Alec Baldwin is shooting family’s TLC reality show during ‘Rust’ trial: ‘It’s full speed ahead’
The show must go on.
Alec Baldwin is in the thick of his involuntary manslaughter trial in New Mexico — but the legal proceedings won’t derail the filming of his upcoming TLC reality show, “The Baldwins.”
In newly surfaced photos, the 66-year-old actor and his family appear to be followed by cameras in Santa Fe, where he is on trial for the October 2021 shooting of Halyna Hutchins, a cinematographer on the set of “Rust.”
The Post has confirmed that they are shooting content for the reality show.
“The filming is full speed ahead,” a TLC source said. “The trial will probably be a storyline.”
Last month, Alec and Hilaria Baldwin announced that the upcoming show will focus on their home life with their seven young kids: Carmen, 10, Rafael, 8, Leonardo, 7, Romeo, 6, Eduardo, 3, Maria, 3, and Iliaria, 1.
The show is expected in early 2025.
But he needs to get through his trial first.
Baldwin is accused of firing the gun that killed Hutchins on the set of the movie “Rust” in October 2021.
According to incident reports, Baldwin allegedly picked up a gun that he didn’t realize was loaded with a live round. Police say that he pointed it at Hutchins and fired once, striking her.
Prosecutors have accused him of reckless behavior that caused the 42-year-old mother’s death.
In an affidavit after the shooting, the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office said that neither Baldwin nor first assistant director David Halls knew that the gun was loaded.
Halls later pleaded guilty to one count of negligent use of a deadly weapon.
The armorer on the set, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in March and sentenced to 18 months in prison. She is appealing her conviction.
New Mexico — like most states — has a Son of Sam law that prohibits criminals from cashing in on their crimes, but it likely won’t apply to Baldwin’s reality show, which is ostensibly about his family.
“It’s not the same thing,” the TLC source said. “There is no conflict here.”
Baldwin’s trial is expected to last 10 days, and the proceedings will be livestreamed on Court TV. He faces up to 18 months in jail if he’s convicted.
On the third day of trial Friday, prosecutors had been expected to call Gutierrez-Reed — who is currently serving 18 months behind bars for the tragic incident — but her testimony was delayed, NBC News reported.
The delay came after Baldwin’s lawyers asked for the trial to be tossed out on the grounds that prosecutors allegedly wrongfully withheld evidence.
The motion prompted Santa Fe Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer to send the jury home for the weekend before they’d heard testimony from any witnesses.
The rest of the day was spent with the judge hearing witness testimony, outside the jury’s presence, about the defense’s claim that prosecutors and investigators hid ammunition that was allegedly connected to the Hutchins murder and that a “good Samaritan” gave to a crime scene technician after Gutierrez-Reed’s trial.
Prosecutor Kari Morrissey called the motion a “wild goose chase” and later in the day volunteered to testify herself.
Additional reporting by Priscilla DeGregory
