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Alec Baldwinwill do his first interview since he discharged a gun that killed cinematographerHalyna Hutchinsand injured directorJoel Souza, a source confirms to PEOPLE.
OnGood Morning AmericaWednesday, Stephanopoulos, 60,said the interview(recorded Tuesday afternoon) is the “most intense” he has done in his career.
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“It is so raw. I mean, as you can imagine he’s devastated. But he was also very candid, he was very forthcoming, he answered every question. He talked about Halyna Hutchins, talked about meeting with her family as well,” shared Stephanopoulos. “He went through, in detail, what happened on set that day. I have to tell you I was surprised in many places over the course of that hour and 20 minutes that we sat down yesterday.”
Baldwin’s interview with Stephanopoulos will mark the first time he has sat down for an interview since the incident occurred on Oct. 21 on location at the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The actor publicly addressed the accident twice.In a statementposted to Baldwin’s official Twitter account one day after Hutchins' death, Baldwin spoke out about the shooting for the first time, writing, “There are no words to convey my shock and sadness regarding the tragic accident that took the life of Halyna Hutchins, a wife, mother and deeply admired colleague of ours.”
“I’m fully cooperating with the police investigation to address how this tragedy occurred and I am in touch with her husband, offering my support to him and his family,” the30 Rockalum continued. “My heart is broken for her husband, their son, and all who knew and loved Halyna.”
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Shortly after the on-set shooting occurred,a source told PEOPLEthat Baldwin was struggling with what happened to Hutchins and Souza, 48. “Alec is still trying to get his head around everything that happened,” the source said. “This has been devastating. It’s been incredibly difficult.”
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“Days before the shooting there were warning signs that there were dangerous conditions related to guns on the site, a camera operator had reported two gun discharges during a rehearsal in a cabin,” Gloria Allred, Mitchell’s lawyer, told reporters viaSkyNews. “Important industry safety protocols designed to ensure firearms would be safely used were ignored and actions were taken that were against all industry norms.”
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Prior to Allred’s statement to reporters, aRustcrew memberspoke to PEOPLEabout “red flags” they saw while watching the film’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed.
“There’s a lot of times where her little cart that has her weapons — I’ve been on other shoots where they’re very safe and professional,” the crew member explained. “No one handles those weapons but the armorer and they keep them safe … She just had them on a cart, unattended sometimes where anybody could grab it, tamper with it.”
Gutierrez-Reed, 24, has since defended her work on the film. Last month, she said through her attorney Jason Bowles in a statement shared with PEOPLE that she did not think live bullets would end up on theRustset “in a million years,” and she did not know how they got there.
“Hannah Gutierrez-Reed would like to add a few points to the continuing narrative on the tragic events surrounding the shooting on theRustset,” Bowles stated. “First, Hannah was incredibly safety conscious and took her job very seriously from the moment she started on Oct. 4.”
He added, “She did firearms training for the actors as well as Mr. Baldwin, she fought for more training days and she regularly emphasized to never point a firearm at a person. Never in a million years did Hannah think that live rounds could have been in the ‘dummy’ Round box. Who put those in there and why is the central question.”
In the statement shared with PEOPLE, Bowles said Gutierrez-Reed “kept guns locked up, including throughout lunch” on the day Hutchins was shot and killed. “She instructed her department to watch the cart containing the guns when she was pulled away for her other duties or on a lunch break,” Bowles added.
source: people.com
