Producer Blasts Alec Baldwin, Claims Actor Knew Co-Star Nikki Reed Was Underage: ‘He Didn’t Mind’

Dana Brunetti issues 11-tweet response to claims about 2006 indie “Mini’s First Time” made in star’s new memoir

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Dana Brunetti has issued an 11-tweet response to Alec Baldwin’s claims he did not know Nikki Reed was underage on the set of “Mini’s First Time,” adding that once he found out, he “flipped out on producers.”

“My first indie film was Mini’s starring who knew was 16 (not 17) and he didn’t mind,” Brunetti, who served as a producer on the film, wrote on Twitter on Tuesday. “The only time ever yelled at me was on the phone and it was about one of the producers who worked with the financier.”

He added, “but to ‘s benefit, he has been impersonating Trump a lot, so maybe there was a bit of method acting when writing his book?” as well as “And I have just received 3 other message from crew and other producer stating that he knew how old was during filming.”

In Baldwin’s new memoir “Nevertheless,” the actor claimed he didn’t know his co-star Reed was under age when he filmed the indie movie “Mini’s First Time” with her in 2006. The movie’s producers include Kevin Spacey, Brunetti, Edward Bass and Evan Astrowsky

“I was forty-seven, and it never occurred to me to ask how old Nikki Reed was,” Baldwin wrote. “When I found out, just as we finished, that she was seventeen, I flipped out on the producers, who had told me something different.”

The 2006 indie dramedy, written and directed by Nick Guthe, stars Reed as an adventurous high school senior who has an affair with her stepfather, played by Baldwin. Though the film did get an R rating for “strong sexual content, language, drug use and a scene of violence,” Reed’s character is never nude.

A representative for Baldwin has not yet responded to TheWrap’s request for comment.

See Brunetti’s tweets below.

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Beatrice Verhoeven

Film Editor, Twitter: @bverhoev

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