View Full Version : Alec Baldwin threatened to assault a 30 Rock director, new book alleges


TMC
11-23-2021, 08:44 PM
https://nypost.com/2021/11/22/alec-baldwin-once-threatened-to-assault-30-rock-director-says-book/

In the upcoming book The 30 Rock Book: Inside the Iconic Show, from Blerg to EGOT, author Mike Roe reports that director Adam Bernstein angered Baldwin during filming of Season 1 simply by holding his thumbs up to frame a shot. “According to (editor Doug) Abel, Alec turned to (Bernstein) and said that if he did that one more time, he was going to assault him. And he didn’t say it with a smile on his face,” writes Roe in the book, which will be released on Nov. 30. Abel believes the animosity led Bernstein, who shared an Emmy for his work on 30 Rock Season 1, to leave the show after only six episodes. Bernstein, the husband of Friends alum Jessica Hecht, went on to direct Fargo and eight episodes of Breaking Bad.

icecream
11-23-2021, 10:48 PM
That sounds like him. Alec Baldwin is a total prince of a guy. :crazy: :rolleyes2

TMC
02-04-2022, 09:06 PM
That sounds like him. Alec Baldwin is a total prince of a guy. :crazy: :rolleyes2

https://www.nickiswift.com/757708/the-most-difficult-actors-in-hollywood/

In another "The 30 Rock Book" (https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_30_Rock_Book/jbkdEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=The+30+Rock+Book:+Inside+the+Iconic+Show,+from+Blerg+to+EGOT+and+said+that+if+he+did+that+one+more+time,+he+was+going+to+assault+him.+And+he+didn%E2%80%99t+say+it+with+a+smile+on+his+face&pg=PT141&printsec=frontcover) story (via New York Post (https://nypost.com/2021/11/22/alec-baldwin-once-threatened-to-assault-30-rock-director-says-book/)), Baldwin apparently went toe-to-toe with co-star Elaine Stritch after she added "an extra line" to the end of a scene. According to the book, Baldwin snapped, "Don't you last word me, you. It's my laugh-line, you b***h."