Stephen Baldwin claims he was fired from rom-com for being ‘funnier’ than Jennifer Aniston

Stephen Baldwin claimed he was fired from nan 1998 movie “The Object of My Affection” for being “funnier” than co-star Jennifer Aniston.

During Sunday’s section of his podcast “One Bad Movie,” Baldwin revealed he was initially formed arsenic Vince McBride, nan fellow of Aniston’s Nina Borowski, successful nan rom-com directed by Nicholas Hytner.

“I get location and I’m me,” he said. “Jennifer’s tiny and whatever. I sewage a girl. I’m good.”

The 60-year-old character said connected nan 2nd time of shooting, a shaper came to his trailer and told him location was “a problem.”

“He goes, “You can’t beryllium funnier than Jennifer,'” Baldwin recalled. “I go, ‘Is this a joke? This is simply a drama movie! Am I astir to get punked? What do you moreover mean by that?'”

Baldwin stressed he wasn’t sharing nan communicative to “shred anybody,” but alternatively to beryllium that “Hollywood’s Hollywood.”

The “Usual Suspects” compared nan producer’s disapproval to being “mauled successful nan look by a f—ing wolverine” and “numbing himself.”

He said erstwhile he returned to nan group aft being “castrated comedically,” he toned down his comedic delivery.

“You hired maine to play a role, and now you’re telling maine not to play that role,” he recalled reasoning to himself.

Baldwin said he was trim from nan movie aft that day.

“They fto maine go. They told maine I could spell home,” he shared. “And that was each cool. But that’s conscionable awkward.”

The domiciled arsenic Vince yet went to “Mad About You” prima John Pankow.

Page Six has reached retired to Aniston’s rep for comment.

“The Object of My Affection” is astir Nina (Aniston), a New York societal worker who gets pregnant by her fellow (Pankow) but decides she’d alternatively raise her kid pinch her cheery roommate George (Paul Rudd).

Aniston and Rudd, 57, worked together again in “Friends,” which aired from 1994 to 2004, and successful nan 2012 drama “Wanderlust.”

During a March 1998 question and reply pinch Bobbie Wygant, Aniston said she initially felt “challenged and intimidated” by her domiciled successful “The Object of My Affection.”

“It’s a very analyzable business and very basal to show it truthfully and springiness it everything it deserved,” she said of nan movie’s plot.

Aniston past described moving connected nan movie arsenic “the astir unthinkable acquisition I’ve had to day arsenic an actress.”