[Opinion] Alec Baldwin Doc Director Rory Kennedy Talks Rust Trial

Director Rory Kennedy on ‘The Trial of Alec Baldwin’: “If This Was Tom Hanks or Julia Roberts, I Don’t Think This Would Have Gone to Trial”

The director's Alec Baldwin film asks how social media and public opinion can affect legal proceedings.

Alec Baldwin Doc Director Rory Kennedy Talks Rust Trial

In 2021 on the set of independent feature film Rust, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot after a live round was discharged from a prop gun that was being used by the film’s star, Alec Baldwin. After the tragedy, there was near-continuous coverage of the shooting, investigation and subsequent legal fallout, including in the lead-up […]