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#177 Richard E Grant: On His Career, Spice World & The Oscars

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode is with the brilliant Oscar-nominated actor Richard E. Grant. He is best known for his roles in Gosford Park (2001), Withnail & I (1987) and Hudson Hawk (1991) and my personal FAVE Spice World: The Movie (1997). He has worked with some of America's greatest directors, such as Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese.


He will appear in Star Wars in 2019 in a currently undisclosed part. In this episode, we chat about Richard's part in the fantastic film Can You Ever Forgive Me? where he plays the real-life character Jack Hock alongside Melissa McCarthy which has earned him an Academy Award, a BAFTA, a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, as well as winning a New York Film Critics Circle Award. The film is based on the book of the same name by Lee Israel and well worth a read.


Apologies that this episode is a little shorter than usual, but I hope you enjoy this episode!



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Hello and welcome back to Control-Or Delete. I'm so excited to tell you that today's

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guest is with the amazing Richard E Grant, who I first fell in love with in Spice World, the movie, in the 90s.

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I absolutely love that movie and I know that I should probably say that I know him from some of his other works,

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but that is the film I grew up on and watched a billion times, so it was so exciting to meet him.

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Richardie Grant is obviously a very well-known actor. He's probably best known for his roles in Gosford Park with Nail and I, Hudson Hawk, and obviously my personal fave, Spice World the movie. He's worked with some of the greatest American directors like Robert Altman and Martin Scorsese, among many others.

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He will also appear in Star Wars this year in a currently undisclosed part.

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But in this episode we talk about his role in the an Oscar nomination, a Bafter, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, as well as

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winning a New York Film Critics Circle Award.

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He is absolutely fantastic in this role as Jack Hawk, the friend to Lee Israel who the film

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centers around. I also recommend picking up a copy of the book, also called Can You Ever

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Forgive Me, Memoirs of a Literary Forger.

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