Matt Hutchins, husband of the late cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, spoke candidly to Hoda Kotb about the moment he learned of his wife’s tragic death in a new interview with NBC News’ “Today”.
Halyna was shot and killed by a bullet from a prop gun on October 21 while on the set of “Rust” at Bonanza Creek Ranch near Santa Fe, New Mexico.
She was 42. Actor Alec Baldwin was holding the prop gun when it fired but has insisted he never pulled the trigger. Matt relived the heartbreaking moment he had to tell the couple’s nine-year-old son Aldous what had happened. “A member of the production team told me that Halyna had been shot and my heart sank right away.
Completely inexplicable to me that it could’ve happened at that moment. “The first thing I thought… I sat down and I said, ‘I have to get my son.’ I had to be with him. “I rushed home and on the way decided that we had to go to Santa Fe.
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