James Franco: Actors Anonymous

by Franco, James

ISBN: 9780571311705

Published: 2015-06-04

Inspired by Alcoholics Anonymous's 12 Steps and 12 Traditions, 'Actors Anonymous' is a dark, genre-bending work that mixes memoir and pure invention in an audacious examination of celebrity, acting and the making of fiction. 'Actors Anonymous' is unsettling, funny and personal - a series of stories told in many forms: a McDonald's drive-thru operator who spends his shift trying on accents; an ex-child star recalling a massive beachside bacchanal; hospital volunteers putting a camera in the hands of a patient obsessed with horror films; a vampire-flick starlet who discovers a cryptic book written by a famous actor, who may have killed his father and gone on the run. The book contains profound insights into the nature and purpose of acting.