Kenya Barris is not an actor. A 45-year-old screenwriter, he has produced reality television (“America’s Next Top Model”), written movies (“Girls Trip”) and mined his own life for the long-running ABC show “black-ish.” Now freed from the constraints of network television thanks to a $100 million Netflix deal, Barris is aiming to reinvent the family comedy by taking a page out of Larry David’s playbook and turning the camera on himself with “#blackAF.”

It’s an audacious move, creating a heightened, hyperbolic, fictionalized view of his life, one that is certain to erase his relative anonymity for good and perhaps stir up some controversy in the process. So how is Barris feeling as his acting debut on Friday draws near? Reached earlier this week at his home in Encino, Calif., in the middle of the quarantine, he described his upset stomach in graphic terms and opened up about his level of fear.

“I’m terrified. The visibility and the fact that it launches all at once,” he said before trailing off. “The anxiety I’m feeling is like nothing I’ve ever felt before.”

In the eight episodes of “#blackAF,” Barris plays Kenya Barris, a successful television writer with six children, a corporate lawyer-turned-stay-at-home wife (Rashida Jones) and a misanthropic outlook on life. If “black-ish,” with its funny-yet-endearing story lines that explore the lives of an upper middle class black family, represent Barris’s ego, “#blackAF” is Barris’s id.