Actor Alec Baldwin revealed he wants to retire from acting after the fallout of Halyna Hutchin’s tragic shooting on the set of his 2025 Western movie, Rust.
Baldwin said the Rust trial was “unspeakably difficult to deal with” during a recent appearance on The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast. The Oscar-nominated actor faced involuntary manslaughter charges after Hutchins, who served as a cinematographer on the movie, was shot and killed by a prop gun on set in 2021. The case was dismissed with prejudice in 2024 in New Mexico, meaning the state cannot pursue the same charges against Baldwin again.
Speaking to THR, the actor admitted he has struggled to return to acting since putting the case behind him.
“Because of the situation, I wound up staying home a lot,” Baldwin confessed. “I was home with my kids for three-and-a-half years — I hardly worked at all — and that’s just changing now.
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