Smashing Phones, Throwing Chairs: Inside Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger's 'Deplorable' Behavior on the Set of "The Marrying Man "(Exclusive) Gillian TellingOctober 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM 0 Vinnie Zuffante/Getty Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger at the premiere of Final Analysis in 1992 Alec Baldwin and Kim ...
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Gillian TellingOctober 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger met three weeks before filming The Marrying Man, and between their hot love affair and hot tempers, reportedly kept everyone working on the film on edge
One producer said their behavior was 'so vile,' he wouldn't work with them again even if he was paid a million dollars
Baldwin reportedly often smashed his cellphones and threw a chair, narrowly missing a staffer while Basinger demanded Evian water shampoo
The making of the 1991 film The Marrying Man, based off the Neil Simon play, was no picnic for the staffers who worked on the set with stars Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, who had just entered a volatile romantic relationship and were reportedly "despicable" to work with.
''Honest to God, if I were destitute and living on the street with no food and somebody offered me a million dollars to work with Alec and Kim, I'd pass,'' a senior production staffer told PEOPLE at the time. ''Their actions were vile, deplorable, despicable.''
Baldwin, now 66, and Basinger, now 71, would go on to marry in 1993 and have daughter Ireland Baldwin in 1995. They first met three weeks before they were set to start filming The Marrying Man.
According to a source at the time, the night after they met, they went to dinner at Morton's, a Los Angeles power restaurant, where they flirted heavily and decided to go back to Baldwin's place in Brentwood.
When it came time to choose whose car to take, Baldwin reportedly borrowed a line from the film. ''Mine's bigger,'' he said. If he was talking about their tempers, it would have been a tough competition. Baldwin, who was paid $1.5 million for the role, was reportedly so volatile that he kept everyone constantly on edge.
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Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin in Paris 1994
His cellphones (a star perk back then) became favorite weapons. ''He didn't like it when his phones cut out, so he would slam them against the wall,'' a member of the technical crew told PEOPLE. ''I don't know how many phones he smashed to smithereens.''
When one phone failed, he was reportedly so enraged that he threw a director's chair, which narrowly missed an electrician who happened to be in the way. He later apologized. ''Alec would be pissed at whatever wasn't going right,'' says one crewman, ''and there was always something that wasn't going right.'' He'd especially lash out at the studio execs who dared visit the set.
"One time,'' video engineer told PEOPLE, ''I heard Alec marching back after a tantrum and saying, 'I really showed them this time!'"
Meanwhile, Basinger, the blonde Southern beauty who had just come off filming Batman and was paid $2.5 million for the role, reportedly demanded the the director of photography be fired because she didn't like the way he made her look, and wanted to change the dialog because the writer (Neil Simon) "didn't understand comedy." She also often kept production waiting and had demands that included Evian water shampoo.
Their on-set sexual chemistry also reportedly made staffers uncomfortable. During the couple's first scene together, the sound crew couldn't believe their ears as, between takes, Basinger reportedly told her lover what she'd like to do to certain parts of his anatomy. ''Think of the dirtiest things you can think of,'' one crew member told PEOPLE in 1991.
Basinger and Baldwin continued to have a tumultuous union before going through an ugly divorce in 2002.
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Actor Alec Baldwin and then 10 year old daughter Ireland Baldwin in 2005
Ireland recently opened up about her tough childhood on her Substack, noting that she grew up "without two parents in my home and no siblings to turn to," according to the New York Post. Without noting who she was speaking of, she wrote, "I move into 30 with a lot less weight on my shoulders. This weight that was brought on by the need to continue to carry my narcissistic, unreliable, addict family members who I thought I needed in my life."
On an episode of his recent reality show The Baldwins, Baldwin, 67, also opened up about how painful the experience was.
"My divorce with Ireland's mother was not easy. It's not easy. Very lengthy, very expensive. I mean, just insanity, just insanity," he said.
In the end, The Marrying Man ended up not doing very well at the box office, grossing $12 million against a $26 million budget. It also finished nearly a month over its original 52-day schedule, and $6 million over budget. The exhausted director, who blamed the movie's problems on ''politics, money and time constraints,'' was hospitalized with pneumonia and dehydration for two weeks near the end of filming.
Of course, the behavior didn't seem to hurt of of their careers too badly. Basinger went on to star in blockbusters like L.A. Confidential, and Baldwin in films like Glengarry Glen Ross.
''Alec is a movie star,'' one top casting director told PEOPLE of his bad boy reputation at the time. ''If he continues to behave like this and he becomes big box office, people will just have to learn how to deal with it.''
Their Marrying Man costar Robert Loggia agreed.
''The line used to be 'You'll never work in this town again,' '' he said. ''The catch is, 'until we need you.'''
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