10 Misguided Career Moves Made By Talented Actors

8. Alec Baldwin's Constant Self-Sabotage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J0-ZatDHug Alec Baldwin is without question one of the most inconsistent talents in Hollywood today; his career is best characterised as a rollercoaster ride that erratically goes up, down, around, upside down, all inexplicably with no warning or explanation. Alec plays Jack Ryan in the hugely popular The Hunt for Red October, but then inexplicably ditches the role and lets Harrison Ford have some late-day success with it. He then goes through a period of starring in a few films with his hot wife, Kim Basinger (and who can blame him?), before managing to shift his career back to respectability, receiving an Oscar nomination for his work in The Cooler. Alec continued to be awesome for a while, slagging off Dick Cheney and being the best thing about Tina Fey's 30 Rock, but he landed himself in hot water again a few years back when he left a voicemail on his 12-year-old daughter's phone calling her a "rude, thoughtless little pig". Alec will survive it, but damn, the guy really seems to have it in for his own career.
 
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