I, Addict: The story behind the critically acclaimed new Disney+ series by the person who lived it (EXCLUSIVE)

Oriol Pla in I, Addict (Image: Disney+)

Javier Giner is the co-creator and co-director of new Disney+ series I, Addict, which stars Oriol Pla and is about a man in his 30s who voluntarily checks into a detox centre in Barcelona to overcome his addictions to drugs, alcohol, and sex. It is based on Giner’s same-titled autobiographical novel. Here, Giner shares with Attitude his deeply personal notes on the making of the film, and the real-life story behind it.

Although many years have passed and the successive forms that this story has taken (one of the most terrifying, tormented, luminous and healing moments of my existence) allow me enough distance to be able to speak of it as fiction, since I have lived it, I have described it in a book,

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