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Emirates, fly better. Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the of the movies. A Swaziland-born Brit, who began his film career 32 years ago as the title character

in the 1987 cult classic, with Nail and I, who subsequently stole scenes in dozens of other titles and whose most recent role as Jack

Hawk, another drunk, who becomes the co-conspirator of Melissa McCarthy's Lee Israel

in Mario Heller's 2018 Dromity, Can You Ever Forgive Me, has landed him the first

Golden Globe, Critics Choice, SAG, BAFTA, Spirit, and Oscar nominations of his career, all in the category of best supporting actor.

The great Richard E. Grant.

Over the course of our conversation at the offices of the Hollywood reporter, the 61-year-old

and I discussed his off-the-wall childhood and how it shaped him, the

professional struggles that preceded and fed his breakout performance as with nail,

what he made of his subsequent years in Hollywood, which included the 1991

bomb Hudson Hawk, but also led to collaborations with the likes of Robert Altman,

Martin Scorsese, and Francis Ford Coppola.

How, after years of working mostly in Europe, he wound up on HBO's Game of Thrones and Girls,

then in the Wolverine film Logan, and then in Can You Ever Forgive Me, plus much more. So without further ado, let's go to that conversation.

Richard, thank you so much for joining us, appreciate it.

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