- About a year after the gunshot killed in a western shoot with Alec Baldwin in the United States, the Hollywood star has sued members of the film crew.
- The lawsuit is directed, among other things, against the armorer and an assistant director who handed the deadly weapon to the actor, US media reported unanimously.
“Baldwin, more than anyone else on the set, was wrongly considered the cause of this tragedy,” the Los Angeles-filed document said. Baldwin accuses the defendants of negligence. The accident happened because the gun used in the shoot was loaded with real bullets. The 64-year-old is about restoring his good reputation. But he also demands compensation, wrote the New York Times.
On October 21, 2021, chief camerawoman Halyna Hutchins (42) was fatally injured while filming the low-budget western “Rust” at a film ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Baldwin, who served as lead actor and producer on the film, was holding a gun during a scene rehearsal when a shot went off. Investigations showed that the Colt had a real bullet in it – instead of blank cartridges, for example. Baldwin has always denied the blame.
Baldwin was apparently denied jobs
The armorer and assistant director were also targeted in the police investigation. Apart from these two, the actor is also suing a props maker and the responsible arms and ammunition suppliers, it was said. The Hollywood star was fired from several jobs and passed over from others because of the incident and is therefore demanding financial compensation.
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Baldwin accuses the defendants of negligence.
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The armorer’s attorney denied the allegations. “He (Baldwin) was the one who shot Halyna. It’s his fault, nobody else’s fault,” he told CNN. Baldwin’s move counterclaims a lawsuit filed by a script supervisor about a year ago against members of the film’s crew and the actor himself for failing to comply with on-set safety procedures.
The relatives of the dead camerawoman, on the other hand, settled a civil lawsuit against Baldwin and others involved in the “Rust” production out of court in October of this year. “We all believe Halyna’s death was a horrific accident,” the widower Matthew Hutchins said at the time.