Alec Baldwin has told film festival goers in Colorado that he believes he is the subject of lawsuits regarding a fatal shooting on the Rust movie set because of his money.
Mr Baldwin's comments, captured on video by CNN at a moderated event at the Boulder International Film Festival, also implied those who are responsible for the on-set tragedy last year have been spared legal action.
"What you have is a certain group of litigants on whatever side, who their attitude is, well, the people who likely seem negligent have enough money, and the people who have money are not negligent, but we're not going to let that stop us from doing what we need to do in terms of litigation," Mr Baldwin said.
"So we have people who are suing people they think are deep pockets litigants.
Mr Baldwin is being sued by the family of slain cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, as well as script supervisor Mamie Mitchell, who made the initial call to emergency services following the shooting.
Mr Baldwin did not specify which lawsuit he was referring to in his comments.
During the panel, Mr Baldwin reiterated his stance that he was not to blame for the incident.
"When someone whose job it is to ensure the safety of the weapon hands someone else whose job was to be the secondary layer of protection for safety and they hand it over to and you declare that that weapon is safe — that's how I've lived my whole life,” he said.
"I've relied on the safety experts there to declare the gun is safe and hand me the gun. Never had a problem."
Hutchins was killed in October, 2021, when a revolver that Mr Baldwin was rehearsing with during filming in New Mexico fired a live round that hit her and movie director Joel Souza, who survived.
