I’m very cautious about it because she still has an acting school, she’s still doing her thing. I was hoping I was fair in the depiction of my memories - good and bad. That was a very big part of my upbringing in Los Angeles, as an artist there. One of the biggest things is my old acting coach. For example, you opened up about an abusive relationship you experienced with an acting coach. Right, but as you said, if you want this to be a guide for those coming into this industry, especially people of color, it’s helpful to be real so negative experiences aren’t repeated or can be avoided. … When you’re referencing lessons in our industry that have been really great over my career, I’m also just cautious about how I’m talking about them and not wanting to offend anyone in that way. You have a kid coming in and dealing with that. When you talk about specific thing, there’s abuse that happens sometimes in the industry. Was there anything particularly challenging to write about or you were worried about sharing?Īnyone who has been in this town long enough has their own True Hollywood story. What does your family think of the memoir? Have any of them read it? I didn’t realize until I read the beginning of the book that some events were years ago. How long did it take to get everything together? Then we just broke it down and I started writing essays. So I tell some stories about those, some of them from 20-plus years ago, some 10 years ago. Then, of course, there’s the projects a lot of fans will want to hear about. It’s kind of like our story - my perspective of our story. What was the process in terms of deciding which stories to share between family and your career?įirst and foremost, I brought up by my family because we all came here together. I wrote a lot of essays and we put them together. And I’d never written a book before, anyway. Chapter by chapter, it’s very conversational. It reads almost like a diary or a stream of thoughts, filled with anecdotes and advice. But my impetus while writing, and I kept telling them through edits, I’m really writing this book as somewhat of a blueprint for the next generation of people of color coming into the city. I thought it was interesting and at first, I talked about it in the book, like I’m a little too young to be writing this book. The biggest takeaway from it, by far, is you detailing not just your experiences as a child actor but what it was like to be an Asian-American child actor. We want a story of Hollywood from an Asian-American perspective, and you’re the kid that we all grew up with.” And they said, “We like your poetry, but we want your story. They’re really cool and do a lot of poetry, so at first I thought I’d be doing a poetry book for them. Not a Cult media approached me about doing a book. Basco, 42, shares that the pages of his book can serve as “a blueprint for the next generation of people of color coming into the city.”Īt the start of your memoir, you say you’re “42 years young” and mull over whether you should be writing a book. That pursuit, and what it meant to Basco and his Filipino family as he grew from a break-boy kid of NorCal to a prominent Asian-American child actor, is a theme that consistently weaves throughout his story and for good reason. Speaking with the actor ahead of the release of his memoir, we quickly connected on both being first-generation kids whose immigrant parents pursued the “American dream” (his family being Filipino, my mother’s family having emigrated from Iran). Lucy Liu to Narrate Audiobook of Celeste Ng's 'Our Missing Hearts' Novel
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