And [Hutchins] says to me, ‘Hold the gun lower.

Go to your right.

Okay, right there.

Alec Baldwin at the Hamptons International Film Festival

All right, do that.

Now show it a little bit lower.’

And she’s getting me to position the gun."

Halyna Hutchins wearing beanie

Why sue people if you’re not going to get money?

That’s what you’re doing."

I’ve relied on the safety experts there to declare the gun is safe and hand me the gun.

sign pointing to “Rust” set

Never had a problem."

He went on to say real guns are used in films because that is what moviegoers want.

“I’m very hopeful when the facts come out,” the actor also said at one point.

I mean, I was involved in a situation with somebody was killed.

It’s changed my life just in terms of the function of weapons in films and television."