Richard E. Grant Lends Legendary Voice to WaterAid’s Powerful 'Water Means Life' Film

Oscar-nominated actor Richard E. Grant is supporting the Water Means Life appeal with WaterAid this winter, lending his distinctive voice to the international charity’s powerful and disruptive appeal film by acclaimed director Jack Weatherley, in collaboration with Omni Productions. A smart and subtle subversion, the spot adopts an unapologetically self-aware take on the classic charity ad format.

The Can You Ever Forgive Me? star, who is currently promoting his heartfelt memoir A Pocketful of Happiness, highlighted the importance of WaterAid’s appeal in ensuring everyone is given the right to clean water. Speaking about the devastating realities of not having access to clean water, Richard said:  “Millions of people around the world have no choice but to visit and work in healthcare facilities with no clean water, no ability for equipment to be cleaned safely and no access to working toilets. It is shocking and needs urgent action to bring change. Clinics should be a safe space, and not a place where hardworking and committed doctors, nurses and cleaners are faced with the reality that without clean water their every effort to heal risks bringing harm. That is why I am supporting WaterAid’s appeal, because Water Means Life and life is precious.” 

The campaign aims to raise £2.5 million during its run from November 2022 to February 2023. Funds raised will provide life-saving clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene to health centres in Mozambique and around the world. Half of the healthcare facilities in the world’s least developed countries lack basic water services. 857 million people around the world have no water at their health centre.