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Nathan Fielder: Rehearsing Reality - Comedy, Control, and the Cost of Truth.

Nathan Fielder: Rehearsing Reality - Comedy, Control, and the Cost of Truth.

Moran, Mollie

Paperback

Acting & Auditioning

ISBN13: 9798292050728
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 11 2025
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

From the mind behind Nathan For You and The Rehearsal comes the story he never intended to tell-until the lines between bit and truth finally disappeared.

Nathan Fielder: Rehearsing Reality is a rare look inside the life of one of television's most enigmatic creators. Told in his own voice, this intimate first-person narrative traces Fielder's quiet childhood in Vancouver, his deadpan evolution through magic, business school, and comedy, and his rise to cult icon status by turning human awkwardness into emotional architecture.

But behind the elaborate pranks and emotionally charged simulations was something deeper: a man rehearsing life because he didn't trust it could be lived unprepared.

In this deeply personal account, Fielder reflects on the moral weight of manipulating real people for comedy, the grief of losing a child he never truly had, and the cost of building control where chaos belongs. What begins as a story about performance becomes something else entirely-a confession about vulnerability, distance, and the fear of being truly known.

Unflinchingly honest, darkly funny, and disarmingly moving, Rehearsing Reality is not just a portrait of a performer. It's a meditation on what it means to connect in a world where every moment feels like a test-and where sometimes, the hardest part of being yourself is knowing when to stop acting.

For fans of memoirs like Becoming, Will, and I'm Glad My Mom Died, this is not the Nathan Fielder you think you know. It's the one he's finally ready to show.

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