still responsible as he was one of the producers who hired the armourer and this wasn't the first safety incident on the set of the movie. 

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/20/entertainment/rust-shooting-osha-report/index.html

 

But they weren't even filming a scene. He just picked up the gun, pointed it and someone to "rehearse" and pulled the trigger without checking it. There was no reason to fire the gun at that woman, loaded or not. Then he lied about it and said it just "went off" without pulling the trigger. Lucky they had some low hanging fruit to pin it on. 

 

Not content with escaping jail, he now wants to rehabilitate his image. A horrible individual. 

Well, the court saw it differently, hence he wasn’t convicted, while the armorer was. Also, the armorer is hired for the entire production of the film, so it doesn’t matter whether it happened during rehearsal or not, although they were filming when it did happen. Not Baldwin’s fault. 

[JonnyF]

52 minutes ago, pacovl46 said:

Well, the court saw it differently, hence he wasn’t convicted, while the armorer was.

 

Thanks for stating the obvious. OJ also wasn't convcted. I am talking about what actually happened, not what the courts found. 

 

52 minutes ago, pacovl46 said:

 

 

 

Also, the armorer is hired for the entire production of the film, so it doesn’t matter whether it happened during rehearsal or not, although they were filming when it did happen. Not Baldwin’s fault. 

 

Baldwin was part of the team who hired the armorer. There had been several complaints about gun safety previously and he ignored them.  

 

What matters is that after ignoring previous safety concerns on the set of a film that he was one of the producers, Baldwin pointed a loaded gun at someone and killed them during a rehearsal. There was no need to pull the trigger, especially having not checked it and given the previous safety issues with guns on the set.

 

He is extremely fortunate to be a free man. Yet he plays the victim.  

[candide]

It's funny how MAGAs and assimilated posters hate him! Because of his parodies of Trump? 😆

[pacovl46]

On 12/24/2024 at 4:06 AM, JonnyF said:

 

Thanks for stating the obvious. OJ also wasn't convcted. I am talking about what actually happened, not what the courts found. 

 

 

Baldwin was part of the team who hired the armorer. There had been several complaints about gun safety previously and he ignored them.  

 

What matters is that after ignoring previous safety concerns on the set of a film that he was one of the producers, Baldwin pointed a loaded gun at someone and killed them during a rehearsal. There was no need to pull the trigger, especially having not checked it and given the previous safety issues with guns on the set.

 

He is extremely fortunate to be a free man. Yet he plays the victim.  

He was explicitly told by the person who handed him the gun that it is cold! 
 

OJ was sentenced in civil court and he only got off during the criminal trial because he had good lawyers, none of which has anything to do with this case. Baldwin isn’t at fault for what happened. Case closed. 

[jimmybcool]

3 hours ago, pacovl46 said:

He was explicitly told by the person who handed him the gun that it is cold! 
 

OJ was sentenced in civil court and he only got off during the criminal trial because he had good lawyers, none of which has anything to do with this case. Baldwin isn’t at fault for what happened. Case closed. 

 

I agree the act of pulling the trigger is not his fault as they fire guns with blanks all the time and when told it is cold they believe it is safe. 

 

Problem is HE was the producer and HE hired the incompetent inexperienced armorer for the set.   So clear for actually pulling the trigger OK.  But he was partially responsible for the fact the gun wasn't properly cold. 

 

BTW OJ got off for two reasons.  One was good lawyers. The other was a jury of complete racist morons who didn't care that he did it.  Had OJ been white and not a football star no lawyers in the world would have found him not guilty. 

 

[bendejo]

His reputation for "having a strong sense of himself" precedes him.  I think he's reveling in all the attention: he's gone from coming up with publicity stunts to being pursued by the press -- nice work there buddy!

And I suspect a certain US politician demanding the full limelight will be butting heads with him.  Film at 11.

 

[pacovl46]

12 hours ago, jimmybcool said:

 

I agree the act of pulling the trigger is not his fault as they fire guns with blanks all the time and when told it is cold they believe it is safe. 

 

Problem is HE was the producer and HE hired the incompetent inexperienced armorer for the set.   So clear for actually pulling the trigger OK.  But he was partially responsible for the fact the gun wasn't properly cold. 

 

BTW OJ got off for two reasons.  One was good lawyers. The other was a jury of complete racist morons who didn't care that he did it.  Had OJ been white and not a football star no lawyers in the world would have found him not guilty. 

 

Look, you can't take care of everything yourself on a movie set. There's hundreds of people. You can't supervise everyone as a producer. That's why you hire people to do specific jobs. And usually people who work on movies are booked out months in advance. So if you fire someone there's a chance you might not find someone else right there and then and every day of delay is gonna cost you some serious money. Now, could it have been handled differently? Sure, but neither you nor I were there. So therefore neither you nor I can have an objective opinion on what went down. And again, the judge, prosecution, defense and jury, if there was one, had total insight of what happened and they came to the conclusion that he wasnt at fault, regardless of his position as a producer and YOUR opinion about it They specifically hired an armourer and she f.cked up! And that's all there is to it. 

 

If you had a construction company and you hire qualified builders and a foreman (armourer) and give them detailed instructions on your next building project and they f.ck up by skipping the rebar and the building collapses and kills someone then yes, you (Baldwin) can be held responsible because you're the owner (producer)  of the company, but are you at fault for their (armourer's) negligent behavior? F.ck no! You (Baldwin) can be held liable for compensation and damages MERELY because it's your company (production), but you sure as hell won't be the one going to prison. That's gonna be the foreman (armourer). 

 

 

12 hours ago, jimmybcool said:

 

[jimmybcool]

15 minutes ago, pacovl46 said:

 

Look, you can't take care of everything yourself on a movie set. There's hundreds of people. You can't supervise everyone as a producer. That's why you hire people to do specific jobs. And usually people who work on movies are booked out months in advance. So if you fire someone there's a chance you might not find someone else right there and then and every day of delay is gonna cost you some serious money. Now, could it have been handled differently? Sure, but neither you nor I were there. So therefore neither you nor I can have an objective opinion on what went down. And again, the judge, prosecution, defense and jury, if there was one, had total insight of what happened exactly and Baldwin wasn't prosecuted and therefore he's not at fault, regardless of his position as a producer and your opinion about it They specifically hired an armourer and she f.cked up! And that's all there is to it. 

 

I can only respond based on stories I've read.  And the stories include assertions he went cheap on safety and pushed the envelope on cost savings including an inexperienced armorer.  Based on that data I believe he is liable for the womans death.  Criminally Legally?  Apparently not. 

 

 But I bet there will be a substantial result in civil court.  And really since OJ haven't we learned criminal courts don't always get it right?

[pacovl46]

2 hours ago, jimmybcool said:

 

I can only respond based on stories I've read.  And the stories include assertions he went cheap on safety and pushed the envelope on cost savings including an inexperienced armorer.  Based on that data I believe he is liable for the womans death.  Criminally Legally?  Apparently not. 

 

 But I bet there will be a substantial result in civil court.  And really since OJ haven't we learned criminal courts don't always get it right?

Don't you think that the prosecuting parties involved had all the information you have, plus a lot more?! 

 

He's liable only because he's also a producer on that film and that's the one and only reason! But being liable and being guilty are two different things and not automatically the same! You stated that he's guilty and the court said otherwise. 

 

And yes, sometimes courts get it wrong, but just because that was the case with OJ, doesn't automatically equate to this being the case with any other case! 

 

P.S. Unexperienced arnourer? How did you get that? Gun etiquette and safety is the VERY FIRST THING they teach you when you get your gun license, looooooong before you ever become an armourer. Making sure a gun is cold before you hand it to an actor is just common sense. In other words, she wasn't inexperienced. She was grosly negligent! 

 

P.P.S. After reading up on it again, the case against Baldwin was dropped because the prosecution intentionally and deliberately withheld evidence from the defense.  So, if the prosecution had to resort to such means then it's pretty obvious that their case had no legs to begin with! 

[still kicking]

On 12/20/2024 at 1:46 PM, JonnyF said:

 

Yes I'd take a wild guess that would be his angle. 

 

Him and his spendidly sultry "Spanish" wife Hilaria doing her wonderful "I am 'ilaria and I speaka da Englith with da Spanith accent" impersonation, formerly known as Hillary Thomas from Boston.

 

What a couple of weirdos. 😆

How is your weirdo ?