{"product_id":"9781447289531-with-nails","title":"With Nails","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn exceptionally vivid and penetrating insight into Hollywood film-making . Qualifies for that exclusive niche reserved for film star memoirs that are worth much more than a casual flick on the bookshop shelf' Jonathan Coe, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith an introduction by Steve Martin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTwo 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. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen, in the summer of 1986, Richard E. Grant was cast as the lead in\u003ci\u003e Withnail and I\u003c\/i\u003e, his whole world shifted and he was set firmly on the path to international stardom. \u003ci\u003eWith Nails\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom drinking himself incoherent so he could film \u003ci\u003eWithnail and I \u003c\/i\u003eto 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943984607329,"sku":"9781447289531","price":10.93,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27832641.jpg?v=1722084822","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781447289531-with-nails","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}