Alec Baldwin revealed during a recent interview with CNN (via TMZ) that he was afraid Trump supporters would kill him after shooting Rust last October. Baldwin, the star and producer of the independent Western film, was carrying a firearm when he was shot while filming and killing cinematographer Halina Hutchins.
Trump responded to the tragedy by saying that Baldwin “probably shot her on purpose,” which Baldwin feared would turn the former president’s fan base against him in the same way that Trump rallied his supporters during the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack.
The former president of the United States said [I] Maybe she was shot on purpose. For me, it was the only time I was worried about what was going to happen,” Baldwin told CNN. “Here was Trump, who was ordering people to commit violence, and he was pointing his finger at me and saying I was responsible for the death.”
Baldwin said that after Trump’s message, he was “1,000% nervous” about being attacked by Trump supporters. He added, “A group of people was instructed by the former president to go to the Capitol, and they killed the law enforcement officer. They killed someone. You don’t think I said to myself, ‘Will some of these people come and kill me?'”
The FBI recently completed its investigation into the “Rust” shooting and declared that the firearm that killed the Hutchins could not fire “without pulling the trigger while working internal components were intact and functional.” The FBI’s conclusion did not align with Baldwin’s earlier statements about the tragedy. The actor confirmed that he believed he did not pull the trigger on the gun before firing it.
“The trigger was not pulled,” Baldwin told ABC reporter George Stephanopoulos in an interview last December. “I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger. Never.”
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