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Ellis\u2019 memoir is out Tuesday, July 30, and is based on his childhood imaginary friend.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a collection of short stories that thematically all go together, but it\u2019s this wild, adventurous childhood that I grew up with and this imaginary friend who helped me through it,\u201d he explained. \u201cAnd really, it\u2019s a love letter to the \u201990s, it\u2019s a love letter to my family because I bounced around and spent summers in different places. So, [it\u2019s for] all the people who raised me, my friends. A love letter to all the cities that I lived in, my dad was in the Air Force so I moved around a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ellis shared that writing the book got him back to thinking about \u201cimagination, creativity and play, and how we all need it as adults\u201d in one form or another.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s healthy and it\u2019s, for me, what makes me tick as a performer,\u201d the Top Gun: Maverick<\/em> actor said.<\/p>\nKrasinski, 44, meanwhile, previously said he started writing IF<\/em>, which hit theaters in May, after noticing that his two daughters stopped playing make-believe games amid the stress of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThank You!<\/h3>\n
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<\/div>Mike Coppola\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cIt was actually the pandemic that really got me thinking about the movie because their light started to go out, and they started playing fewer and fewer imaginary games,\u201d he said during a June appearance on the \u201cPop Culture Moms\u201d podcast. \u201cThey were asking big questions about, \u2018Are we going to be OK?\u2019 And I thought, that\u2019s the definition of growing up, and that choice about whether you stay a kid or grow up doesn\u2019t have to be made here. So, I wrote a movie about how that magical world \u2026 it will always be there for you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Krasinski shares daughters Hazel, 10, and Violet, 8, with wife Emily Blunt<\/strong>. Ellis, for his part, shares daughter Nora, 4, with wife Nina Seni\u010dar<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
Krasinski, 44, meanwhile, previously said he started writing IF<\/em>, which hit theaters in May, after noticing that his two daughters stopped playing make-believe games amid the stress of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \u201cIt was actually the pandemic that really got me thinking about the movie because their light started to go out, and they started playing fewer and fewer imaginary games,\u201d he said during a June appearance on the \u201cPop Culture Moms\u201d podcast. \u201cThey were asking big questions about, \u2018Are we going to be OK?\u2019 And I thought, that\u2019s the definition of growing up, and that choice about whether you stay a kid or grow up doesn\u2019t have to be made here. So, I wrote a movie about how that magical world \u2026 it will always be there for you.\u201d<\/p>\n Krasinski shares daughters Hazel, 10, and Violet, 8, with wife Emily Blunt<\/strong>. Ellis, for his part, shares daughter Nora, 4, with wife Nina Seni\u010dar<\/strong>.<\/p>\nThank You!<\/h3>\n
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