Alec Baldwin deactivated his Twitter account again amid a stormy week on social media.
The “30 Rock” actor announced his decision to leave the platform in a nearly 10-minute video posted on Instagram on Wednesday. The action, he explained, was in response to the reaction he received for commenting on Gillian Anderson’s use of an American accent during his Golden Globe acceptance speech last weekend.
Baldwin barely mentioned Anderson’s name in his video, but said he was a “big fan” of the actor whose work he had mentioned on Twitter. His comment, he added, was intended to “illustrate the point that I think, as I said, that anyone’s multicultural expressions – whatever the country, language, music, food, clothing, art, anyone, anyone one of those expressions is important to you – this is your business. “
“Of course, you can’t make any irony on Twitter,” he said in another part of the clip, later blowing up the platform as a place “where all the idiots in the United States and beyond go to get their advanced degrees in idiocy. “
The previous Wednesday, Baldwin tweeted a CNN report on Anderson’s performance as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in Netflix’s “The Crown”, for which she won a Golden Globe. The article noted that Anderson, who was born in Chicago but spent much of his childhood in London, “accepted the award using his American accent”.
“Changing your accent? That looks … fascinating, ”he wrote in the tweet.
The observation was a less than subtle reference to the recent controversy surrounding Baldwin’s wife, Hilaria Baldwin. Since December, the yoga and health entrepreneur has come under criticism after presenting herself as a Spanish woman – a statement that was publicly supported by her husband – even though she was born and raised in Boston by American parents.
Anderson’s comment was the second time this week that Baldwin, who left Twitter briefly in January after his wife’s inheritance disaster, made headlines with his unstable online presence.
On Monday, he and Hilaria announced the arrival of their sixth daughter, Lucia. When someone questioned how the couple could have conceived a daughter so early after welcoming a son, Eduardo, in September 2020, Baldwin replied, “You should shut up and mind your own business.”
It was later confirmed that the Baldwins used a replacement.
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