{"id":10412,"date":"2019-12-19T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10412"},"modified":"2019-12-30T14:10:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T21:10:11","slug":"newsweek-the-taylor-johnsons-on-a-million-little-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/19\/newsweek-the-taylor-johnsons-on-a-million-little-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWSWEEK – The Taylor-Johnson’s on A MILLION LITTLE PIECES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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AARON AND SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON TALK ‘A MILLION LITTLE PIECES,’ COLLABORATING AND ADDICTION<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0H. ALAN SCOTT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Sam Taylor-Johnson attend the Build Series to discuss ‘A Million Little Pieces’ at Build Studio December 02, 2019 in New York City.\u00a0DOMINIK BINDL\/GETTY IMAGES<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

James Frey’s book A Million Little Pieces<\/em> could arguably be considered one of the most controversial books published in recent history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The controversy surrounding its semi-fictional memoir-style made it one of the internet’s first viral scandals of the publishing world. But beyond the controversy\u2014and the infamous interview Frey did with Oprah Winfrey in 2005\u2014is a story about a person struggling with addiction and desperately trying to find a way out of it. That’s the story director Sam Taylor-Johnson told in her new film adaption of the memoir, starring and co-written by her husband Aaron Taylor-Johnson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I read it and loved it and went on the journey with James,” Sam told Newsweek Conversations<\/em>. “I continued on the journey with James through what happened with the book and the controversy, public shaming and humiliation.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Loosely based on Frey’s own journey, Aaron dived into the character by working closely with Frey, communicating regularly, going on a road trip together and even visiting the rehabilitation center where Frey first sought treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It was really overwhelming for him to step through those doors again,” Aaron told\u00a0Newsweek Conversations<\/em>. “He said he hadn’t been back in over 20 years. I guess the rawness of it is he was an addict and now, today, he’s 26 years sober. It’s phenomenal.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from NEWSWEEK AARON AND SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON TALK ‘A MILLION LITTLE PIECES,’ COLLABORATING AND ADDICTION BY\u00a0H. ALAN SCOTT James Frey’s book A Million Little Pieces could arguably be considered one of the most controversial books published in recent history. The controversy surrounding its semi-fictional memoir-style made it one of the internet’s first viral scandals of the publishing world. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}