This week, actor Jim Carrey's debut novel was published in Swedish, and it does not resemble anything else.
- For me it's fiction, but for Jim it's his memoirs!
Seriously, then!
This is Jim Carrey.
He is multifaceted.
Yes, you laugh a little nervously when Dana Vachon tells this.
For the book Memories and Misunderstandings, which Vachon has co-authored with Jim Carrey for eight years, is "Hollywood-Extra Everything", with stars, sex and a total apocalypse.
"Let's go"
It was in Carrey's painting studio that they met.
Dana Vachon had then written a novel, about her life in New York's financial world, before the bubble burst in 2008. Jim Carrey asked him if he wanted to write something about Carrey's paintings.
- We talked for two years, and then came a text message: now we have been holding for a while;
what have you?
Then I sent him what is roughly the first chapter of the finished book, and I thought: that was it.
But instead came the answer: well, now we drive!
Nobody wants to be Jim Carrey
The book is mainly about what Hollywood does with one, no one who reads the book wants to be Jim Carrey.
- When it comes to such a sick society as the United States is today, illness becomes almost a kind of defense mechanism.
It easily becomes an almost grotesque comedy, and then we ended up in this complex apocalypse.
Yes, there came a spoiler, sorry, but it all ends in a real Armageddon;
California is on fire and evil aliens are attacking.
Mankind's last hope is for Jim Carrey, Nicholas Cage, Tom Hanks, Kim Kardashian, Sean Penn and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Spoiler again: it's not going well.
None of the stars were asked before they became part of the story, but no one has gone to court, yet.
- Since we ended up in the middle of a real apocalypse when the book was finished, there was probably no one who wanted to quarrel about our text.
They probably rather thought it was prophetic, says Dana Vachon.