Alec Baldwin‘s goal to learn Spanish didn’t sit well with wife Hilaria Baldwin.
During the Sunday, March 9, episode of The Baldwins, Alec, 66, discussed his plans after the case against him related to the Rust shooting was dismissed.
“All I care about now is I want you to be happy and comfortable and I want those kids to be happy and comfortable. You know what I want to do?” Alec told Hilaria, 41. “I am going to go back to school. I am going to sit in a room [and learn] Spanish.”
Hilaria wasn’t thrilled about Alec’s choice. “That is not convenient for me because then I can’t talk about you,” she quipped. “Why don’t you just pick Swedish?”
The couple’s conversation continued to spark more funny moments — including a surprise appearance from a butterfly. When the insect landed on him, Hilaria pointed it out to Alec, to which he replied, “Take a photo! It is cleaning its butt. This is love! Do you love me? That is magical.”
Elsewhere in the episode, Alec interacted with more bugs when he cleaned out the filter in his pool.
“There’s so many bugs. We can throw them in the grass and the birds can eat them. I am going to whoosh them with some water,” he explained. “I never won an Oscar but if they had one for whooshing, I am the Daniel Day-Lewis of whooshing.”
TLC’s The Baldwins offers a rare glimpse into Alec and Hilaria’s life as they raise their seven children together: Carmen, 11, Rafael, 9, Leonardo, 8, Romeo, 6, Eduardo, 4, María, 4, and Ilaria, 2.
In the premiere, which aired in February, Hilaria brought up her fake accent controversy after Alec said he “can’t understand” some of what she says. “Let’s talk slower. You are speaking English in a Spanish cadence which is always perilous for me,” he noted. “Just slow down a kiss, I can’t understand you.”
Hilaria opened up about the drama that made headlines in December 2020 when social media users accused her of fabricating her comments about her Spanish heritage since she was born as Hilary in Boston, Massachusetts.
“I’m raising my kids to be bilingual, I was raised bilingual,” she explained in a confessional. “My family — all my nuclear family — now lives over in Spain. I want to teach my kids pride in speaking more than one language. I think just growing up and speaking two languages is extremely special.”
Hilaria clapped back at critics who made her feel bad for embracing her identity, saying, “I love English, I also love Spanish, and when I mix the two it doesn’t make me inauthentic, and when I mix the two, that makes me normal. I’d be lying if I said [the drama] didn’t make me sad and it didn’t hurt and it didn’t put me in dark places.”
She continued: “But it was my family, my friends, my community who speak multiple languages, who have belonged in multiple places and realize that we are a mix of all these different things and that’s going to have an impact on how we sound and an impact on how we articulate things and the words that we choose and our mannerisms. That’s normal. That’s called being human.”
The Baldwins airs on TLC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.
