Alec Baldwin said it felt “strange to go back to work” for the first time since the fatal shooting on the set of “Rust.”
Baldwin, 63, began production on a new movie this week, and chronicled the experience in an Instagram video.
“I haven’t worked since Oct. 21 of last year when this horrible thing happened on the set of this film, and we had the accidental death of our cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins,” Baldwin said. “I even still find that hard to say.”
Baldwin didn’t specify which movie he’s working on during the nearly five-minute video, but The Hollywood Reporter says it’s the action movie “97 Minutes,” which centers on a plane in danger of crashing.
Hutchins died at age 42 after being shot by a prop firearm that Baldwin was handling on the New Mexico set of “Rust.” Baldwin says he was told the prop was “cold,” indicating it didn’t have live ammunition.
Authorities are investigating the incident, including why live rounds were on the movie’s set that day. Nobody has been charged in the shooting, which also wounded director Joel Souza.
Baldwin was a producer and star of “Rust,” a Western movie that was being filmed at the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe.
Earlier this week, the medic who responded to the scene filed a lawsuit that names the ranch and the film’s production group, saying the experience caused “tremendous shock, trauma and severe emotional distress,” according to Variety.
The film’s producers, including Baldwin, aren’t specifically named in the lawsuit.
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