Richard E Grant has admitted he can’t bring himself to watch his own movies.
The Saltburn actor published he was as soon as “appalled” the first time he watched himself on mask.
Richard, 67, opened up about his discomfort with viewing his own performances and described the time he watched his first movie, 1987’s Withnail and I.
“I watched the first film I was ever in thirty-seven years ago, I watched a screening of it and was so appalled that I offered the director, Bruce Robinson, the money back,” he advised The Dish podcast.
“I was so horrified, because you can’t fix it, you just think, Oh my god, is that what you look like?”
No topic his aversion to seeing himself on mask, Richard emphasised his passion for performing.
“You love doing it, I love doing the acting stuff, but you do not want to watch the replay afterwards,” he confessed.
The Argylle actor also discussed his prefer for auditioning from house rather than attending in-person tryouts.
“(Self-taping is) great,” he said. “You can learn the thing and then prepare it and then you do it, and you’re not nervous because you’re at home and then if you cock it up you can redo it.”
He described how crushing an in-person audition will be when the interview panel was as soon as unresponsive.
“Whereas if you walk into a room… and the person that’s just leaving is, you know, best friends with the casting director, saying, ‘Darling, we’ll call you next week, dinner, darling’,” he joked.
“It’s soul destroying… So it’s better to self-tape, for me.”
