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Alec Baldwin Says ‘Rust’ Shooting Has Cost Him Five Jobs: “It’s Taken Years Off My Life”

<p>It&&num;8217&semi;s been nearly a year since Alec Baldwin set off a gun on the set of &&num;8216&semi;Rust&comma;&&num;8217&semi; which took the life of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins&period; Since then&comma; the actor&&num;8211&semi;who has sustained a successful career for more than two decades&&num;8211&semi;has been catching backlash across social media&comma; but it looks like he&&num;8217&semi;s been impacted in some other areas as well&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Baldwin recently spoke to CNN&comma; revealing that he&&num;8217&semi;s lost five projects since the passing of Hutchins&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>I got fired from another job yesterday&period; There I was all set to go to a movie&comma; jump on a plane&&num;8230&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;ve been talking with these guys for months and they told me yesterday&comma; &&num;8216&semi;We don&&num;8217&semi;t want to do the film with you because of this&period;'&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>He spoke candidly about fearing for his life after it was assumed he purposely shot Hutchins&comma; a narrative started by Donald Trump&comma; and said that the stress he&&num;8217&semi;s endured has &&num;8220&semi;taken years off &lbrack;his&rsqb; life&period;&&num;8221&semi; Through it all&comma; Alec Baldwin says his family has held him down and helped him overcome the tragedy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>If I didn&&num;8217&semi;t have my wife&comma; I don&&num;8217&semi;t know where I would be right now&&num;8230&semi; If I didn&&num;8217&semi;t have her&comma; I probably would have quit&comma; retired&comma; gone off&comma; you know&comma; sold everything I owned&comma; got a house in the middle of nowhere and just&comma; you know&comma; did find something else todo&comma; sell real estate&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>After news of the shooting broke&comma; Baldwin maintained that the firearm was not meant to be loaded with a live bullet&comma; stating that props assistant Hannah Gutierrez-Reed made a terrible mistake on set that day&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>Someone put a live bullet in the gun who should have known better&period; That was &lbrack;Gutierrez-Reed&&num;8217&semi;s&rsqb; job&period; Her job was to look at the ammunition and put in the dummy round or the blank round&comma; and there wasn&&num;8217&semi;t supposed to be any live rounds on the set&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;p&sol;CWBHBpWrhPs&sol;&quest;utm&lowbar;source&equals;ig&lowbar;embed&&num;038&semi;utm&lowbar;campaign&equals;loading" data-instgrm-version&equals;"14" style&equals;" background&colon;&num;FFF&semi; max-width&colon;658px&semi; min-width&colon;326px&semi; padding&colon;0&semi; width&colon;99&period;375&percnt;&semi; width&colon;-webkit-calc&lpar;100&percnt; - 2px&rpar;&semi; width&colon;calc&lpar;100&percnt; - 2px&rpar;&semi;"><div>&NewLine; <iframe class&equals;"custom-ig-embed" data-src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;p&sol;CWBHBpWrhPs&sol;embed&sol;captioned" allowtransparency&equals;"true" allowfullscreen&equals;"true" frameborder&equals;"0" height&equals;"640px" scrolling&equals;"no" style&equals;"background&colon;&num;FFF&semi; 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