Update supplementary comment: In an interview with ABC News George Stephanopoulos that aired on Thursday night, Alec Baldwin stated that he was not worried about killing the photographer Harnia Hutching on the set of the movie "Rust" He was criminally charged for the shooting.

"People familiar with the matter told me that even in the state, I'm unlikely to be charged with any criminal offenses," the actor said.

As the investigation continued, Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies did not rule out criminal charges.

Baldwin and Stephanopoulos sat down for the first extensive interview since the fatal incident occurred on October 21st at the Rust studio near Santa Fe, New Mexico. When Baldwin used the antique Colt .45 revolver during rehearsal and was discharged from the hospital, Hutchins was killed and director Joel Suza was injured.

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During primetime interviews on a one-hour special called Alec Baldwin Unscripted, the actor was sometimes emotional and broke down while describing Hutchins and her passion for work.

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Baldwin said that Hutchins had been guiding him during the set rehearsal on October 21 because she was "marking" the shooting angle of a scene.

He said he suggested to Hutchins, "Now, in this scene, I'm going to raise my gun."

"So I picked up the gun and started loading it. I won't pull the trigger. I said,'Did you see it? [She said]'Well, trick it down and tilt it a little like that.'" Baldwin said, gun "Finally aiming directly under her armpit."

"Then I raised the gun and said,'Can you see it? Can you see it? I loosened the hammer on the gun and the gun went off."

After the incident, Baldwin stated that it is not yet clear what happened.

"Everyone was terrified. They were shocked. The voice was loud," he said. "They didn't wear earplugs. The gun should be empty. Someone told me that someone handed me an empty gun. If there are cosmetic bullets, there is no charge at all."

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Baldwin said that after Hutchins was hit by a bullet, "I thought to my heart,'Did she faint?' It took about 45 minutes to an hour before I realized that the gun had the idea of ​​shooting with live ammunition." He thought Hutchins may have been hit by cotton wool coming out of a blank cartridge.

"No one can understand," Baldwin said. "Did she have a heart attack? The idea of ​​someone shooting live ammunition into a gun does not even exist in reality."

Suza, standing behind Hutchins, was also hit.

He said that he was standing next to her for about 60 seconds, "She was just lying there in shock." He said that she was still conscious. He said that then the setting was cleaned up and medical staff were brought in.

Baldwin said he didn't know how the live ammunition got into the gun, or even how it got into the set.

"Someone put a live ammunition in the gun. This bullet shouldn't be shot in the house at all," he said.

Stephanopoulos asked if he had not personally inspected the gun. George Clooney once said that he would do this when he was holding a gun on the set.

Baldwin said: "Years ago, someone taught me that if I took a gun and then I popped a clip from the gun or manipulated the barrel, they would take the gun away from me and redo it." "Props The master said,'Don't do that.' When I was young, one of the things they said was,'We don't want to be actors, to be the last line of defense against catastrophic gun security breaches.'

Baldwin agreed with Clooney's comments, and he also refuted those who weighed the matter, saying that it "does not help the situation at all."

ABC News released a trailer for the special program on Wednesday. Baldwin said in the trailer that he "did not pull the trigger"-this clip is indeed very appealing to the audience, but it is a bit strange for a tragic event that the investigation is underway. . On Thursday, the attorney for Rust's assistant director David Hols said that her client supported Baldwin's claim that he did not pull the trigger.

"I didn't pull the trigger," Baldwin told Stephanopoulos. "No, no, no, no, no. I will never point a gun at anyone to pull the trigger. Never. That's my training. You don’t point a gun at anyone to pull the trigger. In me On the first day of guidance in this business, never click, click, click, click with a gun—this is the training I receive. You don’t want to pull the trigger. On the first day I receive guidance in this industry One day, people said to me: "Never use a gun to click, click, click, click, click. Because even if it is incremental, if you do, you will damage the firing pin on the gun. Don't do that. "

Baldwin said, "Someone handed him a gun, and someone said,'This is a cold gun.'" Stephanopoulos asked if it was the first assistant director Hols, and Baldwin replied yes.

"In the years when I was filming,'hot' meant that there was a charge, and'cold' the gun meant there was nothing in it."

When he said, "This is a cold gun," what he said to everyone on the set was, "You can relax because it is empty." ... Cold gun means there is no charge there. There may be fake bombs. "

Baldwin said he "don't know" "what happened there, why he made such a statement, and what the reality is."

According to ABC News, Hols’ lawyer, Lisa Torak, said it was not her client’s responsibility to inspect guns. She did not confirm that it was Hols who handed the weapon to Baldwin.

Baldwin said that he decided to sit down for an interview, in part to refute other people's claims about what happened on the set.

Two civil lawsuits have been filed for the show, including another civil lawsuit filed by screenplay supervisor Mamie Mitchell and chief lighting technician Serge Svetnoy. Both lawsuits mentioned Baldwin, who was also the producer of the film. More lawsuits are expected.

In the interview, Baldwin distinguished between his type of producer and the type of more active line producer. But he also said that he did not know the staff's concerns about the safety of the studio.

"I have never heard a word. No," he said.

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Earlier on October 21, the film’s first assistant photographer, Ryan Ruper, left the set along with six other staff members to protest the harsh working conditions. Baldwin said that he had talked with Ruper the day before, and although he talked about the need to provide better hotel rooms closer to the location, he "didn't raise security concerns." Baldwin stated that he is willing to give up part of his salary to pay for improved accommodation. Instead, he suggested that the crew members who went out "decided to renegotiate the contract during the filming process."

Baldwin also distanced himself from the decision to hire Hannah Gutierrez-Reed as the film’s armorer to handle weapons. He said that she told him that after using the gun in a scene or rehearsal, "you hand the gun to me or Hols." He said that he had a safety demonstration with her for an hour and a half on October 12.

Although Gutierrez-Reid’s lawyer raised the possibility that someone tried to destroy the setting by putting live ammunition in a box of fake ammunition, Baldwin seemed to reject this possibility.

Baldwin said he met Hutchins’ widow Matthew and their 9-year-old son. He said that they would go to dinner together and a memorial service together.

"Since then, I have communicated with him several times, but I believe he has moved in a direction where he does not plan to communicate with others under the advice of a lawyer," he said.

Baldwin also stated that his career "may" end after what happened, and he has dreams of what "continuously" happens.

"Do you feel guilty?" Stephanopoulos asked.

"No. No. I think someone is responsible for what happened. I can't say who it is, but I know it's not me. To be honest, if I feel that I am responsible, if I feel that I am responsible, I might commit suicide. And I won’t say this lightly."

Stephanopoulos did ask Baldwin about Donald Trump's views on the incident. The former president sometimes attacked Baldwin’s imitation of him on Saturday night, suggesting that the actor might have deliberately shot Hutchins.

Baldwin told Stephanopoulos, "I said to myself,'Just when you thought things couldn't be more surreal, this former president of the United States was commenting on this tragic situation.'"

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