<p><b>With an introduction by Steve Martin</b><br><br><i>Two pages into the script and an ache has developed in my gonads - I am both laughing out loud and agonized by the fact that the Withnail part is such a corker that not in a billion bank holidays will they ever seriously consider me. </i><br><br>When, in the summer of 1986, Richard E. Grant was cast as the lead in<i> Withnail and I</i>, his whole world shifted and he was set firmly on the path to international stardom. <i>With Nails</i> is his outrageous, irreverent and brutally funny account of that time and the years afterwards, of his self-doubt and anxiety on the route to Hollywood, and of all the extraordinary, mad, brilliant people in the film business. <br><br>From drinking himself incoherent so he could film <i>Withnail and I </i>to a night spent in Paris's red light district with a world-famous couple, to working wit