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Alec Baldwin – Reveals What Pains Him The Most About the ‘Rust’ Shooting Case
For those who aren’t well-versed in the widely report ‘Rust’ on-set accident, star Alec Baldwin was handling a prop gun when he mistakenly fired two shots. Remember what I said? Prop gun… but when the bullets were discharged, two bodies dropped. One died, and one made recovery. Who’s to blame for the freak accident? Baldwin doesn’t think it’s him, and luckily for him, the court agrees.
Following the dismissal of the manslaughter charge against him in July, the actor and soon-to-be reality TV star talked about the grueling ordeal in a new interview with Variety.
Prior to the case dismissal, his wife Hilaria hadn’t missed even a day of the trial to be by his side and support him.
“Beyond the victims themselves, the thing that most pains me is what it did to my wife. My wife has been very, very traumatized from this,” he told the outlet in the interview published on Nov. 25.
“There has been a lot of pain. When you are married to somebody and everything was going fairly well and we had seven kids … and the floor falls out. It’s very frightening and very disturbing.”
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“And we are trying to get the wind in our sails, to get away from this stuff. Because the film doesn’t stand by itself. It’s always going to be overshadowed by this,” he added.’
Alec Baldwin On What It Took Him and the Team To See the Project Through
The onset accident automatically paused the project for a long time as Alex Baldwin and some of the film’s crew were involved in legal troubles. However, after many months of uncertainty, the team finally decided to see through what they’ve already started.
“That’s sad because when we started, I put my shoulder into this the way I did, helping them to write a script and to bring all these other things. I endured multiple rises and falls with this like a soufflé: up, down, up, down, trying to find a location, to find money and stuck with this for a couple of years,” he told the outlet.
“Then we finally got it made. When we arrived on set, we were all elated. We were so happy! Like all independent films, there were a lot of time considerations, we were on a tough schedule. But we were all happy to be there, we were happy to make the film. And I am happy that the film got completed. It’s been such a tragedy, which of course we would do anything to undo,” Baldwin said.
Baldwin knows there’s a chance there could be negative fan reaction towards the project due to the unfortunate incident, but he wishes it success all the same.
“I was sent a rough cut early on, before everything got a little more sticky and difficult. So I haven’t seen the film. But, again, I hope the film is released, that it comes out. That it makes its money back for its investors. You never want these people who believed in your project to be left high and dry,” he said.
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