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Alec Baldwin Would Reportedly Smash Phones ‘to Smithereens’ on Movie Set With Ex Kim Basinger
Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger were reportedly not easy to work with on set of the 1991 film The Marrying Man.
The actors — who met while working on the Neil Simon rom-com in the early ‘90s and later married in August 1993 — created a toxic environment for everyone involved, according to a report from People published Wednesday, October 22.
“Honest to God, if I were destitute and living on the street with no food and somebody offered me a million dollars to work with Alec and Kim, I’d pass,” a senior production staffer told the publication at the time. “Their actions were vile, deplorable, despicable.”
According to People’s sources, Baldwin — who is now married to Hilaria Baldwin — would even engage in somewhat violent behavior.
“He didn’t like it when his phones cut out, so he would slam them against the wall,” a crew member told the outlet. “I don’t know how many phones he smashed to smithereens.”
One time, he was said to throw a director’s chair, which just missed an electrician. (Baldwin, now 67, reportedly apologized.) “Alec would be pissed at whatever wasn’t going right,” a crew member claimed.
Basinger, now 71, was reportedly just as bad, allegedly demanding that the director of photography be fired because she didn’t like the way he made her look. A source also claimed that she wanted to change lines in the script because writer Simon (a three-time Tony Award winner) “didn’t understand comedy.”
According to the New York Post, Ireland recently wrote a candid Substack post about “poisonous” family members ahead of her 30th birthday on Thursday.
In the post, titled “30, Flirty and Surviving” — available only to paid subscribers — Ireland said that she “grew up without two parents in my home and no siblings to turn to,” explaining that she once felt the need “to win over certain people.”
Without specifically naming anyone, she said, “Their validation and praise was meaningful to me. Nothing was more freeing than finally realizing how poisonous these people are. My daughter, [Holland, 2], doesn’t have to know these people. I can protect her from them. I can do my very best to construct my own idea of a family, piece by piece.”
