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‘The Lesson’ Star Richard E. Grant Compares the Literary Drama to Hitchcock’s ‘Rebecca’

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TheWrap: You play a famous writer who’s quite mercurial and manipulative. How would you describe him?Richard E.

Grant: Self-entitled old literary lion who is facing writer’s block.What did you think of the character when you first got the script?Anybody who is on a sort of self-appointed high pedestal and then comes crashing down, that is interesting to play, and even more delicious to witness.

Everybody wants their justice and comeuppance in life.At one point Bertie says of his father “not caring is worse than cruelty.” And he apparently bullied his late son Felix into committing suicide.Absolutely.

He fails every time. And he knows that. That’s what finally makes him human. That’s his Achilles’ heel. You’re dealing with ego and human frailty, that lethal combination.There are so many undercurrents going on when Liam, the tutor, gets to the house.

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