Richard E Grant has claimed his daughter became treated “appallingly” by stars while working on movie and TV sets.
The Swaziland-born actor has spoken out about how his daughter, Olivia Grant, became treated by “very well-known household names” when she worked as a runner in the movie and TV enterprise earlier in her occupation.
In an interview with Sky News, Grant became asked what he opinion became basically the most “under-appreciated” role on a movie set.
“The runners, who are paid the least amount of money,” the 67-year-old answered. “They’re the youngest. They get there at five in the morning, they’re the last to leave, and if anything goes wrong, they get flung s**t from a dizzy height.”
“I know because my daughter was a runner for two years,” Grant continued. “And was appallingly treated by some very well-known household names, in England.”
The Saltburn actor then eminent that once the stars in question realized that Olivia became his daughter, they “changed their tune”.
“(That) made it worse,” Grant explained. “It made me damn those people even more.”
When asked if he had ever met any of the actors who mistreated his daughter, the actor answered, “I’ve met one person, yeah, and I’ll never speak to him again.”
Olivia, now 35, went on to develop into a casting director and has worked on projects along with basically the most fresh Lee Miller biopic Lee, starring Kate Winslet, and the Apple TV+ sequence Masters of the Air, starring Austin Butler and Callum Turner.
Grant became married to Olivia’s mother, Joan Washington, from 1986 till her demise in September 2021.
