Actor Alec Baldwin revealed he wants to retire from acting after the fallout of Halyna Hutchin’s tragic shooting on the set of his 2025 Western movie, Rust.
Baldwin said the Rust trial was “unspeakably difficult to deal with” during a recent appearance on The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast. The Oscar-nominated actor faced involuntary manslaughter charges after Hutchins, who served as a cinematographer on the movie, was shot and killed by a prop gun on set in 2021. The case was dismissed with prejudice in 2024 in New Mexico, meaning the state cannot pursue the same charges against Baldwin again.
Speaking to THR, the actor admitted he has struggled to return to acting since putting the case behind him.
“Because of the situation, I wound up staying home a lot,” Baldwin confessed. “I was home with my kids for three-and-a-half years — I hardly worked at all — and that’s just changing now. I’m going to go off and do a bunch of things. But I was home and I got used to it, and I don’t want to leave my house anymore. I don’t want to work anymore. I want to retire and stay home with my kids.”
Baldwin is a father of seven children, whom he shares with his wife Hilaria Baldwin. The couple’s life together – and their experience throughout the Rust trial – were captured in the short-lived TLC reality show, The Baldwins, which aired for a single season in 2025.
But Baldwin’s career shows no signs of slowing down.
According to his IMDb, the actor will be appearing in a movie about Kent State, as well as a thriller titled Kockroach, starring Chris Hemsworth and Channing Tatum, and the upcoming comedy National Lampoon’s Hollywood Hustle.
Since the trial was dismissed, Baldwin has taken aim at the prosecutors involved in the case.
Baldwin was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter that were later dropped. He was then charged with involuntary manslaughter again in 2024, though the case was ultimately dismissed.
The actor claimed, “They tried to get me, and they didn’t get me, and they cheated and broke the law to get me, and it’s just been tough.”
Baldwin filed a malicious prosecution lawsuit against the prosecutors in the case in 2025, accusing them of “malicious abuse of process, intentional spoliation of evidence, defamation, and violation of the New Mexico Civil Rights Act,” per People.
He claimed they had a “desire to convict” him “for all the wrong reasons, and at any cost.”