As part of an appearance at the TV Critics summer press tour to promote an upcoming film, “Seduced and Abandoned,” Alec Baldwin was called on for some comments he had made recently that the worst writers end up covering television.
“Not the ones in this room,” he joked by satellite from his vineyard in Long Island. But he did go on to say that many of them ascirbe to actors things that are beyond their power. “Very few actors huddle up and say let’s go out there and make the most mediocre film we can.”
“Actors really don’t have as much power as you think they have, but they they’re often handed more of a piece of the bill when the thing get skewered,” he said, “than they deserve.
“I found that good television critics are ones who really know what’s going on in the process,” Baldwin said. “And sometimes I read the writing of certain people, and I don’t think they really understand the process that well.”
That said, Baldwin recalled the time he came to the TCA Awards dinner a few years back.
“I was given an award and I wasn’t fully familiar with who the TCA was and what the composition was,” he said. “And I went to the event there in L.A. a few years ago for ’30 Rock’ and I was knocked out by how smart and interesting and I really had I’m not just saying this for your benefit. I had a really, really enjoyable time there.”
Come on back, Alec.
“Seduced and Abandoned,” about trying to secure financing at the Cannes Film Festival, runs Oct. 28 on HBO.