ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos will have the first interview with Alec Baldwin since the accidental shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his film Rust.
The interview will air as a primetime special on ABC tomorrow, Thursday, Dec. 2 at 8 p.m, and will stream on Hulu later that evening, the network said on Wednesday. ABC will also air a two-hour edition of its newsmagazine 20/20 on Dec. 10 examining the Rust accident. That program will also feature additional reporting and interviews.
The interview and specials were announced on Good Morning America on Wednesday morning.
In addition, a follow-up special will air next week, on Friday, and will stream the following day on Hulu. “Next week, a two-hour 20/20 delves into the events ahead of the deadly shooting on the set of Rust and the pending investigations into what went wrong; and features the Baldwin interview and new interviews,” ABC News said.
“She was my friend,” Baldwin had said about Hutchins in his first, brief interview after her death, on Oct. 30. “The day I arrived in Santa Fe and started shooting, I took her to dinner with Joel [Souza], the director.” He added at the time: “We were a very, very well-oiled crew shooting a film together, and then this horrible event happened.”
On Oct. 21, Rust cinematographer Hutchins was fatally shot and director Joel Souza was wounded when Baldwin, a producer and star on the Western that was filming in Bonanza City, New Mexico, fired a gun that he believed was safe but actually contained a live round.
Baldwin, armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed and assistant director David Halls are among those under investigation; multiple lawsuits have been filed as a result. On Tuesday, a search warrant affidavit filed for a prop shop shed light on how alleged live ammunition may have ended up on the set. The affidavit notes that Thell Reed, a longtime Hollywood armorer and the father of Gutierrez Reed, had a can containing between 200-300 rounds of “live ammunition” from a previous project that was purchased from Seth Kenney of PDQ Arm & Prop, LLC. That ammo may match ammo collected from the Bonanza Creek Ranch set.
The criminal investigation into the shooting is being conducted by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office and the New Mexico First Judicial District Attorney and could take months to complete, authorities have said.
Source: HollyWood
