![\"Richard](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Richard-E-Grant-Actor-Far-Out-Magazine-F-1140x855.jpg\")
<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
(Credits: Far Out \/ Alamy)<\/p>\n
Mon 1 September 2025 15:15, UK <\/p>\n
Richard E Grant<\/a> should be way more of a star than he actually is. <\/p>\n One of the few actors in the world who adds a certain brilliance to any production he is included in, Grant\u2019s position as a British national treasure should be extended globally. He can be fierce, vulnerable and hilarious within a few separate lines, but he\u2019s still never quite cracked his way to the top of the Hollywood pile.<\/p>\n Even though he\u2019s never made it to that particular rarified air, Grant\u2019s CV still contains some absolute bangers. In recent times, he scored an Oscar nomination for Can You Ever Forgive Me? and played an understated, yet key role in Emerald Fennell\u2019s viral sensation Saltburn. In his storied past, he\u2019s worked alongside some of the finest filmmakers of all time, including Martin Scorsese and, on more than one occasion, Robert Altman. Then there\u2019s Withnail & I, the existential comedy masterpiece<\/a> that was his first foray into screen acting. <\/p>\n All of this experience primes Grant perfectly to comment on the work of others. When asked to provide some of his favourite films by The Academy<\/a>, he opted for both The Godfather and its sequel. However, when it comes to his absolute favourite, it\u2019s the second instalment that ended up taking the number one spot.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Godfather Part II feels like the story of 20th-century America to me,\u201d he said. Grant may be like any other viewer in picking the classic movie, but his appreciation for the film seems to rely on one central image: \u201cWhen it shows Don Corleone arriving at Ellis Island and he sees the Statue of Liberty after travelling from Sicily, it\u2019s like every immigrant\u2019s dream.\u201d <\/p>\n For a British man, with roots across the world, it\u2019s perhaps expected that Grant connected with the idealistic vision of the American dream slowly being tarnished by a reality nobody ever wants to accept. \u201cYou think you\u2019re going to go to America and you\u2019re going to find your fortune,\u201d he continues, \u201cand then you see how that gets corrupted by the end of the story.\u201d <\/p>\n He explained that both films were immaculate in every possible way, especially in terms of casting. \u201cAl Pacino\u2019s performance is absolutely astonishing in the film,\u201d he elaborated. \u201cThe whole cast really is remarkable.\u201d He touched on the controversy surrounding a lack of women across the trilogy, noting how Connie (Talia Shire) and Kay (Diane Keaton) are basically the only female characters. However, he still wanted to acknowledge that both women\u2019s performances were \u201cabsolutely extraordinary\u201d.<\/p>\n Decades after the release of his favourite film, Grant got the chance of a lifetime; to work with the man who directed. He was cast in Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula, which is one of the longest-winded movie titles ever made. Grant plays Dr Jack Seward, the man in charge of a mental asylum housing the now-insane R M Renfield. Singer Tom Waits played that particular role and Grant has some great stories<\/a> about their time on-set together.<\/p>\n There isn\u2019t much credibility to be gained in picking the first two editions of the Godfather story as favourite movies. But Grant connected with something far beyond bravado, his was an affection for genuine story, which originally brought him into the theatre in the first place. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ Alamy) Mon 1 September 2025 15:15, UK Richard E Grant should be way more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,47091,52222,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-107487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-richard-e-grant","11":"tag-the-godfather","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}