I received this one from three people today – Sue W, Stargazer and REG himself. I thought, with so much enthusiasm, I should put this up straight away. Enjoy!

Richard E Grant still talks darkly about a period in 1985 when he was unemployed for a full nine months.

“When you’ve been around as long as I have, it sounds disingenuous to say you’re anxious about work, and I’m not here to sing the blues about it,” he says. “But that left a great big mark on me.”

At the moment Grant is hardly under-employed; in fact, it’s rather difficult to avoid him. His are the honeyed tones of the villain in Tim Burton’s animated fairytale Corpse Bride.

He’s just finished Above and Beyond, a “gung-ho” TV mini-series about flying Hurricane bombers across the North Atlantic in the winter of 1940. Wah-Wah, his debut as a writer-director, opens early next year. And he’s presently starring in Simon Gray’s comedy Otherwise Engaged, which arrives in the West End next week.

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