Alec Baldwin says it is a "lie" that he asked for a bigger gun just before the fatal shooting at Rust.

Dust has not subsided over the unfortunate incident of the shooting of the movie "Rust", when the actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot the producer Halina Hutchins and wounded the director Joel Souza. So after being asked to hand over his phone for review, Baldwin also commented on speculation that he had asked for a bigger gun to shoot the film.

"This is, in fact, a lie. The selection for any of my props for the movie "Rust" was made a few weeks before the production started. "To suggest that any changes were made 'before the fatal shooting' is false," the actor wrote on Twitter with a link to the Newsweek story, who held the gun with which he accidentally shot and killed Halina Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza. .

His comments came after the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Department filed a search warrant to obtain Baldwin's cell phone - and it was approved. The submission included a statement from Detective Alexandra Hancock detailing the findings of the investigation.

It is said that when he was interviewed immediately after the shooting at the ranch Bonanza Creek.

"Alec described the gun as a 'period' Colt. He said there was an exchange of emails between Hannah Gutierrez Reed and him where she introduced him to more styles of guns. He said he asked for a bigger gun, and she showed him different styles of production knives. "Alec was shown a Colt with a brown handle, and a sherry handle, and in the end he chose the one with the brown handle."

The documentation suggests that this was a pre-production conversation - not on the day of filming. The documents state that during the search of Hutchins's phone, there were conversations about Rust production that date back to July - three months before Hutchins was killed on October 21. Production officially began on October 6.

The statement also details how Baldwin was brought to the interview room at 17:12 p.m., advised of his rights, and agreed to speak with detectives. He recounted how in the scene he recorded that day, "he slowly took the gun out of the holster, and then very dramatically turned it and hit the hammer, which is when the gun fired. He said it was supposed to be a "cold gun" and all bullets in the gun were to be "blanks" or "fake" bullets ". However, as we now know, there was a live round in the gun - and other live ammunition found on the set.

"Alec recalled that when the gun exploded, he could think of Halina, who was right in front of him, falling to the ground, and Joel, who started screaming," the report said.