FILE – In this image taken video released by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office, Alec Baldwin gestures while talking with investigators following the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins on the “Rust” movie set in Santa Fe, N.M. (Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office via AP, File)
Just one day after he announced a new TLC reality show featuring himself, his wife, and their children, actor Alec Baldwin was sued in Santa Fe, New Mexico, court along with numerous others associated with the film “Rust” over the 2021 prop gun movie set shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
The lawsuit filed Wednesday by Hutchins’ Ukraine-based parents, Anatolii Androsovych and Olga Solovey, her sister Svetlana Zemko, and film script supervisor Mamie Mitchell also comes months after a jury convicted armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed of involuntary manslaughter and one month before Baldwin is set to face a trial of his own for the same offense.
According to First Judicial District Court records reviewed by Law&Crime, the negligence case assigned to Judge Kathleen McGarry Ellenwood names Baldwin, Gutierrez-Reed, convicted “Rust” first assistant director David Halls, Rust Movie Productions, LLC, Gutierrez-Reed, and several other individuals and entities associated with the film.
The complaint reportedly rehashes allegations Mamie Mitchell made in a California lawsuit against Baldwin while represented by attorney Gloria Allred, namely, that Baldwin “chose to play Russian Roulette with a loaded gun without checking it or having the Armorer do so” and that he “intentionally, and without just cause or excuse, cocked and fired the loaded gun,” resulting in Hutchins’ tragic but avoidable death.
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Allred is also involved in the latest lawsuit, telling local ABC affiliate KOAT that the named defendants are “responsible for causing villainous death, for causing Ms. Mitchell’s injuries and for causing the loss of consortium damages of Halyna’s family, whom we represent and whose relationship with Halyna was severed so tragically.”
The lawyer maintains that the defendants should be held accountable for creating dangerous movie set conditions that led to Hutchins’ death.
“Individuals were hired, including those responsible, with little to no experience working in films and as such, with little or no context in Hollywood,” Allred reportedly added. “So, safety should have been the primary issue, but that doesn’t, from our point of view, seem to have been the priority.”
Elsewhere, Allred criticized the Baldwin reality TV show move as “cynical” PR geared towards attempting to “influence the jury pool” into viewing the actor as a “sympathetic family man.”
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