Joseph Gordon-Levitt created a collaborative online community of artists in HITRECORD, and he’s enlisted them to join him in revisiting some painful memories for his new book, The Art of Breaking Up, described as being “all about breaking up from both the perspectives of the heartbreaker and the brokenhearted.”
For the book, the 38-year-old “Inception” star describes the worst breakup he ever experienced, in excruciating detail.
In his essay, he recalls how he felt walking through LAX six months after the split. “I hated myself,” he writes. “I did not hate her. I missed her. I was mad at her. I was madly in love with her. And she was madly in love with me too. No, she wasn’t anymore. She had been though.”
He continues: “I was in physical pain every day. My body hurt. I’d wake up and wish I hadn’t woken up. I wanted to be unconscious. I wanted to break stuff. Or I wanted to break myself.”
Ultimately, he came to see that the experience “knocked me off my high horse” and helped him to evolve into the person he would become. “The funny paradox is that if I hadn’t been such a judgemental little pr**k, maybe she wouldn’t have left me,” he explains. “But if she hadn’t left me, then maybe I wouldn’t have learned to stop being such a judgemental little pr**k.”
Speaking with People, Gordon-Levitt explained the inspiration behind the project. “Life can be painful, especially a love life. I know this from personal experience. Luckily, I’m very happy in my marriage right now, but I certainly remember a time when love and romance was a very emotionally turbulent part of my life,” said Gordon-Levitt, who married wife Tasha McCauley in 2014. “Really, a big way that I would cope was write a story, or sing something, or shoot a video. Creativity is such a healing thing, especially when you’re not being creative alone.”
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Gordon-Levitt shared his hopes for the the Art of Breaking Up. “Even though the book is fun, and a lot of it is humorous, it’s very sincere in its respect for the pain of what it means to break up,” he continued. “There are actual creative prompts in the book itself. It’ll say, ‘Okay, here’s your chance to write’ or ‘Here’s your chance to draw.’ But even go beyond that, and get creative yourself. Write something. Write a longer story, or draw something. This is what HITRECORD is all about.”
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