Alec Baldwin has once again deactivated his Twitter account in the midst of a stormy week on social media.
The “30 Rock” actor decided to leave the platform in a nearly 10-minute video posted on Instagram late Wednesday night. He said the move was in response to a response he received last week from Gillian Anderson for his comments on the use of American accents during his Golden Globes acceptance speech.
Baldwin did not mention Ersderson with the name in his video, but said he was a “huge fan” of the actor, whose work he referred to on Twitter. His comment, he added, “is intended to illustrate the point I am looking for, as I said, the multicultural expressions of anyone – country, language, music, food, clothing, art, any of them, any of those expressions That’s important – it’s your business. “
“Of course you can’t make a joke on Twitter,” he said elsewhere in the clip, later calling the platform a venue, “where all the assholes in the United States and beyond go to get an advanced degree of donkey-innocence.” ”
Earlier on Wednesday, Baldwin tweeted a CNN report on Anderson’s performance as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on Netflix’s “The Crown,” for which she captured the Golden Globe. The article notes that Anderson, who was born in Chicago but spent most of his childhood in London, “accepted the award using his American accents.”
“Changing accents? It sounds … beautiful, ”he wrote in a tweet.
The comment was a less-than-nuanced reference to the recent controversy surrounding Baldwin’s wife, Hilaria Baldwin. Despite being born and raised in Boston by American parents – since December, the yoga and health entrepreneur has been criticized after presenting himself as Spanish.
Week Nderson’s comment this week was the second time that Baldwin, who left Twitter shortly after his wife’s legacy feat, made headlines due to his enterprising presence.
On Monday, he and Hilaria announced the arrival of their sixth child, Lucia. When someone questioned how the couple could conceive a daughter in September 2020, after an Eduardo, welcomed the son, Baldwin reported, “You should stop this work and consider your own business.”
It was later confirmed that Baldwins used a surrogate.
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