Alec Baldwin on Trial: Is the Actor to Blame for a Fatal Shooting on Set?
variety.comGene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Alec Baldwin’s temper is the stuff of Hollywood legend. His volatile behavior on the set of “The Edge” — he refused to shave his beard — left such an impression on producer Art Linson that he made a movie about it, “What Just Happened,” with Bruce Willis caricaturing Baldwin as a tantrum-throwing star.
But he is also an adept and dependable actor. Dean Goodine was the prop master on “The Edge,” a thriller filmed in the Canadian Rockies.
Before one key scene, he showed Baldwin how to load dummies into a Winchester Model 1886. “I have no stories other than of him being professional,” Goodine says. “He paid attention to all the training.
He did the scene flawlessly.” Baldwin is on trial this week in Santa Fe, N.M., on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. While working on the Western film “Rust” in 2021, prosecutors allege Baldwin recklessly pointed a Colt .45 at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and pulled the trigger, causing her death.
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