Hollywood star Alec Baldwin speaks for the first time about killed camerawoman – Panorama

She was a friend, says the Hollywood actor. More than a week after a fatal accident on set, he publicly answers questions – and criticizes paparazzi for following him and his family.

Alec Baldwin and his wife Hilaria can clearly see the tension: For the first time after the death of a camerawoman on the set of his film, the Hollywood star answered questions publicly on Saturday. “She was my friend. The day I got to Santa Fe to start filming, I took her out to dinner with Joel, the director,” Baldwin said of the victim to paparazzi on the side of a street in the US state of Vermont.

In the video, the actor criticized the paparazzi for following him and his family – his children were sitting in the car and crying because of it. The gossip site “TMZ” published the video, from which numerous US media quoted. Baldwin also said he was “very interested” in the ongoing campaign to restrict guns on film sets. However, he was not allowed to comment on the investigation.

In the incident while filming the low-budget western “Rust” at a film ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico, chief cameraman Halyna Hutchins was fatally injured and director Joel Souza was hit in the shoulder. Baldwin, who is the main actor and producer on the film, had fired the gun during rehearsal for a scene. Investigations revealed that there was a real bullet in the Colt. An assistant director admitted that he had not strictly followed the safety precautions and only incompletely checked the weapon.

The gun master, who was the focus of the investigation, also spoke up and denied allegations of negligence on the set. She had “no idea” where the live ammunition found there came from, the 24-year-old told her lawyers in a letter from which several US media quoted on Friday (local time). Local sheriff Adan Mendoza had said about gun handling, “I think there was a certain carelessness about this set.”

The armorer now complained about unsafe working conditions. “The entire set became unsafe due to various factors, including the lack of safety briefing,” quoted NBC News and the, among others Los Angeles Times from the letter. This was not the gunsmith’s fault, the lawyers said. The 24-year-old was hired for two different tasks, so it was extremely difficult for her to focus on her work as an armorer. In vain did she spend more time training the actors, maintaining the guns and preparing shooting scenes.

The young woman herself was “devastated” because of the death of the camerawoman and was completely beside herself, it was said. Sheriff Mendoza told NBC News that the gunsmith’s statement was of little help: “It raises more questions than it gives answers.”

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