With Nails Picador Classic

The star of the cult classic Withnail and I offers “a refreshing combination of comedy confession and coruscation” in this memoir of the movie business Kirkus Reviews. Richard E. Grant’s acting career has included memorable roles in some of Hollywood’s most critically acclaimed films including Robert Altman’s Gosford Park and Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula. But he attributes his success to his first film role starring as a flamboyantly pathetic Shakespearean in the underground hit Withnail and I. As Grant explains “I had no notion that almost without exception every film offered since would be the result of playing an alcoholic outofwork actor.” In With Nails Grant shares his long maddening and immensely rewarding journey through the world of film. From the hell of making Hudson Hawk to befriending Steve Martin on the set of L.A. Story and from eating spaghetti with the Coppolas to windowshopping with Sharon Stone and working with and learning from the best actors and directors in the business Grant’s unvarnished memoir “is a biting and wonderfully funny look at the movie business by an actor who is as cleareyed and observant about himself as he is about the craziness surrounding him” Publishers Weekly starred review.