"Because my father was 42 when this happened, I went to all the usual suspects of that age. Grant's first problem was assembling a cast. "I tried God and never got a reply so I gave up on that after a couple of years. "I started keeping a diary that very day and have done ever since," he tells me now. While pretending to be asleep on the back seat of his mother's Mercedes, he saw her make love to his father's best friend. Instead, it was the traumatic experience of witnessing her infidelity that first shocked an 11-year-old Grant into recording his thoughts and feelings on paper. For, as Grant's new movie - his semi-autobiographical directorial debut, Wah-Wah - makes plain, his mother was not that sort of a woman. Not that his diary-keeping received any maternal encouragement. Richard E Grant has his mother to thank for his assiduous diary-keeping - one of whose by-products has been the enjoyable With Nails journals about the making of everybody's favourite Richard E Grant film, Withnail and I.
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