Jackie Kennedy went on a date with this actor

It's funny how the tables have turned for Alec Baldwin, 59, whose wife, Hilaria, is 33.

When Baldwin was 33, he was the object of the affection of then-nearly-62 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who at the time asked her close friend to secure a date between them, as revealed in his memoir, according to People.

Alec Baldwin in 1990. Photo/Getty Images

James Hart published Lucky Jim on Tuesday, the story of his life that included much detail about the wife of assassinated President John F. Kennedy by virtue of their longstanding friendship.

Hart's ex-wife of 20 years, Carly Simon, was a 'kindred spirit' to Jackie Kennedy, according to an article in Vanity Fair published one year after she died in 1994 at the age of 64.

But two years prior to her death, the former First Lady was full of life, playful, and open about sharing her crushes on famous men, according to Hart. 

Onassis would ask Hart for his opinion on the opposite sex, he wrote. 

She called him up one evening to ask specifically about Alec Baldwin, who was nearly 30 years younger than her at the time, because she was aware that he and Hart were 'good friends,' Hart wrote.

'Well, do you think Alec could be my date for the theatre on my birthday?' Hart wrote that she asked him.

'I was surprised by the openness of the request, but I acted as though there was nothing unusual about it,' he wrote in his book. 'Alec was most shocked of all, but there wasn’t a moment’s hesitation, even though he had just met Kim Basinger.'

The memoir goes on to relay how Hart's later conversation with Baldwin played out. 

'I’m there,' he wrote that Baldwin said.

'You sure?' Hart asked.

'Are you kidding? Jackie Kennedy wants to go on a date?' Hart wrote that Baldwin said. 'Of course.' 

Coincidentally, Alec Baldwin also released a memoir this month. His book, Nevertheless: A Memoir, was published on April 4.

This article was first published on dailymail.co.uk and is republished here with permission.