Bad Guy! Journal of a Hollywood Turkey *** NUMBER 1 BOOK ***

*** NUMBER 1 BOOK ***

Bad Guy! is actor Steven Berkoff’s record of his time working on a Hollywood blockbuster. The project promised to be a fascinating co-operative venture, with the director keen to stretch the actors and use their skills to improve a typically unimaginative and predictable script. Contracts were signed, flights were booked. Yet once filming began and the Hollywood machine kicked into gear, all deviations from the utterly banal were quashed. Input or personality was no longer required, instead the only response necessary was vacuous pandering to the whims of the purse-holders. This rollercoaster account of the frustrations created by mindless shackles on creativity shows the bright lights of Hollywood on a dimmer setting.



* Number 1 Kindle/Arts/Acting, February 2014