FemaleFirst.com – 15th November, 2011

“How To Stop Being A Loser” director, Dominic Burns, was recently interviewed by Helen Earnshaw for FemaleFirst.com on the making of the film. During the interview he talks about Richard’s involvement in the movie and how he came on board. I’ve included the excerpt from the interview below.

“It was also nice to make something that the girls would enjoy as well having just done a gangster film (laughs). So that was how it came about really and we developed it and we saw a part that we thought Richard E. Grant would be a dream for we took a punt and went for him – he was by far the biggest name that we had ever approached – and he took it. And off we went from there.

It was a simple case of brainstorming ideas, Simon and I and then the writers. When we first started the project we were like ‘give us your ideas on who you like’ and we gave them ours and we all kind of reached an agreement. Richard E Grant was top of the list and we just approached the agent and went for him first – we had done enough work for him to consider us.

He read it and asked some questions and we went from there – the beautiful thing about making films on a low budget you know that if you do get those actors on board you are getting them from a passionate point of view because we can’t afford to buy them (laughs).

And so when Richard came on board it became a lot easier because as soon as you say you are doing a movie with Richard E Grant everyone was like ‘well I will have a read of that’. So off it went and we ended up with a really impressive ensemble cast.”

The read the entire interview in full, just go to the FemaleFirst website.