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Character Breakdown (Paperback)
Zawe Ashton (author)Published: 06/02/2020
Smart, entertaining and compellingly honest, Character Breakdown is Zawe Ashton’s account of her acting career and how the years spent in the thespian world shaped her identity. As well as a personal memoir, Ashton serves up a razor-sharp breakdown of the glitz and gimmicks - as well as the casual racism - of modern day show business.
Cult heroine Zawe Ashton brings us a unique look at life, work and the absurdities of contemporary life
Zawe Ashton has been acting since she was six. She has played many different roles, from 'cute little girl' to 'assassin with attitude', Oscar Wilde's Salome to St Trinian's schoolgirl by way of Fresh Meat's Vod.
To stay sane, an actress must tread a high-wire between life and art, keep sight of where a character ends and the real person begins. So she doesn't lose herself completely.
In Character Breakdown, Zawe scrolls through a version of her life. Or is it a version of her art? Or something in between. In it, she encounters glamour, horror, absurdity and questions like: is a life spent more on performance than reality any life at all?
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9781784703387
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 223 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 19 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
A very great book
A smart, funny and well-written take-down of modern showbiz - Elizabeth Day, Mail on Sunday
Smart, funny, vivid, honest, dark, timely - The Times
An entertaining and original memoir touching on career, life and identity. It is an enjoyable read, despite the humiliating tales of auditions or filming situations where she is physically assessed, objectified or subject to casual racism. Understandably there is an undertone of rage in her keen observations - Hannah Beckerman, Observer
Character Breakdown embraces darkness while also being a wickedly absurd look at modern show business - Stylist
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