So there's one kind of shock when those people (again, not real people) are revealed to my agent and editor, later, if I'm lucky, to readers. It's dislocating, it's strange, to see reviews mention these people (once more, not real people). It's a whole other level of oddity to see these imagined people embodied by real people, on a screen. I won't even get into how bizarre it is that in this case some of those real people are actors to whom I have some relationship as a person who sees movies, who is touched by the popular culture. I mean, I had a debilitating crush on Ethan Hawke as a teenager and now he's playing a character I created. Deranged!
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