The greatest actor of all time, Alec Baldwin, has revealed his plans to track NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to Russia for an interview.
"I want to try to interview him for my podcast on WNYC," he told Vanity Fair. "I'm pressing all the buttons I have in London with friends of mine who know [Julian] Assange. I'm going to fly to Russia and try to interview Snowden."
It makes sense that Baldwin would take an interest in the case — Snowden is a former NSA contractor and CIA employee who leaked details of top-secret mass surveillance programs, and Baldwin is a man with a vested interest in not being, well, surveilled. But Baldwin isn't necessarily on Snowden's side here.
"I'm not a fan or critic," he said. "I want it to play out. It's like [Daniel] Ellsberg, you know? Insofar as let's find out what he's got. Let's not assume automatically that he's an enemy of this country. If he is, well then we have laws... unfortunately for him, he's fucked. They're going to get him; I'm sure someone is going to trade him."
Now that Jack Ryan's on the case, it seems a pretty safe bet he'll be able to track Snowden down (though, obviously, we'd be even more confident if Harrison Ford was looking for him).
In the same interview, Baldwin revealed that he's never going to use Twitter again, because... something about James Gandolfini and armour, apparently.
"Never. No," he said when asked if he'd ever reopen his account. "I went to Jimmy Gandolfini's funeral, and when I was there I realised Jimmy Gandolfini didn't have Twiter. Jimmy Gandolfini was so beloved as a person, and he was so admired as an actor, and he didn't give a fuck about social media.
"I really learned a lesson at the funeral. I said to myself, this is all a waste of time. Meaning it's fun sometimes, but less and less, and less. It's just another chink in your armour for people to come and kill you. I stopped and said to myself, I'm going to try where I just don't do this anymore."
(Via Vanity Fair)
