Alec Baldwin blasted for self-centered Sam Neill

Alec Baldwin confronted fierce backlash after delivering an roughly three-minute tribute to his former co-star Sam Neill following his passing earlier this week.

The 30 Rock actor, 68, was condemned as “insane” and “narcissistic” for importing a video to Instagram on Monday, July 13, honoring the beloved Jurassic Park franchise star. The two shared on-screen historical past, having appeared together in the 1990 basic thriller The Hunt for Red October.

Throughout the video, The Aviator star largely centered on his personal experiences on set, barely referencing Sam, who wished to return to performing before he died, past the opening 10 seconds and shutting 5 seconds of his 2-minute and 47-second clip.

Outraged viewers took to Reddit on Tuesday, July 14, flooding a subreddit thread with criticism, with many discovering Baldwin’s video deeply inappropriate.

“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,” one Redditor commented.

A second added, “The narcissism is insane,” while another wrote, “So many name drops it’s like a slow, meandering version of We Didn’t Start The Fire.”

However, one consumer supplied a more sympathetic perspective: “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 opened his video by showing to dedicate the publish to Sam in the wake of Sam’s demise.

“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,” he acknowledged.

Alec continued: “And that was probably my first big movie in terms of having a, a decent-sized role, ’cause I’d done Working Girl and Beetlejuice and things like that, where I had a smaller role. And I do Hunt for Red October and, yes, John [McTiernan] is a great director and, um, one of the most exciting parts of it was, for me, was to meet Tom Clancy.”

Further into the video, he paid tribute to the Hunt for Red October solid, itemizing more than a dozen of his fellow co-stars by identify.

Alec went on: “But the cast, I mean, I’ve had great casts, I’ve worked with great people. You know, Tony and Meryl, and so many other people that I really, really admired, and do admire. But the, the, um, I mean, my God, Hunt for Red October.”

He proceeded to call 14 of his and Sam’s fellow solid members from the movie, among them Sean Connery, Tim Curry, James Earl Jones, Courtney B. Vance, and Stellan Skarsgård.

Rather than redirecting his tribute again to Sam Neill, Alec appeared to veer off beam, dwelling on his personal private reminiscences of the manufacturing.

“There’s a lot of other people in there who I enjoyed working with, but my God, my God. What an experience that was,” he continued. “What an experience it was to do that movie with those people. I mean, every time you turned around to do a scene, you were with this great actor.”

Wrapping up his tribute, he finally acknowledged Sam, concluding with: “That is one of the few movies I have ever done where I remember the whole movie. That’s what a fan I am of that work. Not me. I’m not a fan of my work but I am a fan of their work. Anyway, oh my God. My God. Sam Neill. My love to his family, My love to his family.”