Although the case was dismissed in July, Alec Baldwin says the story surrounding the fatal “Rust” shooting has only just begun.
On the December 16 episode of David Duchovny’s “Fail Better” podcast, Baldwin said “there’s more to come” regarding what happened during filming on October 21, 2021 on the set of the indie western film “Rust,” adding that “the truth of what happened has not been told never.
“I think there’s more to come,” Baldwin said. “There is more to come, but more to come is my effort now, and it will undoubtedly be a successful effort, to raise and expose what really happened. I was counterpunching. I was on the defensive. I was being accused. I was being accused.”
Baldwin went on to say that he feels the mainstream media “suppressed every story” that could have helped his chances of clearing his name and “magnified every story” that tarnished his image in the three years following the tragic death of “Rust” director of photography Halina. Hutchins.
“We have more nonsense that will be exposed in subsequent legal suits and such,” Baldwin said. “For the last three years, people have just been eating dinner. Because in this country, when people hate you at this level, they want three things. They want you to die.”
On the day of the shooting, Baldwin fired a gun with a live round, wounding the film’s director, Joel Souza, and killing Hutchins. Baldwin claimed he never pulled the trigger on the firearm and the blame was quickly placed on the “rusty” gunsmith, Hannah Gutierrez Reid, who pleaded not guilty but was eventually charged with tampering with evidence and sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Manslaughter charges against Baldwin were dropped soon after. However, the following year, Baldwin was re-indicted by a grand jury in light of a new investigation. The case ended in an unexpected dismissal in July after Baldwin’s lawyers exposed the allegation and Santa Fe sheriffs concealed evidence.
Baldwin said that since the accident, some have not hesitated to distance him from the industry, a feeling he likened to “dying because you roam the earth invisible.”
However, Baldwin believes things are starting to change for him and said he is looking forward to putting things right in the coming months.
“I think with the connections I’ve made recently, things have come back to my way back to work,” Baldwin said. “I’m happy about that because I have seven children. But I also enjoyed the fact that there’s a lot of this case that’s unknown because we didn’t have a full trial.”