Alec Baldwin to stay in ‘Rasta’ lead role despite allegations
Alec Baldwin will remain the star of Rust as production resumes, the film’s lawyer confirmed.
The 64-year-old actor will be charged with the manslaughter of Halina Hutchins in 2021, despite previously claiming he didn’t pull the trigger.
Hutchins’ widower Matt, who shared his 10-year-old son Andros with the late cinematographer, will remain the film’s executive producer, a role he took on in a wrongful death lawsuit that was settled in October. .
Rust will also see the return of director Joel Souza, despite the fact that he was injured during filming.
“The film is still on track to be completed,” Rust Movie Productions attorney Melina Spadone said in a statement.
Hutchins was killed on a film set near Sante Fe, New Mexico on October 21, 2021, after Baldwin’s rifle fired a live round and hit her in the chest. She was 42 years old.
The actor’s lawyer has since called the accusation against the 30 Rock actor “a terrible miscarriage of justice.”
On January 19, Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Oltwis said she plans to indict Baldwin and gunsmith Hannah Gutierrez-Reed on two counts of manslaughter.
Gutiérrez-Reed, who was looking after the guns on set, repeatedly denied responsibility for the shooting. She was once described as “a little careless with guns”.
Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed will both be charged “alternately”, meaning the jury will decide which of the two charges – manslaughter or manslaughter in the commission of a lawful act – they are guilty or not guilty of.
The maximum sentence on the first charge is 18 months, but since the second charge involves improving firearms, Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed face a mandatory five-year sentence if found guilty.
In January 2022, Gutiérrez-Reid filed a lawsuit against the prop company that supplied the cartridges, alleging that it was selling blanks and lives mixed together.
In November, Baldwin sued several members of the film’s crew. Lawyers for Baldwin and Gutierrez-Rida pleaded not guilty to their clients and vowed to fight charges of manslaughter.
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