Alec Baldwin: America Wanted Me 'to Die' After 'Rust' Shooting

Alec Baldwin has opened up about the wave of hatred aimed at him after the fatal shooting on the set of his film "Rust," revealing that people didn't just want him to be canceled, they wanted him to be dead.

The actor spoke candidly during an appearance on David Duchovny's "Fail Better" podcast about the aftermath that unfolded following the accidental shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, saying that there's more to come."

Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter charge was ultimately dismissed in July, preventing him from being retried for the shooting of cinematographer Hutchins. The decision came after a judge ruled that prosecutors had withheld key evidence from Baldwin's defense team.

Baldwin has consistently denied pulling the trigger on the prop gun that discharged, leading to Hutchins' death and injuring the film's director, Joel Souza. The film's armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to 18 months in prison for her role in the incident.

"The more to come is now my effort, and it's going to be undeniably a successful effort, to raise and to expose what really happened," Baldwin, 66, said on Duchovny's podcast. "I was counterpunching. I was on the defensive. I was being accused. I was being indicted."

Baldwin stated that, in the three years since the fatal shooting, the media "suppressed every story that could benefit me and amplified every story that could hurt me."

"The truth of what happened has never been told. Never," he said. "We have more [expletive] that's going to come out in ensuing legal filings and so forth."

Reflecting on the last three years, Baldwin said until now, "people have just dined out."

"Because in this country, when people hate you on that level, they want three things. They want you to die," he said.

Secondly, he continued, people want their enemies to go to prison "because prison is like a living hell."

"The third thing is they want you canceled, which is like being in prison or being dead because you roam the earth, and you're invisible," he said. "I do believe that, by the communications I've had lately, things are coming back my way to work, and I'm happy for that because I've got seven kids. But I've also enjoyed the fact that there's so much of this case that is not known because we didn't have a full trial."

Looking ahead, Baldwin added that he was going to "take a break."

"I don't want to talk about this for a while. I want to kind of, you know, take a nap."

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