This is the best celebrity book I’ve read in a while. A truly solid essay collection from start to finish. Wu’s writing is honest, vulnerable and smart. She says that she actually wanted to become a writer before she aspired to be an actress and it shows.

Also, the title seems really obvious but it’s cleverly threaded throughout the book in different ways -there’s what you would expect about literal scenes in performances, making scenes in her personal life and times when she was silent or ignored her instinct because she didn’t want to “make a scene.”