Alec Baldwin has said there’s more to come out about the fatal shooting on the set of Rust in 2021, despite a case against the actor being dismissed in July.
On October 21, 2021, Baldwin discharged a revolver used as a prop and was unaware that it had been improperly loaded with live ammunition, resulting in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
In a 2023 trial, the 30 Rock actor was charged with involuntary manslaughter in a case which was then dropped, and was tried again in 2024 but the case was dismissed with prejudice after his attorneys revealed that the prosecution and the local sheriffs had concealed evidence.
Meanwhile, armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in March and sentenced to 18 months in prison the following month.
On Monday (December 16) Baldwin said on David Duchovny’s Fail Better podcast that “there is more to come” regarding the incident, adding: “The truth of what happened has never been told.”
He continued: “There’s more to come, 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. I was counterpunching. I was on the defensive. I was being accused. I was being indicted.”
Baldwin also said that the mainstream media “suppressed every story” that could have helped exonerate him, yet “amplified every story” that portrayed him in a negative light in the years since Hutchins’ death.
He added: “We have more shit that’s going to come out in ensuing legal filings and so forth. These last three years, people have just dined out. Because in this country, when people hate you on that level, they want three things. They want you to die.”
He went on to say that some people have continued to shun him from the industry, which he compared to “being dead because you roam the earth and you’re invisible.”
However, he said he thinks things are turning around for him, adding: “I do believe that, by the communications I’ve had lately, things are coming back my way to work. I’m happy about that because I’ve got seven kids. But I’ve also enjoyed the fact that there’s so much of this case that is not known because we didn’t have a full trial.”
Alec Baldwin listens to testimony during a pretrial hearing at the First Judicial District Courthouse on July 8, 2024 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. CREDIT: Ross D. Franklin – Pool/Getty Images
Last month, Baldwin discussed the incident at the Torino Film Festival, sharing that he doesn’t want to see the movie. He described it as “the most difficult thing I’ve ever dealt with in my life,” telling Variety of the impact it had on his wife, and revealed that he waived his fee for the film, with everything he was due to receive going to Hutchins’ husband Matt instead.
He said that he finished the movie against medical advice, explaining: “I said to Joel [Souza, Rust director], “Are you going to do it? If you think it’s important to do this, I’ll do it. If it’s the only way we can settle the case with [Hutchins’] husband and the estate is to finish the film, let’s do it.” So we go to Montana. We finish … And I waived my fee. I gave them back the fee in the budget. I waived all my backend. I gave everything to her husband.”
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