Baldwin ‘to remove himself from public eye'
Evening Standard|October 25, 2021
ACTOR ‘CANCELS ALL PROJECTS’ AFTER PROP GUN SHOOTING TRAGEDY ON WESTERN MOVIE SET
Lizzie Edmonds
Baldwin ‘to remove himself from public eye'

ALEC BALDWIN has reportedly cancelled all other projects and is planning to step back from the public eye after he accidentally fired a loaded prop gun on set, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

An investigation was today continuing into Thursday’s shooting of Ms Hutchins, 42, the director of photography on the Western film Rust, near Santa Fe in New Mexico. She was airlifted to hospital but was later pronounced dead. Director Joel Souza, 48, was also injured but later discharged from hospital.

Today, sources close to Baldwin, 63, who was the lead actor and producer of the film, said he was looking “to take some time to himself and re-centre himself”. The same source told People Magazine Baldwin was “hysterical and absolutely inconsolable for hours” after the accident and was now planning to “remove himself” from the public eye.

“This was pretty devastating,” the source said. “This is how he handles difficult times. Whenever something bad happens, in the short term, he removes himself from [the] public eye.”

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