Alec Baldwin Plans To Quit Acting
Actor Alec Baldwin says he has lost interest in acting and considers his film career a failure.
“I don’t have any interest in acting anymore,” Baldwin, 51, told “Men’s Journal” in an interview for its December issue.
Baldwin, best-known for his Emmy-award winning role in the NBC comedy “30 Rock” and the man chosen to co-host the 2010 Oscar ceremony, added: “Movies are a part of my past. It’s been 30 years. I’m not young, but I have time to do something else”.
Baldwin began a television acting career in the 1980s and has filmed scores of movies, including the 1988 cult classic “Beetlejuice”. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in the 2003 film “The Cooler” and stars in the upcoming movie “It’s Complicated” with Meryl Streep and his Oscar co-host Steve Martin.
Men’s Journal quoted Baldwin as saying it was “pretty much it for him” after “30 Rock”, “in a couple of years or so”. He told Playboy Magazine this year he was “done” with his career in 2012 and would retire at “30 Rock”’s wrap party.
“I consider my entire movie career a complete failure,” he told Men’s Journal. “The goal of movie-making is to star in a film where your performance drives the film, and the film is either a soaring critical or commercial success, and I never had that.”
Baldwin said the 1990 action film “The Hunt for Red October”, in which he starred and which made more than $200 million worldwide, was successful because it was based on a popular Tom Clancy novel.
“And now, the movies I’ve been in, I never give them a moment’s thought. Every movie I’ve ever been in, I just avoid,” he said.
Baldwin has expressed interest in politics in the past but did not say in the interview what he intended to do should he quit acting.
Baldwin’s interview with Men’s Journal hits newsstands on Friday.
‘30 Rock’ wins three years in a row
September 21, 2009 by m.coonce · Leave a Comment
The surprises came in the form of new and old at the 61st Primetime Emmys on Sunday as dark horses such as Toni Collette and Kristin Chenoweth beat out the favored winners while veteran actors took home nearly every other acting award.
And though it was hardly a shock that AMC’s “Mad Men” won for the second year in a row for drama series and “30 Rock” won for the third consecutive year for comedy series, repeat wins in drama categories by Glenn Close for lead actress for FX’s “Damages” and Bryan Cranston for AMC’s “Breaking Bad” were not entirely expected.
