“Spoiler Alert,” the new film based on entertainment journalist Michael Ausiello’s 2017 memoir, looks for the magic in a real-life love story with a tragic final chapter. - NBCOUT
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“Writing the book was isolating. I had just lost Kit, so I was still deep in grief while I was writing it. It was a hard, lonely process,” Ausiello, who founded the popular entertainment site TVLine, told NBC News. “Making a film, you’re surrounded by all these other incredible artists, and it’s so much more collaborative. On top of that, having some distance from Kit’s death allowed me to enjoy the process.
“There was never any discussion of him doing an impersonation of me. He was going to create his own version and put his stamp on the role. So I was never precious about little things,” Ausiello said. “Having said that, it’s still incredibly weird — in the best kind of way — to watch Jim Parsons play me. This is an actor I’ve admired for so long. Even watching the movie now, it’s still a bit of a head trip to see it.
The other, he added, was that the movie “needed to be true to the fact that Kit’s parents showed up for him when he got sick.” “I had such a close relationship with my mom. Those flashbacks illuminate the relationship I had with my mother, that close bond, and the sadness of having her ripped away from me at such a young age,” Ausiello said. “I think Michael [Showalter] did a beautiful job telling that through this very unorthodox ‘80s sitcom lens.”
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