The Telegraph (Exerpt) – 7th November, 2005

The insider guide to forthcoming attractions, by Nicola Christie

Anthony Head can currently be seen alongside Richard E Grant in London’s West End, playing a gloriously drunk journalist in Simon Gray’s Otherwise Engaged. And the two look set to collaborate again, in a film that Grant has written – based on his 1998 comic novel By Design – in which Head will play a transvestite.

LEFT: Anthony Head and Richard E Grant in Otherwise Engaged.

“The story is really about what goes on in the making of a movie, as opposed to the PR version,” says Grant.

“I need an interior designer and a masseuse, but I would really like to direct Tony as a transvestite, so I’m trying to work in a character.” Supposing he does, would Head be game to get in touch with his feminine side? “Absolutely,” he says. “I really love Richard. It would be great to be directed by him. And I have good legs.”