With Nails

With an introduction by Steve Martin Two pages into the script and an ache has developed in my gonads - I am both laughing out loud and agonized by the fact that the Withnail part is such a corker that not in a billion bank holidays will they ever seriously consider me. When, in the summer of 1986, Richard E. Grant was cast as the lead in Withnail and I , his whole world shifted and he was set firmly on the path to international stardom. With Nails is his outrageous, irreverent and brutally funny account of that time and the years afterwards, of his self-doubt and anxiety on the route to Hollywood, and of all the extraordinary, mad, brilliant people in the film business. From drinking himself incoherent so he could film Withnail and I to a night spent in Paris''s red light district with a world-famous couple, to working with Hollywood''s biggest actors and directors, Richard E. Grant - always eloquent, always honest - has documented, in his own inimitable style, what it is to become a film star. A rare classic, there is no book quite like it.

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In these dashing diaries of his recent years in the movies, Grant shares with candour his wonder at this aberrant universe and its inhabitants Sunday Times

Product details

• Authors: Richard E Grant, Richard E Grant, Richard E. Grant
• Assisted by: Steve Martin (Introduction), Martin Steve (Introduction)
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781447289531
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-8953-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Picador Classic; Picador Classics; Picador Classic; Picador Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; Autobiography: general, PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning, Films, cinema, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Individual actors and performers, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Withnail and I; film industry; Hollywood; cinema; actors