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Alec Baldwin has lost five jobs since the ‘Rust’ shooting.
He added he would have quit the film business if it wasn’t for the support of his wife Hilaria Baldwin, who is expecting their seventh child.
Baldwin, 64, said in a new interview with CNN about the tragedy, in which cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot dead on set last October-
I got fired from another job yesterday. There I was all set to go to a movie, jump on a plane… I’ve been talking with these guys for months and they told me yesterday we don’t want to do the film with you because of this.”
ALECHe added that he would have retired and quit if it were not for his wife’s support.
If I didn’t have my wife, I don’t know where I would be right now… if I didn’t have her, I probably would have quit, retired, gone off, you know sold everything I owned, got a house in the middle of nowhere and just you know did find something else to do, sell real estate.”
Baldwin told CNN that there is not a day that goes by he doesn’t think about Hutchins and what happened the day she was shot last October.
He added that if he returns on a set again, he will refuse to work with real guns and wants to leave the creation of realistic pistols to digital effects.
Baldwin said that Hutchins was adored by everybody.
Everybody adored her as a person, that she died, that’s the worst thing of all. Somebody died, and it was avoidable. It was so unnecessary, every day of my life I think about that.”
ALEC BALDWIN
Baldwin has also said he doesn’t believe he or anyone else will face charges in the fatal ‘Rust’ shooting.
Alec is currently awaiting a decision from prosecutors to decide whether he should be criminally charged over the accident on the set of the western in New Mexico.
Baldwin has placed responsibility for the tragedy on Hannah Gutierrez Reed, 24, who served as the armorer and props assistant on ‘Rust’, as well as assistant director Dave Halls who handed him the gun.
Someone put a live bullet in the gun who should have known better.
That was (Gutierrez Reed’s) job. Her job was to look at the ammunition and put in the dummy round or the blank round, and there wasn’t supposed to be any live rounds on the set.
ALEC BALDWINThere are two people who didn’t do what they were supposed to do. I’m not sitting there saying I want them to, you know, go to prison, or I want their lives to be hell. I don’t want that, but I want everybody to know that those are the two people that are responsible for what happened.”
ALEC But Baldwin added, “I sincerely believe. Investigators are going to say that this was an accident”
