That was no good... no good at all
Final words of Baldwin victim as star faces backlash over this Halloween snap
THE cinematographer shot by Alec Baldwin cried ‘That was no good. That was no good at all’ as she lay dying on a film set, it emerged yesterday.
Witnesses revealed how Halyna Hutchins, who was married with a son aged nine, uttered last words while being cradled by a friend following the tragic accident.
Fresh details about the shooting emerged as the Hollywood star, 63, faced a backlash over pictures of him celebrating Halloween on Sunday.
Baldwin’s wife Hilaria, 37, posted images on Instagram of them posing in costume with their six children. She told fans the couple ‘rallied’ to give their family some normality. Pictures show Baldwin dressed as a creature from the children’s book Where The Wild Things Are, with his wife and two of their daughters dressed as witches.
Referring to the shooting, which occurred ten days earlier, Mrs Baldwin wrote: ‘Parenting through this has been an intense experience, to say the least.’ But the pictures angered many.
Columnist Piers Morgan called it: ‘Appallingly insensitive’. Online critics said it showed ‘no empathy for the son of the woman killed’ and TV host Lorraine kelly described it as ‘bizarre’ saying the family ‘can do their Halloween... but they don’t necessarily need to share it at this particular time’.
Mrs Hutchins, 42, was fatally wounded during filming of Baldwin’s low-budget western Rust in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on October 21.
The bullet also hit director Joel Souza in the shoulder.
Baldwin’s .45 Colt revolver was supposed to have been loaded with dummy rounds as he rehearsed a gun battle scene inside a mocked-up church.
Witnesses told the Los Angeles Times that the actor told crew members: ‘So I guess I’m gonna take this out, pull it, and go “Bang!”’ David Halls, the film’s first assistant director, demonstrated drawing the gun three times but did not pull the trigger, insiders said.
Baldwin apparently did pull the trigger when he rehearsed the move, with the muzzle only two feet from Miss Hutchins.
He was paralysed with shock, saying repeatedly: ‘What the f*** just happened?’
As the crew members tried to stop Miss Hutchins bleeding and called for a medic, a sound man looked into her eyes and said: ‘Oh, that was no good.’
She replied: ‘No. That was no good. That was no good at all,’ the report said.
Baldwin has insisted the tragedy was a ‘one-in-a-trillion episode’ but insiders claim the film had been racked by financial cutbacks so serious they had jeopardised safety. On the morning she died, a tearful of Miss Hutchins had tried to sort out a dispute with camera crew over hotel rooms.
Police are still trying to discover how live bullets ended up in the gun.