“Will correct that last tweet to say Alec Baldwin *killed* someone— not murdered someone, as murder carries a different legal definition.”
How does she know? Knowing what a hot head amd lunatic he is, it very well could be true he shot her on purpose. Why did he point the gun at her? She wasn’t an actress, she wasn’t acting in any scene.
Knowing just enough about filmmaking to be dangerous (me, or Alec?) I know that it takes a lot of work. 100s if not 1000s of shots in every movie. They have to set up every shot. They have wide shots with many actors. They have close-up shots of one actor. And the editor puts them all together to make the film to build suspense and action for the audience.
From the photos that the PR people put out, Alec appears to be wearing street clothes. So I don’t think they were doing filming at the time. They were probably just setting up the camera angles and lighting for some shot of Alec pointing a weapon, and Alec was there preparing for the scene so they could get the lighting and camera angle set up for later when he came in fully costumed later. Just my guess. Thus, the cinematographer (the person who operates the camera and controls the lighting) would have been right in the line of fire if they were setting up for a solo shot of the principle actor pointing a weapon.
Still Alec cannot evade complete culpability imo. He had the weapon in his hand. Misfire or not, whether someone else put a live round in his gun or not, he caused the death of someone else. He should have checked the weapon at a minimum. I understand that in movies they do have to point the weapon at other people (which in the real world is a big no-no unless you intend to kill). That’s the responsibility of anybody holding a weapon.