Alec Baldwin offered a video tribute to the late Robert Redford — and said the iconic actor shared his support in the aftermath of the Rust shooting that left Halyna Hutchins dead.
“When I went through all of what I went through and had to deal with all that in New Mexico, I got a letter when it was over, when it was dismissed and so forth,” Baldwin, 67, claimed in an Instagram video posted on Tuesday, September 16. “I got a letter from Bob Redford. Unsolicited.
According to Baldwin, Redford said he was happy about how things turned out and expressed sympathy for what Baldwin experienced.
“He said, ‘I’m so glad this turned out this way, I’m so sorry [for] what you had to go through,’” Baldwin recalled. “I got the loveliest letter from Robert Redford.”
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Baldwin was referring to the 2021 shooting incident on the set of his movie Rust that killed cinematographer Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza. The 30 Rock actor was holding a prop gun that was not supposed to have real bullets in it that went off during filming. The Emmy winner denied any wrongdoing.
Baldwin later faced criminal charges over the incident, but the case was dropped in July 2024 due to alleged misconduct by prosecutors. In October of that year, a judge ruled his manslaughter case won’t be reopened despite pleas from prosecutors.
The Emmy winner was one of many stars to pay tribute to Redford, who died on Tuesday at age 89. (A cause of death has not been revealed.)
Barbra Streisand, who starred alongside Redford in 1973’s The Way We Were, shared a heartfelt tribute to her former costar via Instagram.
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“Every day on the set of The Way We Were was exciting, intense and pure joy,” the Oscar winner, 83, wrote alongside a photo with Redford. “We were such opposites: he was from the world of horses; I was allergic to them! Yet, we kept trying to find out more about each other, just like the characters in the movie.”
She continued, “Bob was charismatic, intelligent, intense, always interesting — and one of the finest actors ever. The last time I saw him, when he came to lunch, we discussed art and decided to send each other our first drawings. He was one of a kind and I’m so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with him.”
Jane Fonda, who starred with Redford in several films, said she couldn’t stop crying after his death.
“It hit me hard this morning when I read that Bob was gone. I can’t stop crying,” the Klute actress, 87, told Us Weekly in a statement on Tuesday. “He meant a lot to me and was a beautiful person in every way. He stood for an America we have to keep fighting for.”
