Alec Baldwin Seen Firing Prop Guns and Taking Safety Precautions on ‘Rust’ Set in Newly Released Video

Newly launched footage from the New Mexico set of Rust reveals Alec Baldwin dealing with and discharging a prop gun, and talking with crewmembers about security issues he has concerning using the firearms.

The footage, obtained and revealed by NBC News, was reportedly filmed days earlier than the tragic deadly capturing of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

The 5 movies revealed on Wednesday present Baldwin in character as he rehearses scenes for the Western drama. The footage reveals Baldwin firing prop weapons whereas rehearsing and staging a scene, and in two of the movies Baldwin expressed concern for the security of some crew members, and subsequently has them change and rearrange their positions and areas to stop potential harm.

In one video, Baldwin may be seen holding a prop gun in his hand and he asks somebody off display screen to maneuver to the “other side of the camera” and explains, “I don’t want to shoot towards you.”

Another clip noticed Baldwin expressing issues over a path that the crew can be utilizing in the course of the filming of a scene. In one little bit of the footage, a digicam man falls whereas filming and Baldwin repeatedly asks if they’re OK earlier than filming resumes.

The movies surfaced in the future earlier than particular prosecutors Kari T. Morrissey and Jason J. Lewis had been scheduled to convene a grand jury to present their case asking the jury to contemplate recharging Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter.

However, NBC News experiences that the presiding decide rescheduled the deliberate proceedings on Wednesday, throughout a teleconference listening to. It’s unclear when the grand jury will now be convened to listen to the particular prosecutors’ case.

According to the report, the 5 movies are simply a few of many clips offered to the particular prosecutors  final month, after they had been first requested from Rust Movie Productions LLC within the spring. It’s unclear right now how a lot of the footage has been reviewed by the particular prosecutors.

“After extensive investigation over the past several months, additional facts have come to light that we believe show Mr. Baldwin has criminal culpability in the death of Hutchins and the shooting of [director] Joel Souza,” Morrissey and Lewis mentioned in an announcement launched on Oct. 17. “We believe the appropriate course of action is to permit a panel of New Mexico citizens to determine from here whether Mr. Baldwin should be held over for criminal trial.”

 

Baldwin has repeatedly insisted he did not pull the trigger on the prop gun, and has staunchly maintained his innocence.

Hutchins was killed Oct. 21, 2021, on the set of Rust, when the prop gun Baldwin was holding instantly discharged, striking and killing the cinematographer and injuring director Joel Souza.

In the 2 years since tragedy struck in New Mexico, lawsuits had been filed, criminal charges had been filed — then dropped, for Baldwin — and allegations had been made, together with that the movie’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, consumed alcohol and smoked marijuana throughout filming of the Western.

The manufacturing was shut down after the tragedy, however resumed production in April 2023. In May, Baldwin took to Instagram to commemorate the tip of filming on the mission.

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