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

by Kurt Henricks

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798369217177
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	04/07/2023
Edition description:	First Printing ed.
Pages:	274
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

Kurt Henricks (1962 - ) Working on and off camera since age 3, Kurt Henricks earned a BA in Film/TV Production from UCLA while working as Assistant Script Supervisor on That's Incredible! He joined post-Roger Corman New World Entertainment as Junior Publicist for hit shows including The Wonder Years, Tour of Duty and Crime Story. Kurt was brought to 20th Century Fox by publicity legend Booker McClay to coordinate the studio's Academy Awards campaigns for films including Home Alone and Edward Scissorhands.

After moving to Manhattan in 1992, Henricks worked in Press Relations and Marketing for Showtime, Fox Primetime and McCann-Erickson. Throughout his career Kurt has made appearances in front of the camera including Background work on HBO's Succession, and The Plot Against America (2020), Hulu's Monsterland (2020), Disney's The Law and Harry McGraw, Showtime's Billions and the role of Lord Mountbatten in ABC/Disney's miniseries War and Remembrance, winner of 3 Golden Globes and 3 Emmys. Now living in upstate New York, Kurt researches 17th century history, cooks for high end restaurants, trains dogs, runs a lighting business and practices permaculture and organic farming.