I would like to offer you a two-week holiday, or longer, at our house

14-year-old Richard E. Grant writes to his idol

Richard E. Grant in Cumbria, on the set of the movie 'Withnail & I', 1986. (Photo by Murray Close/Getty Images)

When he was fourteen years old, many years before his big-screen debut in Withnail & I, Richard E. Grant borrowed his father’s typewriter and composed a fan letter to his favourite Hollywood star.