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    Having been an actor on television, film and stage for almost 30 years, Alec Baldwin is one of the most well-known figures in the industry. His role as Jack Donaghy in sitcom 30 Rock saw him become the male performer with the most Screen Actors' Guild Awards. He has received worldwide attention for his portrayal of Donald Trump in Saturday Night Live, and is currently filming his role in the latest Mission: Impossible film.
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Komentáře • 163

  • @deathroll914
    @deathroll914 Před 2 lety +5

    He’s incredibly focused when speaking. He really transports himself back to the moment he is remembering when he retells his memories. He is very upset by sounds/distractions that disturb his recollection. Brilliant man but very stubbornly caught in his own world.

  • @AtlantisStarseed8
    @AtlantisStarseed8 Před 4 lety +22

    Alec Baldwin very articulate well versed American actor. Well done interview.

    • @roviannematovu8136
      @roviannematovu8136 Před 3 lety

      I agree. Treat & pleasure. His brother Billy is also a delight. What an impressive family

  • @thomasjust2663
    @thomasjust2663 Před 5 lety +18

    He seems very inteligent, has a very good memory and has a strong point of view

  • @durham6551
    @durham6551 Před 5 lety +21

    Brilliant man and a great actor. Watch Glengarry Glenross.

    • @bluesboy54321
      @bluesboy54321 Před 4 lety +3

      Hear hear..
      Awsome film, I thought Jack Lemmon was fabulous in it, as was everyone else

  • @whyter11
    @whyter11 Před 6 lety +20

    "Hollywood was a small, incestuous community" ~ A. Baldwin

  • @ozdorothyfan
    @ozdorothyfan Před 3 lety +8

    He's an eloquent man, clearly very well read and thoughtful. Just occurred to me that he's the polar opposite of Trump in that respect.

    • @p.g.reitsma7245
      @p.g.reitsma7245 Před 3 lety +2

      As we're finding out now, he's opposite to President Trump in another way. Melania doesn't lie about her heritage or fake an accent.

    • @gingerale1861
      @gingerale1861 Před 2 lety +1

      Trump never shot anyone! So ya

  • @tkenglander6226
    @tkenglander6226 Před 3 lety +6

    What a wonderful interview!! Alec Baldwin sounds like a thoughtful, honest and straightforward guy. :-)

  • @michaelcullen5308
    @michaelcullen5308 Před 6 lety +21

    One of the best interviews I’ve seen with an actor, purely because Baldwin knows how to field terrible questions. “What’s your favourite role” is something a ten-year-old would ask. Questions aside, very entertaining.

  • @brachema
    @brachema Před 3 lety +4

    Very good point that Alec made her, about wanting to act, then wanting to be famous!!.
    Good comparison, great guy and very down to earth and mature.

  • @ncooty
    @ncooty Před 5 lety +9

    The interviewer seemed stilted and obtuse. He just said he arrived from taking his daughter to the hospital, yet the interviewer goes straight to her notes about his brothers' acting careers.

    • @tillyt4054
      @tillyt4054 Před 4 lety +1

      ncooty she’s not a professional interviewer she’s an Oxford student ! Clue is in the title

    • @danielw5850
      @danielw5850 Před 4 lety +3

      I registered that, too; a little courtesy would've been to ask after her, as Q1.

  • @francisalbert252
    @francisalbert252 Před 2 lety +4

    Such an interesting , intelligent and articulate fellow . I could listen to him all day

    • @memelord9965
      @memelord9965 Před 2 lety

      An intelligent fellow who shot someone without checking the gun

  • @steveconn
    @steveconn Před 5 lety +30

    I love all these youtube interviews with Alec. Just the company of a smart, classy guy.

  • @bigbrother8285
    @bigbrother8285 Před 2 lety +9

    Maybe SNL will have Trump on to do a cheeky impression of Alec Baldwin killing a woman.

  • @tattarrrrattat
    @tattarrrrattat Před 6 lety +24

    The. Man. Can. Talk.

  • @kelpf4rming97
    @kelpf4rming97 Před 3 lety +4

    legend in his own mind.

  • @HebrewsElevenTwentyFive
    @HebrewsElevenTwentyFive Před 6 lety +6

    Wonderful.

  • @pedrobaldo2045
    @pedrobaldo2045 Před 6 lety +6

    The amazing thing about Alec is that he puts the common good above (and beyond !!) the self ! He's just such a trustworthy (and believable) person ... I admire and respect him for his insight, and ethical beliefs. In such a darned age when morals and social values are battered and viciously neglected and scuffed at, he's the glimpse of light at the end of the long, dark tunnel. And I believe he's wrong about political awareness of actors: there you have, Merryl Streep and his good-old self ! Loved to have watched this. Thanks.

  • @gerbear3227
    @gerbear3227 Před 3 lety +5

    very interesting man........i always liked Alec as an actor but now even more so..........he is is also one of the luckiest men on earth to be once married to the gorgeous Kim Basinger!

  • @yvonnereuben2761
    @yvonnereuben2761 Před 2 lety +1

    Who wouldn’t like Alec? Love anything he does.

  • @blainemair2686
    @blainemair2686 Před 3 lety +2

    Alec is a great man, thanks

  • @alanleech37
    @alanleech37 Před 3 lety +2

    30:Rock

  • @stephenmcdonald664
    @stephenmcdonald664 Před 6 lety +11

    Politics aside, this was an excellent interview. It's obvious that Mr. Baldwin felt more comfortable and was more candid addressing a non-American audience. As a Canadian, I'm concerned about a Trump-led United States and it was nice to hear that most Americans are too.

    • @eme.261
      @eme.261 Před 4 lety +1

      @Concerned4 USA -- Get a grip, lunatic.

    • @eme.261
      @eme.261 Před 4 lety +1

      Stephen McDonald -- Alec is like this in most consequential interviews. I attended one of his at the NY Public Library in Bryant Park. He was just was open and insightful.

  • @longford43
    @longford43 Před 6 lety +2

    I actually want to hate Alec Baldwin ( he is brudish , arogent and in some cases abusive) but I simply can't. He is extremely intelligent and I wish he would offer his talents and intellect to the highest office in our country.

  • @juliepoppy1021
    @juliepoppy1021 Před 4 lety +1

    He's right, and this has completely corrected my perception.

  • @jayhalley2642
    @jayhalley2642 Před 5 lety +2

    Hard to get better than AB

  • @findkip
    @findkip Před 4 lety +2

    One of the great Americans

  • @keithn4793
    @keithn4793 Před 4 lety +2

    Is that a Fred Perry polo shirt he’s wearing

  • @mrmaaical8727
    @mrmaaical8727 Před 6 lety +7

    Love Alec Baldwin....

  • @NefariousPorpoise
    @NefariousPorpoise Před 5 lety +7

    The people asking the questions in these just sit waiting to read the next question. They should just put them on a prompter and let him speak, she's completely superfluous.

    • @Dexcab
      @Dexcab Před 4 lety +2

      Exactly. And the questions are completely asinine. This is Oxford... they don't have ANY students who can come up with more interesting questions, or who are able to hold an actual articulate conversation? Especially considering the calibre of guests they attract?

  • @JeffreyGillespie
    @JeffreyGillespie Před 2 lety +1

    Amazing guy. Old school class.

  • @mauriciomm2261
    @mauriciomm2261 Před 5 lety +2

    @59:07 - The Deutsche Mark? What year was this interview taped?

  • @mrlij6534
    @mrlij6534 Před 2 měsíci

    Baldwin actually speaks very well when he isnt in crazy mode, lol.

  • @MrJiffyPOPPOP
    @MrJiffyPOPPOP Před 6 lety +1

    Happy birthday

  • @chelseacorbin1525
    @chelseacorbin1525 Před 2 lety +1

    The awkward water pour.

  • @danielw5850
    @danielw5850 Před 4 lety +4

    I lost count of the host, starting with, "So" :( It's SO depressing!

  • @zachperkinsdecker6186
    @zachperkinsdecker6186 Před 4 lety +1

    "The Shadow knows HAHAHAHAHA"

  • @brainsareus
    @brainsareus Před 6 lety +2

    wonderful chat

  • @anandpatel726
    @anandpatel726 Před 2 lety +1

    Who is the interviewer? She's fit as

    • @harrypaul2718
      @harrypaul2718 Před 2 lety +1

      Yeah second most beautiful Woman in the world.

    • @anandpatel726
      @anandpatel726 Před 2 lety

      @@harrypaul2718 I need a name mate not something stated that's already obvious

  • @pedrobaldo2045
    @pedrobaldo2045 Před 6 lety +1

    One last comment about how he handled the slippery questions on Woody Allen and Kevin Spacey... PERFECT. By the way, my heart goes out to Kevin Spacey (don't know what he does during the weekends !), but HE IS also a very socially conscious person, and has been very supportive of the suffering that Venezuelans have been subjected to, SINCE THE BEGINNING, even when Chavez was blubbering and puffing his way around, (early 2000's), and SPOKE OUT against him. Not like the infamous Glover or Sean Penn, who went courting the tyrant. Big PLUS for Kevin there.

    • @sregan5415
      @sregan5415 Před 4 lety +3

      "Don't know what he does during the weekends !"

  • @Avasive
    @Avasive Před 6 lety

    The Original Rayan

  • @nancykraus5127
    @nancykraus5127 Před 2 lety

    HIs comments on spousal abuse are spot on. No matter what they seem to always arrest the man no matter what. Even, as had happened in my family, even when it was the man that called to police reporting the abuse and attempt to stab him by his wife!

  • @bdre5555
    @bdre5555 Před 2 lety

    Our toxic culture now really is quite sickening. People are often hung before they even get a trial.

  • @youlittlerocket
    @youlittlerocket Před 6 lety

    Beetlejuice X3 I dare not say it

  • @marka.200
    @marka.200 Před 5 lety +3

    I'd vote for Alec for president before I'd vote for Oprah.

  • @bdre5555
    @bdre5555 Před 2 lety

    I grew up watching him and I love his style and acting techniques. Malice is one of his best performances

  • @nononouh
    @nononouh Před rokem

    16

  • @Algerianedits
    @Algerianedits Před 3 lety

    Shocking he narritated thomas and friends

  • @jaja5870
    @jaja5870 Před rokem +1

    What so he didn't get triggered like he usually does? 😏

  • @agunsux
    @agunsux Před 5 lety +2

    Do they have Mel Gibson as their guest?

  • @rossl5908
    @rossl5908 Před 2 lety +1

    Good on Alec for standing up for Woody. Mia Farrow is a toxic person who went on a smear campaign after Allen married their adopted daughter (weird) but still not pedophilia by my estimations

  • @janemccallum
    @janemccallum Před měsícem

    Droning on about his attitude on the questions, who's interested, very abusive, loud individual sadly
    Great actor but likes his own voice and who's interested in his offsprings health why he's late

  • @neilrulz24
    @neilrulz24 Před 5 lety +2

    Does he not know the euro exists??

  • @peterz53
    @peterz53 Před 6 lety +1

    squandering is right

  • @alicat1328
    @alicat1328 Před 2 lety

    Okay people he’s an actor. An Actors craft are Words. Don’t get so excited which is American public’s issue #1 = celebrity worship! Is he good at reciting back “other “ people’s words given to him, yes. Is he somewhat attractive, yes. But at the end of the day, he’s in a profession where people continuously make themselves up and are made up, and where ALL take themselves way too seriously. And recall have a 100-person entourage all devoted to making them look good. Way too verbose and suspect the “ actor” Alec is probably not all too much like the “ real” one, if there even is a real one. or why all the law suits - just saying.

  • @jhobbs2004
    @jhobbs2004 Před 6 lety +1

    Better still have some of that gold dust.

  • @brainsareus
    @brainsareus Před 6 lety

    That hot Spaniard wife of yours; is knocked up again, Alec?!
    bru,I hope you got a good pre-nup, dude.

  • @RonaldL.MAngela.vaught17HH

    This guy I was connected too to promote him, but I have to promote myself but I like his ideals their are similar, is the foundation of America there? To support our progressive ideals in the Goobers world non denominational or ethnic background.

  • @juliepoppy1021
    @juliepoppy1021 Před 4 lety +1

    I will say that though the interviewer only chose people of her own colour to ask questions.

    • @paulmccarthy7512
      @paulmccarthy7512 Před 4 lety

      Positive discrimination no more no less..

    • @juliepoppy1021
      @juliepoppy1021 Před 4 lety

      @@paulmccarthy7512 really? I had been lead down the rabbit hole about him, thru the press and this interview, turned my entire thinking about him around. But I would have liked so of his country men or women to ask some questions. Just saying.

    • @juliepoppy1021
      @juliepoppy1021 Před 4 lety

      @@paulmccarthy7512 surely not

  • @daisyroots
    @daisyroots Před 6 lety +5

    We've swept so much under the rug.....? We've faltered? but we just had 8 years of Obama ...?

  • @RonaldL.MAngela.vaught17HH

    if is what I meant to say. It’s got to be free & free it is if you say it is & you act in that stage of freedom.

  • @brainsareus
    @brainsareus Před 5 lety +3

    trumps wife ain't so lovely, though.

  • @ronaldroach3255
    @ronaldroach3255 Před 6 lety

    Read my comments

  • @rhwinner
    @rhwinner Před 6 lety +2

    Alec Baldwin? At Oxford? Pfft. Let them invite someone like Mark Levin. Now, _that_ I would watch. :o

  • @lancegoodthrust546
    @lancegoodthrust546 Před 6 lety +3

    I wish I never watched this. When he started to go into his politics and beliefs in it, my heart sank. A good actor though. but still.

  • @joaomiguel2405
    @joaomiguel2405 Před 4 lety +1

    you can't deny that alec is a cool dude, but at times i think he is a bit arrogant. he hammered trump pretty badly.

  • @hyun8519
    @hyun8519 Před 2 lety

    dorky

  • @hyun8519
    @hyun8519 Před 2 lety

    i made 5 kids i the man

  • @PantalonRouge
    @PantalonRouge Před 2 lety

    yikes

  • @RonaldL.MAngela.vaught17HH

    intention, attention, manifestation.

  • @davidallen6970
    @davidallen6970 Před 4 lety

    who is alec baldwin

  • @danjameson1572
    @danjameson1572 Před 3 lety +1

    I'm surprised at the callowness and superficiality of the questions. It's Oxford for Chrissake.

  • @williamhblake
    @williamhblake Před 6 lety +3

    this is Oxford Union yes ? oh i thought it was a lets talk about my boring acting jobs .... intelligence is a very rare thing today , very sad .

  • @lumanpaul
    @lumanpaul Před 2 lety

    To be completely honest prior to watching this I thought I had a pretty strong dislike for Alec..I was incorrect, yup I was wrong I'm sure I hate him now.

  • @adamsapple7193
    @adamsapple7193 Před 4 lety +1

    Spew

  • @ChrisMisc1
    @ChrisMisc1 Před 4 lety

    LOL @ talking posher than usual because you're in Oxford

  • @cynthiaevans8654
    @cynthiaevans8654 Před 3 lety

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  • @eldendardar9450
    @eldendardar9450 Před 3 lety

    The funny stepson numerically hover because holiday collectively fill of a political grape. questionable, fretful sousaphone

  • @4eab
    @4eab Před 6 lety +1

    Creeper

  • @TheWorldTeacher
    @TheWorldTeacher Před 6 lety +3

    Socialist = thumbs down
    Vegetarian = thumbs up

  • @RonaldL.MAngela.vaught17HH

    land of the free & brave it’s it isn’t free it isn’t going to be brave. That’s a huge liability to the survival of the foundation of America.

  • @RonaldL.MAngela.vaught17HH

    See our names just above we need your affirmations of free& safe were in political asylum to escape from att acks.

  • @mrwaterghost
    @mrwaterghost Před 3 lety

    Hey Alec, if you've got 4 kids (and counting) with just one of your wives you can probably skip manspaning to me about the environment.

    • @noelmalik5018
      @noelmalik5018 Před rokem

      What’s wrong with having four kids with your wife? Wth?

  • @dylanblue2271
    @dylanblue2271 Před 4 lety +1

    Disappointingly ill-informed and conservative on gender issues. A product of his time. He doesn't get it.

    • @ChrisMisc1
      @ChrisMisc1 Před 4 lety

      He had Caitlyn Jenner at his roast

    • @dylanblue2271
      @dylanblue2271 Před 4 lety +1

      @@ChrisMisc1 Sorry I didn't mean gender fluidity or trans issues. I should've specified that I meant gender politics, Me2 etc

    • @clairedelamer9116
      @clairedelamer9116 Před 3 lety

      I think it is important that men contribute to the conversation about gender issues, for example #metoo, as an opportunity for them to learn. But men need to understand that they have no relevance in terms of authority of experience and truth of women. Alec Baldwin does not understand this at all. It also seems he has no understanding of the complexities of incest, the horror, shame, disbelief, denial involved. Most people do not tell. I cannot imagine the courage it takes to be from a famous family and, in the face of your siblings' disbelief and the disdain of the fans of the abuser, hold to your truth, year after year. Hopefully, he will learn.

    • @karlhungus5554
      @karlhungus5554 Před 3 lety

      @@clairedelamer9116
      *By the Way, Woody Allen Is Innocent
      *
      czcams.com/video/muyaCg2dGAk/video.html
      *The Rise and Fail of Ronan Farrow
      *
      ronanfarrowletter.wordpress.com/2020/07/20/the-rise-and-fail-of-ronan-farrow

    • @clairedelamer9116
      @clairedelamer9116 Před 3 lety

      @@karlhungus5554 Don't you think every major newspaper/site would have that as their headline if it were true? Regardless, it isn't for either you or I to say.

  • @stephenboyle3195
    @stephenboyle3195 Před 6 lety

    He should thank President Trump for his new found fame..