has been blasted for his nearly three-minute rambling tribute to former co-star Sam Neill
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Baldwin Faces Backlash for Narcissistic Tribute
Alec Baldwin has been blasted for his nearly three-minute rambling tribute to former co-star Sam Neill who passed away at 78 earlier this week.The 68-year-old a...
The68-year-old actor was called 'insane' and narcissistic' as he posted a video of himself eulogizing the talented New Zealand star of Jurassic Park on Instagram Monday.
As the two had starred on 1990 classic action thriller The Hunt For Red October together, he talked a lot about his experience on set, however, he only mentioned the late Neill in the first ten seconds and last five seconds of the two-minute and 47-second clip.
Users on subreddit /r/fauxmoi/ slammed the post on Tuesday as one wrote: 'this is a man who is thinking about his own eventual death because of the death of a colleague, instead of eulogizing the colleague at all.'
'The narcissism is insane' another wrote while a different user said: 'So many name drops it's like a slow, meandering version of We Didn't Start The Fire.'
There were some who did defend Baldwin however.
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Alec Baldwin has been blasted for his nearly three-minute rambling tribute to former co-star Sam Neill who passed away at 78 earlier this week
As the two had starred on 1990 classic action thriller The Hunt For Red October together, he talked a lot about his experience on set (Neill is pictured in the film)
One reddit user said: 'He’s just vibing with memories, sometimes old people ramble haha, I think this sounds kinda normal for someone getting up there in age.'
Baldwin began the rambling tribute 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.
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The New Zealand actor – who starred in blockbusters such as Jurassic Park and The Piano – died in hospital in Sydney on Monday
'More details will be shared later, but for now, on behalf of the family, we ask that you respect their privacy as they navigate this immeasurable loss.'
In April, Neill – who is best known for playing Alan Grant in the Jurassic Park franchise – announced tests had found he was cancer-free.
In an interview with Channel Seven, Neill detailed how close he came to death after chemotherapy stopped working. It was instead a costly, cutting-edge treatment that then prolonged his life.
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Neill said: 'I've been living with a particular type of lymphoma for about five years and I was on chemotherapy and it's a pretty miserable business, but it was keeping me alive.
'Then the chemo stopped working. I was at a loss and it looked like I was on the way out, which wasn't ideal obviously.'
Neill underwent a special treatment called CAR T-cell therapy, which genetically modifies a patient's own T-cells to recognise and destroy cancer cells. Private treatment costs around $540k USD.