These outstanding performances have earned the actor many Primetime Emmy awards and other nominations, highlighting his comedic prowess.

However, Baldwin once played Jack Ryan in a not-funny-at-all action thriller.

However, Baldwin was curiously replaced by Harrison Ford in the sequel.

Alec Baldwin at a red carpet event

Read on to know Baldwin’s thoughts on why that happened.

Baldwin was blindsided by Paramount

Tom Clancy’s thriller gave way tomany sequels and a TV series.

Ultimately,John Krasinskiplayed him in the TV series, making for confusing character development.

Harrison Ford in a suit

He was right but he didn’t realize that he would be replaced.

Baldwin believed that he was blindsided by Paramount Pictures.

“The truth is the studio cut my throat,” Bladwin wrote in theHuffPost.

Meanwhile, Paramount executive David Kirkpatrick had a different story.

“We did not trust one another to continue in the enterprise,” he said, perScreenRant.