Alec Baldwin said he had dinner with ‘my friend’ Halyna Hutchins on the first day of filming Rust in New Mexico before fatally shooting her last Thursday and snapped at his wife, Hilaria, several times during a tense roadside exchange with reporters in Vermont on Saturday.
Baldwin was with his wife Hilaria, who appeared to be filming the interaction, when the pair pulled over to talk to photographers in Manchester, Vermont. He said he would support new measures restricting the use of weapons on the set of television shows and films in order to enhance worker safety. “What do you want to know?” a visibly agitated Alec said as his wife, Hilaria, held up her cell phone while apparently recording the impromptu news briefing on the side of the road. The couple spoke for roughly four minutes. He said, “A woman died. She was my friend.”
Alec further said, “the day I arrived in Santa Fe to start shooting, I took her to dinner with Joel, the director. We were a very, very well-oiled crew shooting a film together and then this horrible event happened.” Hilaria, who appears to want to say something to her husband, walks toward him as he’s talking to reporters, prompting an annoyed Alec to tell her, ‘Excuse me.’ Alec told photographers he had been ‘ordered’ by the Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office ‘not to talk about the investigation,’ but is ‘eagerly awaiting for the sheriff’s department’ to release their findings. The actor, who was visibly tense during his exchange with reporters, then asked, “What other questions do you have other than that?”
Baldwin also claimed that he ‘talks to the cops every day’ following the death of the 42-year-old filmmaker. Hilaria then enters the frame and stands next to her husband while apparently filming the assembled crew of reporters and photographers with her mobile phone. A reporter then begins to ask Alec whether he met with the family of the late cinematographer, but he forgets her name and fumbles the question, prompting both Alec and Hilaria to express their annoyance. “Her name is Halyna,’ Hilaria tells the reporter.
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“If you’re spending this much time waiting for us, you should know her name,” Hilaria tells the reporter. Alec also appears to grow annoyed at the reporter, asking in astonishment, “You don’t know her name? Come on. Halyna Hutchins.” Alec then continued, “I met with her husband, Matthew, and her son. Yeah, that’s right.” When asked how the meeting went, Alec replied: ‘I wouldn’t know how to characterize it.’ Alec then said that they were ‘mortified’ though before he could finish his sentence, Hilaria interjects.