With Nails The Film Diaries of Richard E. Grant

by Grant, Richard E.

• ISBN13: 9780879519353
• ISBN10: 0879519355
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

With Nails is the brilliantly idiosyncratic, witty, and revealing account of the film business and life among its stars. From visiting sex shops in Paris with Elizabeth Hurley and Hugh Grant, to answering the Spice Girls' probing questions about his sex life during downtime on the set of Spice World, to working with some of Hollywood's biggest directors -- Robert Altman in The Player and Pret a Porter, Francis Ford Coppola in Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Martin Scorsese in The Age of Innocence -- Richard E. Grant has documented what it's like to become a film star with a frank and funny intelligence. Grant's big break, the starring role in Bruce Robinson's cult film Withnail and I, set his career on a path bound for stardom. Like Dante's Virgil, he guides the reader through the hell of making Hollywood movies like Hudson Hawk. He knows he's become an insider when Carrie Fisher reminds him, "You're no longer a tourist, you're one of the attractions". This heady mixture of eating spaghetti with the Coppolas, window-shopping with Sharon Stone, and working with and learning from the best actors and directors in Tinseltown will be irresistible to anyone who loves movies or aspires to be a Hollywood player.