Robert meets actress, singer and author Gina Gershon for a special live Talk Art recorded at TKE Studios in Margate in August 2026. Episode introduced by Dame Tracey Emin.
We explore Gina’s lifelong love of art, friendships with artists including Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed and Tracey Emin plus inspiring stories from her own creative adventures acting in Hollywood and writing her inspiring new memoir AplhaPussy.
Gina's onscreen career runs from Bound and Showgirls to Face/Off and The Player, alongside stage work including Sam Mendes's Cabaret on Broadway. She's also just come off guest judging RuPaul's Drag Race, not forgetting her role as Hannah in Curb Your Enthusiasm. On top of all that, she's an author several times over, having previously written a memoir about her cat, In Search of Cleo, and co-written the YA novel Camp Creepy Time with her brother Dann.
Now she's back with her new memoir, AlphaPussy: How I Survived the Valley & Learned to Love My Boobs, a wild, funny, and refreshingly honest collection of stories from growing up in the San Fernando Valley through decades in Hollywood and beyond.
AlphaPussy is a collection of true stories about experience, resilience, and the messy art of figuring it out as you go. They include sometimes strange encounters with such personalities as Paul Verhoeven, Tom Cruise, Sharon Stone, Prince, Bob Dylan, Sylvester Stallone, David Mamet, Bob Fosse, and so many others. Often hilarious, usually cautionary, and almost always wrapped in absurdity, Gershon’s tales examine the bad decisions, awkward moments, and cringe-worthy interactions that somehow gave rise to survival skills.
In a world full of bullies, predators, and people trying to tell her who she was, or who she should be, it was crucial for Gershon to become an AlphaPussy: a woman who navigates through this perilous jungle of a world with personal agency and responsibility.
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Gina Gershon's memoir AlphaPussy is out now, but published by Akashic Books. Buy your copy here.
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