Alec Baldwin has explained why he did some films just for the money, saying that being an actor is like plumbing – you need “to make a living”.
The 51-year-old makes his comments in an interview with Wired magazine, listing his lifetime of failures.
“I needed to make a living,” the actor says about some of his films which were panned.
“People don’t realise actors are like plumbers. When you invite a plumber to your house and say, ‘I want you to put this sink in my bathroom’, the plumber doesn’t say, ‘I’m not going to install that sink, it’s hideous. You have the worst taste in sinks’!
“No, he just says, ‘OK’ and he puts it in.”
And the actor isn’t afraid to name – and shame – one of his recent box office disasters – a romantic comedy starring Kate Hudson.
“My Best Friend’s Girl had one of the worst scripts I’ve ever read in my life,” Baldwin says about the 2008 flop. “The movie was a huge disaster. Scathing reviews. And I realised, ‘I’m done with doing it for the money’.”
