LOS ANGELES, United States — American
actor
Alec Baldwin has filed a lawsuit against four people involved in the
Western film “Rust,” saying they were negligent in providing him with a gun
that discharged, killing the movie’s cinematographer.
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The death on
October 21, 2021 of Halyna Hutchins sent shock waves through Hollywood and gave
rise to a series of civil suits.
The 64-year-old
Baldwin is suing the film’s armorer and props assistant,
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed;
assistant director David Halls; props master Sarah Zachry; and Seth Kenney, who
supplied guns and ammunition to the film set, according to a filing on Friday
in a Los Angeles court.
Baldwin’s
complaint follows a suit filed against him and others on the set last year by
script supervisor Mamie Mitchell over their alleged role in the shooting that
caused her great emotional distress.
In his suit,
Baldwin accuses Gutierrez-Reed of failing to verify that a Colt revolver he was
using in rehearsal was safe. The suit also states that Halls failed to check
the weapon before he declared it safe and handed it to Baldwin, and that Zachry
failed to ensure that weapons used on the New Mexico set were safe. All those
named in the suit have denied any culpability.
The gun Baldwin
was holding during rehearsal — meant to be loaded only with blanks — instead
discharged a live round, killing the 42-year-old Hutchins and wounding director
Joel Souza.
Baldwin last
month reached a civil settlement with Hutchins’ family, details of which have
not been disclosed. A judge has not yet approved the settlement.
Baldwin, who was
a producer as well as the star of “Rust”, has previously said he did not pull
the trigger, though an FBI report determined the gun could not have gone off
otherwise.
Production on
the movie will resume in January, filmmakers have said, with Hutchins’ husband
Matthew Hutchins taking on the role of executive producer.
“I have no
interest in engaging in recriminations or attribution of blame,” Matthew
Hutchins said in an earlier statement. “All of us believe Halyna’s death was a
terrible accident.”
Investigators in
New Mexico have filed no criminal charges, but have not ruled them out. In
August, Baldwin said he did not believe he would be charged.
While there has
never been any doubt that the gun was in Baldwin’s hands when it went off, it
remains unclear how it came to be loaded with a live round.
Gutierrez-Reed
has sued the film’s ammunition supplier, accusing him of leaving real bullets
among the dummy cartridges.
The incident led to
calls in Hollywood for guns to be permanently banned from sets.
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