Hollywood actor Richard E Grant claims he has not eaten lamb since shooting the iconic movie Withnail and I after he was forced to repeatedly do over a scene after his co-star made mistakes
Richard E Grant said filming the movie Withnail and I put him off eating lamb for life.
The Hollywood actor claims he has not eaten a lamb roast since shooting the iconic movie because he had to scoff so much during filming due to co-star repeatedly fluffing his lines.
Grant, 68, who made his movie debut playing Withnail, said fellow actor Richard Griffiths kept getting his lines wrong during a roast dinner scene.
That meant they needed lots of takes. Grant said he ended up eating “four legs of lamb and I don’t know how many potatoes”. He had to wolf down the dinner at speed because his character had to appear famished.
That made the experience even more torturous. A sick bucket had to be put next to him on set. He has never eaten lamb since.
In the smash hit 1987 comedy Grant and Paul McGann, 65, star as two unemployed actors. Late Harry Potter star Griffiths played Withnail’s eccentric Uncle Monty whose Lake District cottage the pair holiday in.
Grant told the Ruthie’s Table 4 podcast: “The first film I was ever in, Withnail and I, Richard Griffiths had arrived from Italy. He’d been filming there.
“He had not learned the lines very well and Paul McGann and I’d had 10 days’ rehearsal so we knew the script back to front.
“Richard kept fluffing his lines in this Cumbrian cottage where we were filming. And because my character had not supposedly eaten in three days I had to eat very, very fast.
“A Sunday lunch – roast lamb and roast potatoes. I think I got through four legs of lamb and I don’t know how many kilos of potatoes.
“Eventually I had to have a vomit bucket next to me because I couldn’t keep it down. So I’ve never eaten lamb willingly since then. But that is an extreme experience of eating on set.’’
Grant is not the only actor to suffer food hell for their art. Zoey Deutch, 30, threw up on set after scoffing four full pizzas while shooting 2018 rom-com Set It Up.
Leonardo DiCaprio, 50, ended up blowing chunks after eating a mountain of yellowtail sushi while repeatedly filming a scene with Jonah Hill in 2013 comedy smash Wolf Of Wall Street.
And Mark Ruffalo, 57, chundered after eating cashew cheesecake before shooting a near-drowning scene in 2013 magician heist movie Now You See Me.
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