{"id":5908,"date":"2026-06-17T19:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/stephen-baldwin-says-he-was-fired-from-rom-com-for-being-funnier-than-jennifer-aniston\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T19:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:58:21","slug":"stephen-baldwin-says-he-was-fired-from-rom-com-for-being-funnier-than-jennifer-aniston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/stephen-baldwin-says-he-was-fired-from-rom-com-for-being-funnier-than-jennifer-aniston\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Baldwin says he was fired from rom-com for being &#8216;funnier&#8217; than Jennifer Aniston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2026%2F06%2F131313695-1.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Stephen Baldwin claimed he was fired from the 1998 film \u201cThe Object of My Affection\u201d for being \u201cfunnier\u201d than co-star Jennifer Aniston.<\/p>\n<p>During Sunday\u2019s episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dm_hG9EyKKc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his podcast \u201cOne Bad Movie,\u201d <\/a>Baldwin revealed he was initially cast as Vince McBride, the boyfriend of Aniston\u2019s Nina Borowski, in the rom-com directed by Nicholas Hytner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI get there and I\u2019m me,\u201d he said. \u201cJennifer\u2019s cute and whatever. I got a girl. I\u2019m good.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Stephen Baldwin (seen above on his podcast \u201cOne Bad Movie\u201d) claimed he was fired from the 1998 rom-com \u201cThe Object of My Affection.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">YouTube\/@OneBadMovie<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Baldwin said he was supposed to play Jennifer Aniston\u2019s boyfriend in the movie (Aniston is seen above at the \u201cMurder Mystery 2\u201d premiere in 2023). <span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The 60-year-old actor said on the second day of shooting, a producer came to his trailer and told him there was \u201ca problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe goes, \u201cYou can\u2019t be funnier than Jennifer,&#8217;\u201d Baldwin recalled. \u201cI go, \u2018Is this a joke? This is a comedy movie! Am I about to get punked? What do you even mean by that?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baldwin stressed he wasn\u2019t sharing the story to \u201cshred anybody,\u201d but rather to prove that \u201cHollywood\u2019s Hollywood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cUsual Suspects\u201d compared the producer\u2019s criticism to being \u201cmauled in the face by a f\u2014ing wolverine\u201d and \u201cnumbing himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Baldwin (pictured above at the 2024 FOX Winter Press Day) claimed a producer told him, \u201cYou can\u2019t be funnier than Jennifer.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Baldwin said he felt \u201ccastrated comedically\u201d by the producer (Aniston is seen above in 1999). <span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He said when he returned to the set after being \u201ccastrated comedically,\u201d he toned down his comedic delivery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou hired me to play a role, and now you\u2019re telling me not to play that role,\u201d he recalled thinking to himself. <\/p>\n<p>Baldwin said he was cut from the film after that day. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey let me go. They told me I could go home,\u201d he shared. \u201cAnd that was all cool. But that\u2019s just awkward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The role as Vince ultimately went to \u201cMad About You\u201d star John Pankow.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Baldwin\u2019s role ended up going to John Pankow. (Pankow is seen above in the film with Aniston). <span class=\"credit\">\u00a920thCentFox\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Paul Rudd (pictured above) also starred in the film with Aniston. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a920thCentFox\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe Object of My Affection\u201d is about Nina (Aniston), a New York social worker who gets pregnant by her boyfriend (Pankow) but decides she\u2019d rather raise her child with her gay roommate George (Paul Rudd).<\/p>\n<p>Aniston and Rudd, 57, worked together again in<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/05\/celebrity-news\/lisa-kudrow-says-nobody-cared-about-me-and-that-she-was-called-the-sixth-friend-on-hit-sitcom\/\"> \u201cFriends,\u201d <\/a>which aired from 1994 to 2004, and in the 2012 comedy \u201cWanderlust.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Aniston (seen above in \u201cThe Object of My Affection\u201d with Pankow) plays a New York social worker who gets pregnant and decides she wants to raise her child with her new gay roommate. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a920thCentFox\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Aniston (seen above at the 2020 Winter TCA Tour) starred in the film during the years she was on \u201cFriends.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0yR0tbjWseg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a March 1998 interview with Bobbie Wygant<\/a>, Aniston said she initially felt \u201cchallenged and intimidated\u201d by her role in \u201cThe Object of My Affection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a very complex situation and very necessary to tell it truthfully and give it everything it deserved,\u201d she said of the movie\u2019s plot.<\/p>\n<p>Aniston then described working on the film as \u201cthe most incredible experience I\u2019ve had to date as an actress.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/17\/entertainment\/stephen-baldwin-says-he-was-fired-from-rom-com-for-being-funnier-than-jennifer-aniston\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Baldwin claimed he was fired from the 1998 film \u201cThe Object of My Affection\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/131313695-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}