Alec Baldwin Denies Pulling Trigger Of Gun That Killed Crew Member On ‘Rust’ Set

• Hutchins was killed and director Joel Souza injured in October after Baldwin discharged a weapon during a rehearsal…

EKO HOT BLOG reports that American actor, Alec Baldwin has denied pulling the trigger of the gun that shot director of photography Halyna Hutchins on the set of ‘Rust’.

“The trigger wasn’t pulled. I didn’t pull the trigger,” Baldwin said in an excerpt released on Wednesday from a sit-down interview with ABC – his first since the October shooting.

When asked why he pointed the gun at Hutchins and pulled the trigger when that wasn’t in the script, Baldwin said, “I would never point a gun at anyone and then pull the trigger, never.”

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When asked by George Stephanopoulos if the shooting was the worst thing that had ever happened to him, Baldwin said yes, “because I think back and I think, what could I have done?”

An emotional Baldwin visibly fights back tears when talking about Hutchins.

“She was someone who was loved by everyone who worked with her, liked by everyone who worked with her — and admired,” Baldwin said, adding, “it doesn’t seem real to me.”

Baldwin also said he has no idea how a live bullet got in the Colt .45 revolver he used in the scene. “Someone put a live bullet in the gun, a bullet that wasn’t even supposed to be on the property,” he said.

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