ContactMusic.com – Monday 8th August, 2005

Richard E Grant is glad Hollywood shunned him for attacking US movie bosses in his 1996 autobiography “With Nails” – because the only movies which come out of America consist of “famous people running away from explosions”.

The British screen star has no time for America’s movie industry, and is even less patient with the movie-goers who happily accept the constant stream of formulaic action films.

He fumes, “What is there now? Famous people running away from explosions. That’s it.

“Audiences will queue round the block to see an unimaginably highly-paid film star running away from a fantastically expensive explosion.

“They think it’s their money’s worth. I despair that’s what people have to do.”