Alec Baldwin Is Passing Blame For Rust Shooting On Halyna Hutchins Now?!?

Ugh, Alec Baldwin’s behavior trying to dodge liability in the Rust shooting is coming off as so slimy now.

We never thought we’d see him stoop so low as to feud with Halyna Hutchins’s widower, but the actor started lashing out after Matthew Hutchins filed a wrongful death lawsuit against him. He even started throwing shade after Matthew gave an interview on the Today Show. It’s sad, but at this point we’re less and less surprised as he continues to point fingers everywhere but himself.

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Yes, even though he was a producer, on top of the call sheet, and the person who wielded and shot the gun that killed Halyna, the 30 Rock alum is now claiming that his contract “protected him from financial responsibility in her death,” according to the New York Times. On Friday, Alec filed an arbitration demand against his fellow Rust producers, and even went so far as to demand the production pay his legal fees.

Even worse, these legal docs seem to try to pass off some of the blame on to HALYNA for the shooting! The arbitration (obtained by the NY Times) described the cinematographer’s actions moments before shooting:

According to the docs, the Emmy winner then asked if Halyna wanted him to “pull back the hammer” as was written in the script, and she said yes. The docs stated:

His lawyers insist Alec was “shocked” when he discovered that he had fired a live bullet, which he didn’t find out until the end of his interview with the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office after the incident.

Apparently, there’s a clause in the 63-year-old’s contract with Rust Movie Productions L.L.C. that absolves him of financial responsibility for legal fees or claims arising out of