Alec Baldwin’s neighbor made a wild claim about the disgraced star after he was criticized by the public for labeling Americans as “uninformed” during a recent film festival.
The 66-year-old “Rust” actor received the Lifetime Achievement Award this month at the Torino Film Festival in northern Italy, where he called Americans “uneducated” on the world’s most pressing issues.
“Americans are very uninformed about the reality – what is really going on,” he said at a news conference. “Americans need a little information.”
But his inflammatory, anti-American comment has infuriated New Yorkers — including one of Baldwin’s neighbors, who told DailyMail.com he can’t talk about ordinary Americans, especially because of his “attitude” problem.
Madeline Hill, 20, revealed the actor is ‘rude’ and claimed he himself was ‘uneducated’.
She said, “I actually live across the street from Alec Baldwin. He’s been rude to me so many times. He is an uneducated man in himself. He doesn’t really see the heart of America.”
Another outraged Big Apple resident questioned why Baldwin — who fatally shot a cameraman on the set of Rust in 2021 and walked away scot-free — is even talking about the rest of the country as a whole when he has bigger issues to deal with .
Reacting to the actor’s comments, locals said, ‘Why has no case been filed against him? [involuntary] manslaughter? I think he’s definitely misinformed. He needs to come back to New York to be informed.”
Madeline Hill, 20, told DailyMail.com that she lives across the street from Alec Baldwin and that he has been nothing but rude
At the film festival in Italy this month, the 66-year-old controversial A-lister (pictured at the event) said Americans are “uneducated” and “uninformed about reality.”
Baldwin has courted controversy over the years for his reckless and rude behavior towards the public: he called a photographer a “c***sucking f****t” to his face outside his Greenwich Village home in 2013.
In 2016, he was caught in a foul-mouthed tirade against a photographer who tried to take pictures of him in a public place.
“You’re a piece of trash,” he shouted, along with a number of expletives. “Stay away from my wife.” As the photographer tried to reason with the actor, Alec got in his face and shouted at the top of his lungs, “Shut up! You’re a piece of trash!’
In 2018, he was arrested for punching a New Yorker who stole his parking spot in an expletive-filled outburst. He later pleaded guilty.
And in 2021, an umbrella-wielding Baldwin was filmed aggressively rushing toward a New York Post reporter who confronted him outside Woody Allen’s Manhattan mansion.
Baldwin wasn’t the only one in hot water for his most recent rant.
Sharon Stone also made comments about the country’s citizens at the same film festival where she appeared to compare Donald Trump to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini – noting that he was only elected because Americans lack knowledge and don’t travel enough.
‘My country is in the middle of adolescence. Adolescence is very arrogant. Adolescence thinks it knows everything,” she said. ‘Adolescence is naive, ignorant and arrogant. And we are in our ignorant, arrogant adolescence.”
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While some Big Apple residents agreed with Baldwin’s comments, the majority of them believed that celebrities should not have a say in how much knowledge ordinary Americans have.
Alec Baldwin and Hilaria Baldwin in the Hamptons on July 20, 2024
Other outraged Big Apple residents wondered why Baldwin — who fatally shot a cameraman on the set of Rust in 2021 and walked away scot-free — is even talking about the rest of the country as a whole when he has bigger issues to deal with
“We have not seen this before in our country,” she added. “So Americans who don’t travel, who 80 percent don’t have passports and who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naivety.”
During interviews with DailyMail.com on the streets of Manhattan, New Yorkers gave their thoughts on their recent rants following Trump’s landslide victory over Kamala Harris.
Some Big Apple residents even agreed with Baldwin and Stone’s views.
“Most of the population is – I hate to say it – stupid,” said one man. “I would say most of the people here are very uneducated,” he added, looking around at passersby. “I think 70 percent of Trump voters just jumped on the bandwagon.”
“I think I can definitely agree with that,” Palo, 19, said.
“In the sense that there is certainly a cohort of Americans who certainly have some ignorance about them and they don’t focus on the reality of the situation because they don’t want to deviate from this idea that they have. in their heads.’
But most New Yorkers said celebrities have no place talking about how “uninformed” ordinary Americans are — and that maybe they should look in the mirror themselves.
Actress Sharon Stone (center) railed against “arrogant adolescent” America during a long-winded rant in which she called American voters “uneducated” and “ignorant”
Baldwin, seen here outside the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office on the day of the shooting, was charged twice
The Baldwins posted this image on Election Day this year
Alec Baldwin broke down in tears and hugged his wife Hilaria as his involuntary manslaughter case was sensationally dismissed in July
“Celebrities are the ones who are oblivious to reality,” says 18-year-old Pamela. “Celebrities of all people have it the easiest: they make easy money, they have easy jobs.”
“That’s a real mess!” said 19-year-old Nahtara. “I’m sorry you have the nerve to say something like that about the people, I guess, not even in the same league as you.”
“It’s just a really strong opinion about a society that I feel like you’re already out of touch with,” she added.
Earlier this week, it was revealed that Alec Baldwin is facing a new attempt to revive the criminal case against him in connection with the 2021 fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins on the film set of Rust.
And if he succeeds, the actor could face the same 18-month prison sentence as the film’s gunmaker.
Prosecutors in New Mexico have appealed a judge’s decision in July to dismiss the involuntary manslaughter case.
The one-page notice made public Tuesday says prosecutors are appealing to the state Court of Appeals to overturn the ruling and restart the case.
While it will be months before a decision is made, the specter of Baldwin having to return to court in Santa Fe comes as he finally tries to put the 2021 Rust shooting behind him.
The film finally premiered at a film festival in Poland last weekend, and this week it received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Turin Film Festival in Italy.
The Rust lawsuit was dismissed by the judge after two days when it became clear that prosecutors had not disclosed evidence about the source of the bullets to Baldwin’s attorneys.
In October, Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer rejected a request from prosecutors to restart the case.
But now prosecutors are trying to get over her by appealing the decision.
Baldwin, 66, has always maintained his innocence over the fatal shooting of Hutchins on the set of Rust, an indie Western film.