the actor’s first words

The shooting turned into a disaster. Thursday, October 21, 2021, Alec Baldwin killed “by accident“the director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, and injured Joel Souza, the director of Rust, a new movie he was filming for in New Mexico, USA. The hot reaction of Alec Baldwin, star of this new western, was revealed by a witness whose comments were reported by the website Showbizz411, Friday October 22, 2021. The 63-year-old actor was horrified by the scene: “Why was I given a pistol with real ammunition? “, he asked the team, according to the words of a source quoted by the tabloid. The witness reports thatAlec Baldwin was “in shock but calm“. “In all my years of filming, I have never received a pistol with real ammunition”, he added.

The film’s production company and others on set then said the gun was loaded blank, not real bullets. Nonetheless, the latter indicated that non-projectile ammunition can be fatal if it hits a person in the vicinity of the weapon.

Alec Baldwin, author of a fatal shot: his first reactions

The eyewitness of the scene also reported that the ammunition in the weapon passed through the body of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and nestled in the collarbone of film director Joel Souza. Help would have arrived very quickly at the scene of the tragedy. Both victims were taken to hospital. The director of photography died during the helicopter ride as reported by AFP. To guard against such a drama, “safety meetings“had been organized “everyday”, again indicates the source about this film which was produced for less than 6 million dollars.

According to several corroborating sources, the shooting was immediately interrupted. In the afternoon of Thursday, October 21, “Mr. Baldwin was questioned by police”, Santa Fe Sheriff’s spokesperson told AFP. For the moment, no legal action has been taken against the star of Pearl Harbor and Mission Impossible: Fallout.