“What you have is a certain group of people, litigants and whatever, on whatever side, who their attitude is, ‘well the people who likely seem negligent have no money and the people who have money are not negligent,'” said Baldwin, as reported by CNN.Baldwin did not specify which of the lawsuits related to Hutchins’ death he was referring to in his statement.

On February 15, Hutchins’ family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Baldwin and multiple other defendants, including the producers and production companies of “Rust”; assistant director Dave Halls, who handed Baldwin the firearm that shot Hutchins; firearm supplier Seth Kenney and the production’s armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed and prop master Sarah Zachry.

Other “Rust” lawsuits filed include one by the production’s main medic Cheryln Schaefer filed suit last month against the film’s producers as well as Halls, Zachry, Gutierrez-Reed and Kenney claiming lost wages and emotional trauma.

Gutierrez-Reed also has filed her own lawsuit against Kenney.During the Boulder Q&A, Baldwin reiterated many of the arguments for his innocence that he made during his first public post-shooting interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, saying he was told by crew members that the gun was safe. “When someone, whose job is to ensure the safety of a weapon, hands someone else, whose job is to be the secondary layer of protection for safety of a weapon, and they hand you that weapon, you declare that that weapon is safe,” he said.“That’s how I’ve done it my whole life because you’re not allowed as an actor to declare the weapon … I mean, the joke is, you don’t want the actors doing the safety check.

Alec Baldwin: ‘Rust’ Lawsuits Are Being Filed Based on Money, Not Negligence

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