Now Alec Baldwin can hate himself.
The blowhard, fresh off his rant in New York magazine about how much he hates the media, is taking hypocrisy to new heights by playing a newspaper columnist in an upcoming episode of “Law & Order: SVU.”
The actor, whose targets in the magazine’s story include his former MSNBC colleagues, will play Jimmy McArthur, “who questions the SVU squad’s motives” during a hate crime-rape investigation, according to NBC’s description of the episode.
It’s called “Criminal Stories” and will air March 19. Series co-star Mariska Hargitay, who directed the episode, noted Baldwin’s “fierce commitment.”
Baldwin, 55, saw his short-lived, little-watched MSNBC talk show axed in November after he allegedly called a photographer camped outside his apartment “a c–ks–king f-g” — though he only copped to calling him a “c–ks–ker.”
And he has a long and volatile history with the media.
The star, who lives in the Village, called a reporter for the British tabloid the Daily Mail a “toxic little queen” last June after it reported that Baldwin’s wife, Hilaria, was tweeting during the celebrity-packed funeral of “The Sopranos” star James Gandolfini.
In New York magazine, Baldwin labeled former MSNBC colleague Joe Scarborough “neither eloquent nor funny” and called host Rachel Maddow as “a phony who doesn’t have the same passion for the truth off-camera that she seems to have on the air.”
He also ripped CNN’s Anderson Cooper as “the self-appointed Jack Valenti of gay media culture,” referring to the late head of the Motion Picture Association of America.
Baldwin also threatened to move out of New York City — saying that “Everything I hated about LA I’m beginning to crave . . . Manhattan is like Beverly Hills and the soul of New York has moved to Brooklyn, where everything new and exciting seems to be.
“I have to accept that.”