Actor Alec Baldwin on Saturday spoke with the media for the first time on camera since he accidentally fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on a New Mexico movie set earlier this month. “It’s an active investigation in terms of — a woman died, she was my friend,” Baldwin said of Hutchins in video taken by paparazzi and published by TMZ. According to a police affidavit, assistant director David Halls handed Baldwin the gun and said it was “cold” — meaning safe to use — just moments before the shooting. Baldwin said that the day he arrived to film “Rust,” he took Hutchins and Souza to dinner. He added on Saturday that he has met with Hutchins’ husband, Matthew, characterizing him as “in shock.”“He has a 9-year-old son,” Baldwin said.

Source: Huffington Post October 31, 2021 02:02 UTC