Movies An empire’s end, and childhood’s too Please know that I’m not saying out loud, “Oh, I said to Stuart…” but in my head it’s still there and I find that a very reassuring way of dealing with this loss. It’s like how I was so grieved by that idea of not being able to share my day with her in all the detail : Is that an Edward Hopper behind you and a baseball bat on the wall? But then I thought that after 38 years I know what her response would be, how she’d be analyzing your accent in Brooklyn. I feel like it’s an ongoing conversation, and I feel reassured by having all of the stuff and all the stories around them. Do they lose their power without her there with you? You write about “memory-charged” objects that you bought together. Somebody who read the book carved the title in wood for me so I have three of those around the house as reminders. I just sold our summer home in France that we had for 35 years and it feels like a second bereavement. I’m conscious of trying to follow her mantra and it has been incredibly helpful even though there are days you are tsunamied by grief. Was that doable in the early days of grieving? What about now? Joan’s parting charge for you was to find a “pocketful of happiness” each day. Grant find an emotional truth to ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ scoundrels He agreed to do it only if he could avoid it being “all doom and gloom.” So the book encompasses their full relationship, alongside stories from his career, weaving in his experience making “ Can You Ever Forgive Me” with Melissa McCarthy and the Oscar nomination that followed - as well as encounters with Barbra Streisand, whom Grant has been obsessed with nearly his entire life.Īwards Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant initially refused approaches from publishers this time, but his daughter thought it would be good for him. “I will cross the road and I will blank them.”) (“The one percent who didn’t are the ones I’ll never speak to again,” he says vehemently. It was also important for Grant to capture the generosity of the 99% of his friends who “stepped up and were beyond extraordinary” throughout the crisis, including famous ones like Gabriel Byrne. “My diary was a way of trying to hold on to and capture all that.” “Your memory forgets stuff and tricks you, and I wanted to have a record of every day and every stage we went through together,” says Grant, whose new book, “ A Pocketful of Happiness,” charts those terrible times but also explores their 38 years together. Grant,” which takes its name from his breakout role in “ Withnail and I” and “ The Wah Wah Diaries,” about directing an autobiographical movie, “Wah-Wah.”īut his writing never meant more to him than it did between December 2020, when his beloved wife, Joan Washington, a highly acclaimed dialect coach, was diagnosed with cancer, and the following September, when she died. His past diaries produced two fun books about his day job: “With Nails: The Film Diaries of Richard E. It is a habit that Grant, 66, has maintained ever since. This was obviously traumatic, so Grant, having no one he could talk to about it, started keeping a diary. Upon awakening, he saw his mother and a friend of his father’s having sex in the front seat. Grant was 10 years old, he fell asleep in the back seat of the car. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.
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