Dimensions
153 x 234 x 22mm
Richard E Grant's frank personal diary charting the ups and downs of the making of 'Wah-Wah', his first movie as writer and director.
Ten years after the publication of 'With Nails', Richard E Grant's brilliant memoir of his years in Hollywood, Picador are proud to be publishing 'Wah-Wah', the very personal diaries of his debut behind the camera, as writer and director of his autobiographical movie of the same name. It is both a fascinating insight into the intrigues and agonies he encounters along the way, and also a deeply moving portrait of his childhood and his love affair with Swaziland, where he was born and brought up during the last throes of the British Empire.
Through the mayhem – never-ending financial pressures; hostilities and finally breakdown of communication with his producer; the nerve-racking quest to persuade the King of Swaziland to grant permission to film in his country; the assembly of a stellar cast including Gabriel Byrne, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, and Julie Walters – Richard E Grant has written, with characteristic humour and charm, an extraordinarily honest and revealing account of a labour of love and the realisation of a dream.
