Expressing “shock and sadness,” actor Alec Baldwin says he is cooperating with the police investigation into the shooting on a movie set that killed the film’s cinematographer and injured its director.
Baldwin, who is also a producer of Rust, fired the prop gun during filming on Thursday afternoon, police said.
Halyna Hutchins, the film’s director of photography, was airlifted Thursday afternoon to the University of New Mexico Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, according to authorities.
Alec Baldwin attends an event part of the Sundance Festival in 2020 in Park City, Utah.Rich Polk/Getty Images for IMDb
“There are no words to convey my shock and sadness regarding the tragic accident that took the life of Halyna Hutchins, a wife, mother, and deeply admired colleague of ours. I’m fully cooperating with the police investigation to address how this tragedy occurred and I am in touch with her husband, offering my support to him and his family,” Baldwin wrote on Twitter Friday. “My heart is broken for her husband, their son, and all who knew and loved Halyna.”
Brandon Lee and Jon-Erik Hexum both died really young on the set of a movie. But this is really not necessary to have guns on set.
