With Nails
by Richard E Grant
ISBN: 9781035062768
Published: 2025-04
"An exceptionally vivid and penetrating insight into Hollywood film-making." --The Observer 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,...
Compare Prices
-
KennysIn StockChecked: 9 days agoVisit Store€11.62+ €0.00 shipping (Free over €0)€11.62
-
O'MahonysUnknownChecked: 24 days agoVisit Store€13.75+ €4.99 shipping (Free over €30)€18.74
-
Liber BookshopIn StockChecked: 9 days agoVisit Store€13.95+ €4.50 shipping (Free over €50)€18.45
-
Dubray BooksIn StockChecked: 4 days agoVisit Store€15.95+ €0.00 shipping (Free over €0)€15.95