Alec Baldwin said he did not pull the trigger of the gun that killed a cinematographer on the movie set of Rust, while investigators in New Mexico zeroed in on how live ammunition may have found its way to the set.
Baldwin, who was holding a gun he was told was safe when it went off, spoke in his first full interview about the Oct. 21 shooting. “Well, the trigger wasn’t pulled.
I didn’t pull the trigger,” the actor told ABC television journalist George Stephanopoulos, according to an excerpt released on Wednesday of the interview, which is to be broadcast on Thursday. “I would never point a gun at anyone and pull a trigger at them.
Never,” Baldwin added. Read more: Recycled live ammo may have been on ‘Rust’ movie set amid fatal shooting: