After a tumultuous livechat with Woody Allen was interrupted by a bad internet connection, Alec Baldwin shouted about how annoying barking dogs were.
The Hollywood actor, 64, jumped up from his couch to chastise an unidentified employee named Leonetta during the interview on Tuesday, in which he failed to bring up the tragic Rust shooting.
15 minutes into the conversation, Allen, 86, experienced a connection freeze. Baldwin yelled, “Leonetta! Leonetta!” as he jumped off the couch at his East Hampton residence a short while later. Basta! Perritas, la! Basta! Las perritas, enough!
In English, that reads, “Leonetta! Enough! the canines Enough. the canines I’ve had enough!
Baldwin and Allen, who have both been embroiled in numerous controversies, planned the get-together to talk about Allen’s most recent collection of essays, Zero Gravity.
Although Baldwin disabled live comments for the Instagram event, numerous Wi-Fi outages at Allen’s Upper East Side mansion caused it to degenerate into a farcical comedy.
A woman who was with Allen was FaceTimed by the infamously short-tempered Baldwin during the second of three outages.
“Are they in the space with the best Wi-Fi?” He barbecued. “This is their second shutdown,” I said.
They must stay in the room with the finest Wi-Fi in the entire home. What’s going on there, exactly? Baldwin went on.
Seconds later, Allen returned to the screen with a female assistant and stated, “We just opened a door, it might make a difference.” This caused more unintended humor to break out.
Baldwin and Allen spoke at length about their illustrious careers, with the It’s Complicated actor Baldwin making it plain how much he admires Allen’s work.
He claimed that taking a break from the chaos of having six small children with his second wife Hilaria, 38, who is currently expecting their seventh child, by viewing an Allen movie provided a “escape.”
In addition, Allen said of the movie industry, “A lot of the thrill is gone,” that he’s thinking of quitting.
“It’s not as fun as it was…” After talking about the details of a future filming location in Paris, he declared, “I’m going to make another one and I’ll see how it feels.”
But what he chose to remain silent about was what got people talking online. Baldwin boasted that despite working during the pandemic, he had never contracted COVID toward the end of the conversation.
I heard they’re going to conduct testing and research on folks who didn’t receive COVID, the man replied.
“I had to work, so I was out all the time.” I went to shoot a Peacock TV series, but I soon discovered that I always wore a mask whenever I entered a room with people, which is likely why I was denied COVID.
Baldwin seems to be making reference to his performance in the Dr Death medical thriller. However, he omitted to disclose the notorious murder that took place in October 2021 on the Rust set.
In that incident, Baldwin handled a pretend pistol that he didn’t realize was loaded with live ammunition and unintentionally shot and killed 42-year-old cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
The death of Hutchins, a mother of two, left Baldwin “devastated,” but he rejects all accusations of guilt.
The actor also worked as a producer on the television series Rust, whose senior crew is currently being sued and accused of violating safety regulations on production.
Allen, however, revealed his own complicated background when he concurred with Baldwin that his wife Soon-Yi Previn is “fortunate” to accompany him to Paris this fall to watch him film a movie.
Allen agreed, saying, “My wife is lucky for many reasons, that’s just one of them.”
However, others on social media were quick to point out that Allen started an affair with Previn while dating the actress who is Previn’s adoptive mother, Mia Farrow.
When the relationship started, Allen was 56 and Previn was 21.
Alec Baldwin, who shot and killed his employee eight months ago, is currently joking about with Woody Allen, who is married to his daughter, according to journalist Emily Miller.
Allen was charged with sexually assaulting Dylan Farrow when she was seven, months after knowledge of his liaison with Previn broke.
Allen has consistently refuted the allegations, and no legal action was ever taken against him.