I was feeling vulnerable and a little scared putting this book out into the world.

Jim was moderating this Q&A for me at Barnes & Noble. In that moment though, it was mostly excitement, because it felt like the best kind of confidence boost for the book. What was your initial reaction? Excitement, trepidation, all of the above? But for Ausiello, the most out-of-body moments were watching Parsons put on his reporter hat.ĮNTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Jim Parsons and his husband came to you with the idea of optioning this and adapting it for the big screen. It's easy to imagine it being strange watching Parsons, who Ausiello has interviewed many times, re-enact love scenes or devastatingly emotional moments from the writer's own life. Parsons stars opposite Pennyworth's Ben Aldridge as Kit. 'Mostly because it just seemed such a remote possibility that it would ever happen.'īased on Ausiello's 2017 memoir Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies, the new movie from director Michael Showalter follows the author and his 13-year-relationship with his partner, Kit, particularly over the period of Kit's terminal cancer diagnosis and eventual death. 'I wasn't one of those people who had a list or a dream casting,' he says of seeing The Big Bang Theorystar Jim Parsons portray a version of him in the new film Spoiler Alert. Entertainment journalist Michael Ausiello has interviewed just about every TV star you can think of - but he never thought he'd be played by one.

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