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Interview By: Jeff Wilser
Alec Baldwin is an easy guy to hate. He’s good looking, he’s smug, he’s politically flamboyant, he’s a tabloid monger, and during the ‘90s, he rocketed to a level of superstardom that tends to leaves a sour aftertaste. Once the hottest thing in Hollywood as the original Jack Ryan, more recently, Baldwin provided voices for the videogame Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. The bigger they are . . .
That’s the Alec Baldwin you know. Here’s the one you don’t. After sitting down with him for just fifteen minutes, I learned that: 1) he’s far kinder to the press than is reported; 2) he cares passionately about his charitable causes, and not just for show; 3) he’s always wanted to do a tv sitcom; 4) he thinks that Fox News is, in his owns words, a “crypto-fascist ministry of information”; and 5) yes, he really is that good looking.
Thanks to his role as a shady casino owner in The Cooler, which garnered an Academy Award nomination, Baldwin’s career has made something of a comeback. Next up on the road to recovery is the quirky comedy The Last Shot, in which he plays an FBI agent who pretends to make a movie so that he can entrap a mob boss. In a hotel room at New York’s Regency Hotel, he sat down with TheCinemaSource to discuss The Last Shot.
In person, Alec Baldwin looks exactly the way you imagine him: crisp navy suit, slicked-back hair, and the same imperial stare that’s so commanding onscreen. The tough-guy demeanor softened, though, once he opened up about his enthusiasm for the film and for writer/director Jeff Nathanson. “I wanted to do the film because Nathanson is such a great writer. I loved Catch Me if You Can. When I get scripts, so much of what I read is more cute than funny. But Nathanson’s script was just so dry and clever.”
Baldwin stars alongside Matthew Broderick, and the unlikely pairing is comedic gold, the same kind of opposing-acting-styles-alchemy that worked so well with De Niro and Stiller in Meet the Parents. He explains: “When Jeff told me that he was getting Matthew for the part, that was really the capper for me. Matthew’s one of those people that just is funny himself. He doesn’t really have to do funny things or say funny things. He’s like Jack Benny. He just has to say, ‘Oh, waiter’ and you laugh. The little things he does. When they got Matthew to do this with me I thought, oh God, this is perfect.”
Of course he’s known for his bijllion movies—some good, some great, and let’s face it, many bad—but underneath it all, he’s longed to do a television sitcom of his own: “For a while I was interested in doing ...
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