“This is a marking rehearsal,” he described in the interview. “She’s next to the camera. The camera is here. She’s guiding me through how she wants me to hold the angle. I draw the gun out – the gun wasn’t meant to be fired in that angle.”

He continued: “I’m not shooting to camera lens. I’m holding the gun where she told me to hold it, which turned out to be below her armpit. But we kept doing this…. I start to cock the gun. She said, just ‘cheat it down, could you see that, could you see that.’ I let go of the hammer of the gun, the gun goes off.”

“There are some who say you’re never supposed to point a gun on anyone on a set no matter what,” Stephanopoulos said.

“Unless the person is the cinematographer who’s directing me at where to point the gun for her camera angle,” Baldwin responded. “In terms of the handling of the gun, that day I did exactly what I’ve done every day on that movie. The actor’s responsibility is to do what the prop armorer tells them.”

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