The Daily Mail (Mail On Sunday: Night And Day Magazine) – Sunday 26th September, 2004

“Richard E Grant has returned to his roots for his directorial debut. The gangly thespian recently wrapped shooting on ‘Wah-Wah’ in his native Swaziland.

Set at the dog-end of the colonial rule in the late sixties, ‘Wah-Wah’ tells the story of a dysfunctional white family, whose gradual disintegration mirrors the end of British rule.

Grant describes the film, out next year, as a “coming-of-age story, set at the end of an age.”

The film promises to be a star-studded affair – all the British greats are here. Julie Walters plays a gin-soaked lush, and Miranda Richardson and Emily Watson are the women vying for the affections of teenage Ralph, played by Nicholas Hoult, the young star of ‘About A Boy’. Irishman Gabriel Byrne plays the young man’s alcoholic father.

The story is told through Ralph’s eyes as his parents’ relationship falls apart and he practices for a stage production of ‘Camelot’.”