Actor Alec Baldwin is facing criticism for a 2017 tweet he posted in which he questions “how it must feel to wrongfully kill someone.”
On Thursday, Baldwin, 63, was at the center of a Hollywood tragedy that unfolded on the set of the movie “Rust.” Authorities said that Baldwin fired a prop gun on a movie set that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Director Joel Souza was identified as the crew member taken to the hospital. He has since been released, “Rust” star Frances Fisher claimed on Twitter.
Twitter users are now zeroing in on Baldwin’s past social media activity and one glaring tweet he posted on Sept. 22, 2017 reads: “I wonder how it must feel to wrongfully kill someone...” The tweet also included a link to a Los Angeles Times article about a Huntington Beach police officer who was captured on video struggling with a suspect in a parking lot of a convenience store before shooting the man several times, killing him.
“this did not age well,” one Twitter user wrote on the thread of Baldwin’s tweet.
How does a “prop” gun kill someone?
Pretty sure Baldwin will claim ‘justifiable’ homicide... Because after all... He is a privileged white actor.
Nobody forced him to make this movie.
You shouldn’t play with things you don’t understand.
Is he facing backlash? That’s nothing. On judgment day man will have to give an account for every idle word that we have spoken. That should be enough to keep this loudmouth from spouting off hatefully, like he usually does.
Did he pass a background check for the “prop” gun?
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To paraphrase Dave Chappelle, Twitter is not a real place. The real story is, and always has been, that Alec Baldwin shot and killed a woman.
“Prop” guns don’t accept and fire real bullets, and an accidental or negligent discharge is still a discharge. Mean or snarky tweets trying to impose shame or bad feelings is nothing compared to the loss of an actual life. Wasn’t too long ago that major media outlets actually had editorial desks with people who know that.
Firearm safety on a movie set is not the actor’s responsibility - that rests with the armorer or prop boss. Alec Baldwin is a jackass, but I don’t think this is his fault.
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It obviously wasn’t a prop.
I don’t much care for Baldwin but he was set up by the crew handling the prop gun. Why did they load it with a real round?
I have to give him a pass. Killing someone, especially unintentionally is devastating.
Baldwin is a loud mouthed bully, but will live the rest of his life with this terrible deed.
As irrational as Baldwin is sometimes, I would not be surprised if he chambered a live round or switched firearms to injure someone he disliked.
I would love to see some close up photos of the firearm used, the bullet that went through one and struck another, and the ammo cases that were in that firearm.
Why was he aiming it at her?
This was NOT an accident. Baldwin pointed a gun at her and pulled the trigger. It was NOT part of a scene...
Baldwin probably isn’t culpable in this. The armorer and the 1st AD and prop-master are probably negligent. It’s a low-budget movie and there were safety concerns before this incident happened.
Being the pathological, egomaniacal hothead from the day he was born, now that he knows what it’s like to kill someone. And, being a leftist, he probably got off on it.