Alec Baldwin Seeks Distance From ‘Rust’ Producers As Fatal Shooting Lawsuits Pile Up

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Less than a month after the family of slain Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins filed a wrongful death lawsuit, star and producer Alec Baldwin is seeking to protect himself against the snowballing legal actions.In a filing today against his fellow producers on the indie western (read it here), Baldwin seeks to invoke a clause in his contract that will indemnify him in all current and future lawsuits.“At this point, two things are clear: someone is culpable for chambering the live round that led to this horrific tragedy, and it is someone other than Baldwin.

Baldwin is an actor,” reads the legal filing from Baldwin’s attorneys Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, “He didn’t announce that the gun was “cold” when it really contained a live round; he didn’t load the gun; he didn’t check the bullets in the gun; he didn’t purchase the bullets; he didn’t make the bullets and represent that they were dummies; he wasn’t in charge of firearm safety on the set; he didn’t hire the people who supplied the bullets or checked the gun; and he played no role in managing the movie’s props.

Each of those jobs was performed by someone else.”Hutchins was killed by a live bullet in a prop gun discharged by Baldwin on Oct.

21, 2021 on the set of Rust at the Bonanza Creek Ranch near Sante Fe, New Mexico. “I didn’t pull the trigger,” Baldwin told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos in a Dec.