Alec Baldwin has been slammed for his “insane” tribute to Sam Neill after sharing a video online.
Alec Baldwin blasted for ‘insane’ Sam Neill tribute
The actor took to his social media pages to post the tribute to Neill, with whom he starred in 1990 action movie The Hunt For Red October.
However, the fact that he used the video to name drop an astonishing amount of co-stars led to him being labelled a “narcissist” by social media users.
Alec began his video by saying: “I just wanted to come on here quickly and say, how stricken I was to learn of the death of Sam Neill. When I did The Hunt for Red October, we shot in ’89, it came out in 1990, a long time ago.
“And that was probably my first big movie in terms of having a, a decent-sized role, ’cause I’d done Working Girl and Beetlejuice and things like that, where I had a smaller role. And I do Hunt for Red October and, yes, John [McTiernan] is a great director and, um, one of the most exciting parts of it was, for me, was to meet Tom Clancy.”
Alec continued to name more than 12 of his and Sam’s castmates on the film, as he said: “There’s a lot of other people in there who I enjoyed working with, but my God, my God. What an experience that was.
‘What an experience it was to do that movie with those people. I mean, every time you turned around to do a scene, you were with this great actor.’
He then went on to tell an unrelated story about Ron Grutman, before finally mentioning Sam again as he concluded his video.
He said: “That is one of the few movies I have ever done where I remember the whole movie. That’s what a fan I am of that work. Not me. I’m not a fan of my work but I am a fan of their work.
“Anyway, oh my God. My God. Sam Neill. My love to his family, My love to his family.”
Some social media users took to Reddit to weigh in on Alec’s tribute, with one sighing: “This is a man who is thinking about his own eventual death because of the death of a colleague, instead of eulogising the colleague at all.”
While another said the “narcissism is insane”, someone else said: “So many name drops it’s like a slow, meandering version of We Didn’t Start The Fire.”
Others were on hand to defend Alec, with one writing: “He’s just vibing with memories, sometimes old people ramble haha.
“I think this sounds kinda normal for someone getting up there in age.”
