'You'll laugh, you'll cry, especially if you're in the book like I am' - Steve Martin
'An exceptionally vivid and penetrating insight into Hollywood film-making' Observer
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.
Now part of the Picador Collection.
| ISBN: | 9781035062768 |
| Publication date: | 3rd April 2025 |
| Author: | Richard E Grant |
| Publisher: | Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 336 pages |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Genres: |
Memoirs Autobiography: arts and entertainment Autobiography: general Individual actors and performers Films, cinema |
'You'll laugh, you'll cry, especially if you're in the book like I am' - Steve Martin
'An exceptionally vivid and penetrating insight into Hollywood film-making' Observer
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.
Now part of the Picador Collection.
With Nails features in the following genres: Memoirs, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Autobiography: general, Individual actors and performers, Films, cinema
With Nails is available in Paperback, Ebook
With Nails was written by Richard E Grant and published by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan
With Nails has 336 pages
Yes it is part of Picador Collection series
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