The School of Greatness · 2026-05-27 · 88 min · 16,900 words

Wildly Successful and Quietly Falling Apart | Joel Kinnaman

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I was having a panic attack in front of the whole school. I like blacked out on stage and then I started stumbling on a word and and I was like I couldn't quite like latch on. And then finally like I I like stood up and I went like that and then I walked off. The whole school was just sitting watching me like, oh, he's having an emotional breakdown. He is an actor who has starred in some of Hollywood's biggest

franchises. But behind the action hero exterior is a man who has had to do the inner work in order to achieve the level of success that he has achieved. We have the inspiring Joel Kinneman in the house. I was in the abyss. Something in me is telling me that I can't do this.

I can't eat. I'm throwing up and now I'm having like panic attacks. My constitution can't handle this. How have you been able to navigate eating disorder, stage fright, and panic attacks while also being at the top of Hollywood? So I I started thinking about like these like forces in me, what would provoke them the most?

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