Alec Baldwin says billionaire investor turned-film producer Arki Busson is his Hollywood archenemy. The sharp-tongued actor, who met with Busson in Cannes while pitching an Iraq-set romance film, fired off in TV Guide after the mogul told Baldwin he’s only considered a TV star, not a movie star.
“He reminds me of a B-level villain in a Bond film,” Baldwin tells the magazine. “It’s a part Robert Davi would play if you couldn’t get Alan Rickman with a cat in his lap. He’s a pockmarked toady who hops from yacht to yacht and bed to bed. So when some bloated little toad like Busson labels me a certain way, I say to myself, ‘Consider the source.’ If movie stardom meant being trapped on a yacht with Busson, I’d rather be a weatherman for Ch. 4 in New York.”
Blustering Baldwin, who’s launching a talk show on MSNBC, also ranted about movie studio executives, saying they know nothing about moviemaking.
He tells TV Guide, “I’m not blaming them — they only have what they have. They’re all factotums of multilateral corporations. It’s all money, money, money.” The one guy Baldwin actually appreciates? Dreamworks Studios co-founder Steven Spielberg. Explains Baldwin: “He doesn’t have to go to one of the douchebags from Warner Bros. and explain to them why his movie is marketable.”