{"id":375993,"date":"2021-12-03T15:03:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T12:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/alec-baldwin-blames-victim-in-sickening-interview\/"},"modified":"2021-12-03T15:03:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T12:03:50","slug":"alec-baldwin-blames-victim-in-sickening-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/alec-baldwin-blames-victim-in-sickening-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"#Alec Baldwin blames victim in sickening interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Alec Baldwin blames victim in sickening interview<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Maureen Callahan\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=152 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=38 38w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>       <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Just when you think Alec Baldwin can\u2019t go any lower, he blames Halyna Hutchins, the woman he shot to death, for getting shot to death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything is at her direction,\u201d Baldwin told a sycophantic George Stephanopoulos during a jaw-dropping, hourlong interview that aired Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m holding the gun where she told me to hold it,\u201d Baldwin said, \u201cwhich ended up right below her armpit. Which is what I was told \u2014 I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There was so much Baldwin claimed not to know.<\/p>\n<p>And Stephanopoulos, his longtime friend from the Hamptons \u2014 not that the average viewer would know that \u2014 was only too eager to pitch softball after softball.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, one of ABC\u2019s leading journalists \u2014 I use that term loosely \u2014 hardly challenged Baldwin when he claimed, repeatedly, that he never pulled the trigger, that the gun just went rogue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would never point a gun at anyone,\u201d Baldwin said \u2014 despite his earlier assertion that Hutchins had told him to point the gun at her, so he did \u2014 \u201cand pull the trigger at them. Never.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bullet striking and killing that woman came out of the barrel of the gun pointed directly at her,\u201d says retired FBI Agent Bobby Chacon, who now works as a writer and on-set consultant in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/baldwin-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Alec Baldwin cries during his interview with George Stephanopolous on ABC.\" class=\"wp-image-20357458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/baldwin-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/baldwin-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/baldwin-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Alec Baldwin cries during his interview with George Stephanopolous on ABC.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">ABC <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBullets don\u2019t curve. He isn\u2019t in \u2018The Matrix.\u2019 The trigger would still have to be pulled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not aware of any gun firing itself,\u201d says Steve Wolf, a Hollywood firearms and special-effects expert since 1994. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen a gun self-discharge. A single-action revolver like this\u201d \u2014 the Colt that Baldwin fired \u2014 \u201ccan be discharged very easily, with minimal input required \u2026 The trigger still must have been pressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/1236943642.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"George Stephanopoulos had the first exclusive interview with Alec Baldwin following the deadly shooting on the set of the film 'Rust.'\" class=\"wp-image-20357457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/1236943642.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/1236943642.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/1236943642.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/1236943642.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>George Stephanopoulos had the first exclusive interview with Alec Baldwin following the deadly shooting on the set of the film \u201cRust.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">ABC via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Wolf is also outraged by a larger concern. \u201cIt\u2019s really important to discredit anyone who claims that guns fire themselves,\u201d he says. \u201cIf this becomes an acceptable defense, there goes any accountability when it comes to shooting people. We can\u2019t have this kind of \u2018guns shoot themselves\u2019 thing. They don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps \u2014 perhaps \u2014 Baldwin is in denial. That\u2019s the generous interpretation, but it\u2019s hard to feel generous toward him when he and his wife have been behaving so deplorably.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/alec-baldwin-instagram-11-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Halyna Hutchins\" class=\"wp-image-20357709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/alec-baldwin-instagram-11-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/alec-baldwin-instagram-11-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/alec-baldwin-instagram-11-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed by Alec Baldwin on the \u201cRust\u201d set.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for SAGindie<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There was the jaunt to Vermont im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely after the shooting, shopping at Ralph Lauren and buying out a local tavern, sitting right in front of the window where paparazzi could get unobstructed pictures.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-nypost-small-post\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"231\" height=\"347\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/SPL5278053_001.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=231\" alt=\"Alec Baldwin is seen putting luggage in the back of the car with wife Hilaria.\" class=\"wp-image-20357459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/SPL5278053_001.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=462 462w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/SPL5278053_001.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=347 346w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/SPL5278053_001.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=231 231w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/SPL5278053_001.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=116 115w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/SPL5278053_001.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\"\/><figcaption>Alec Baldwin is seen putting luggage in the back of the car with wife Hilaria.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Elder Ordonez \/ SplashNews.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Then came the bizarre roadside press conference in which Hilaria yelled self-righteously at the press while angling to get in every camera frame. All quickly followed by the gross Instagram posts on Halloween and after, raving about how h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>y their children are, while Hutchins\u2019 son, only 9 when she died, was so traumatized, he couldn\u2019t speak for two days after her death.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday morning, hours before this interview aired, Baldwin was photographed going for coffee and loading up his car \u2014 en route to the Hamptons, no doubt \u2014 while his gross fraud of a wife, Hilaria, strutted around in metallic leggings, four-inch heels and a gold $1,900 Moncler vest.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s little gambit, Baldwin attempting to elicit sympathy while pointing the finger at everyone else, was an epic miscalculation.<\/p>\n<p>He truly believes we\u2019ll feel sorry for him \u2014 Alec Baldwin, one of Hollywood\u2019s biggest bullies and rage monsters, attempting to squeeze out tears as he laments how this has ruined his love of moviemaking.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanopoulos is equally to blame here. This was an embarrassing line of questioning.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"709\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/1236943535.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Baldwin denied he was to blame in his interview with Stephanopolous, saying \u201cI would never point a gun at anyone.\u201d\" class=\"wp-image-20357456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/1236943535.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/1236943535.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/1236943535.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/1236943535.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Baldwin denied he was to blame in his interview with Stephanopolous, saying, \u201cI would never point a gun at anyone.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">ABC via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/alec-baldwin-instagram-08.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Alec Baldwin is seen on set before the fatal shooting.\" class=\"wp-image-20357754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/alec-baldwin-instagram-08.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/alec-baldwin-instagram-08.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/alec-baldwin-instagram-08.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Alec Baldwin is seen on set before the fatal shooting.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Serge Svetnoy\/Facebook<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhat was it that drew you to this project in the first place,\u201d Stephanopoulos asked, \u201cto \u2018Rust\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Who cares? What is this \u2014 an episode of \u201cAccess Hollywood\u201d?<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/alec-baldwin-instagram-12.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=666\" alt=\"&quot;Rust&quot; director Joel Souza\" class=\"wp-image-20357708\" width=\"258\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/alec-baldwin-instagram-12.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=516 516w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/alec-baldwin-instagram-12.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=386 387w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/alec-baldwin-instagram-12.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=258 258w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/alec-baldwin-instagram-12.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=129 129w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/alec-baldwin-instagram-12.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\"\/><figcaption>\u201cRust\u201d director Joel Souza was also shot on the set.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cPeople who are watching this show,\u201d Baldwin said \u2014 meaning people like you and me, the little people \u2014 \u201cyou have no idea how unique a motion picture set is \u2026 the amount of care \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Care? That\u2019s rich given what we know about this set, the seven crew members who walked out that very morning over documented safety concerns, at least two accidental gun discharges, one accidental special-effects explosion and a young, inexperienced armorer \u2014 but, hey, sure, let\u2019s go with \u201ccare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI looked at all these people, and I see how hard they worked and they\u2019re so conscientious\u201d \u2014 unbelievable \u2014 \u201cand you\u2019re part of one of the great collaborative processes in the world: moviemaking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the essence of this tragedy: It was just a movie. A fast, cheap and out-of-control production that cost a young wife and mother her life.<\/p>\n<p>Ignore Baldwin\u2019s excuses. Everyone from Chacon to Wolf to George Clooney and others has said safety protocols on set are specific, simple, exact, rigorous and to be followed to the letter every time.<\/p>\n<p>Every. Single. Time.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>In speaking to me a few weeks ago, Wolf presented an interesting hypothetical: \u201cIf that scene required [Baldwin] to put the gun to his head and pull the trigger, I\u2019m sure he would have taken a look inside the gun. Wouldn\u2019t you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">If only Stephanopoulos had asked that question.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, we learned that Baldwin now has nightmares (poor him!), feels no guilt, and fully expects Hutchins\u2019 widower, Matthew, to sue \u2014 but is feeling pretty confident that he won\u2019t be charged criminally and that Matthew won\u2019t come after him personally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone is responsible for what happened,\u201d Baldwin said, \u201cand I know it\u2019s not me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After this interview \u2014 and Baldwin\u2019s callous demeanor these past few weeks \u2014 Matthew Hutchins, especially, might feel differently.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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