bdmetronews Desk ॥ After filming 2006’s “Mini’s First Time” with Nikki Reed, the actor says he “flipped out on the producers.”
Alec Baldwin is not exactly a withholding sort of person, as his new memoir “Nevertheless” makes clear.
The actor, now voicing the title role in the DreamWorks Animation hit “The Boss Baby” and regularly impersonating President Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live,” unleashes a torrent about his life and career — as well as his many co-stars over the years.
Here are some of the highlight stories in the new book.
He’s still pissed Harrison Ford replaced him as Jack Ryan
Baldwin played the CIA operative Jack Ryan in 1990’s “The Hunt for Red October” — but was stunned when Harrison Ford took over the role for the 1992 sequel “Patriot Games.” Baldwin writes that director John McTiernan had asked Ford if he was aware Paramount was still negotiating with Baldwin. “Ford’s reply, according to John, was ‘F– him,’” Baldwin writes.
Later, meeting the star at an L.A. benefit, Baldwin writes: “Ford, in person, is a little man, short, scrawny and wiry, whose soft voice sounds as if it’s coming from behind a door.”
We aren’t taking sides here, but a quick Google search indicates that Baldwin stands 6 feet to Ford’s 6’1.
“Ben Affleck is a prince”
Baldwin is rather dismissive of Michael Bay’s 2001 WWII epic “Pearl Harbor” — “at three hours the movie was severely bloated” — but he offers high (if cryptic) praise for the film’s young star: “Ben Affleck is a prince.”
