Husband of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins says he felt ‘so angry’ seeing Alec Baldwin describe killing her on set and then fail to ‘accept any responsibility’
- Matt Hutchins’s wife Halyna, 42, was shot and killed on the set of Alec Baldwin’s Western film Rust on October 21
- Baldwin, believing the antique Colt .45 revolver was not loaded, was rehearsing a scene and shot the cinematographer
- The 63-year-old actor said in a televised interview in December: ‘Someone is responsible for what happened, and I can’t say who that is, but it’s not me’
- Hutchins told Today, in an interview to air in full on Thursday, that he was angered by Baldwin’s failure to take responsibility
- ‘I was just so angry to see him talk about her death so publicly … and then to not accept any responsibility after having just described killing her,’ he said
- Hutchins filed a wrongful death law suit against Baldwin and others on February 15
The husband of the cinematographer shot and killed by Alec Baldwin on the set of his Western has told of his shock and anger at Baldwin’s failure to take responsibility for her death.
Halyna Hutchins 42, died on October 21 when a prop gun used in the film Rust fired, shooting Hutchins in the chest.
Baldwin, 63, was told the gun he brandished was ‘cold’ – not loaded – and on December 3 he told ABC News that he did not feel guilty for her death, because he did not believe he was responsible.
‘Watching him I just felt so angry,’ said Matt Hutchins, Halyna’s husband of 16 years.
‘I was just so angry to see him talk about her death so publicly in such a detailed way and then to not accept any responsibility after having just described killing her.’
Matt Hutchins, husband of Halyna Hutchins and father of their nine-year-old son Aldous, spoke to Hoda Kotb for an interview to be aired on Thursday
Halyna Hutchins, 42, was shot and killed on set on October 21
Halyna Hutchins is seen on set with Alec Baldwin, who also executive produced the film Rust
Hutchins, a Harvard-educated lawyer, told Today in an interview to be broadcast in full on Thursday that he felt the majority of the blame lay with Baldwin.
Baldwin, in the December interview, said: ‘Someone is responsible for what happened, and I can’t say who that is, but it’s not me.’
Hutchins said: ‘The idea that the person holding the gun and causing it to discharge is not responsible is absurd to me.
‘But gun safety was not the only problem on that set. There were a number of industry standards that were not practiced and there’s multiple responsible parties,’ he added.
Hutchins, who has a nine-year-old son with his late wife, Aldous, filed a wrongful death suit against Baldwin on February 15.
Brian Panish, representing Baldwin, said the Oscar-nominated actor and others are named defendants ‘responsible for the safety on the set and whose reckless behavior in cost cutting led to the senseless and tragic death of Halyna Hutchins.’
The suit also names the armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, 24, who has said that she loaded the antique Colt .45 revolver with what she believed were dummy rounds.
Gutierrez-Reed named crew member Seth Kenney, who supplied ammunition to the set, in her own suit, filed in January.
Gutierrez-Reed gave the gun to Dave Halls, an assistant director on the movie, who is also named in the Hutchins family’s lawsuit.
Halls told Baldwin the gun was ‘cold’.
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