…But Eventually I Want To Direct: Firsthand Experiences in the Entertainment Industry

Come along on dozens of days with Kurt Henricks working as a stand-in for an actor that portrays a version of you, attending film premieres full of A-List Hollywood actors and directors, working security at the 1984 Olympics gymnastics venue to keep the most famous Soviet bloc athlete from causing an international crisis, working your first day in Hollywood on the same soundstages that hosted Frank Capra, Jimmy Stewart, Bewitched, The Monkees and Dexter, winding up as an on-camera black belt stuntman with less than 2 minutes of training in karate, working as an Extra with the producers and crew of The Wire as they craft an equally intense and immersive HBO drama and being Vice Admiral Lord Mountbatten while wearing his original uniform in the most expensive miniseries ever made. Written engagingly in first person present tense, this book puts you in the middle of about 30 very different individual days working in the television, film, streaming and recreation industries. A stranger-than-fiction behind the scenes look that spans six decades while using detail and specifics to let the reader experience the uncertainty, surprises and excitement of each day.