Russell Brand says his new film role is inspired by Morrissey etc

[Kewpie]

http://www.nme.com/news/russell-brand/50660

Russell Brand has said his latest film role has been inspired by the likes of Liam and Noel Gallagher, Mick Jagger, David Bowie and Morrissey.

The comic is currently filming for Get Him To The Greek, which sees him reprise his character Aldous Snow from 2008 film Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

In the new film, Snow fronts a band called Infant Sorrow, and when he was asked whether any musicians had inspired the role, he replied: "Lots. Jagger, Keith Richards, Bowie, Morrissey, Noel Gallagher, Liam Gallagher. I'm friendly with some musicians so I'm able to watch them. They're very different from comedians. They're rude - at the least the ones I know. They're so self-assured."

Brand told Comingsoon.net: "I didn't ransack the biography of my musical chums. I felt that would sort of be like grave robbing. I did lots of characteristics and traits from some musicians I know like Morrissey or Noel Gallagher for example."

In February, director Nick Stoller told Hitfix that Carl Barat has written songs for the project, which are likely to be sung by Brand fronting the fictional Infant Sorrow. Jarvis Cocker has also contributed three songs.

P. Diddy, Metallica's Lars Ulrich, Christina Aguilera and Brand's girlfriend Katy Perry all appear in the film.

 

[Worm]

Well...wait. Didn't Aldus Snow sleep with a woman?

 

[Kewpie]

Well...wait. Didn't Aldus Snow sleep with a woman?

Ahaha, Russell would say he made some effort to play Aldus as witty as Morrissey (but possibly failed to convince us).

 

[Worm]

Ahaha, Russell would say he made some effort to play Aldus as witty as Morrissey (but possibly failed to convince us).

"Yeah, I was going to listen to your demo CD, but then I decided I'd just, you know, go on living my life instead".

I can easily see Morrissey saying that to a fan.

 

[georgejallen]

hahaha. That is a good Morrissey line (I know it wasn't really)

 

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...Who's playing Julia ???

 

[Anaesthesine]

Seems to me that Russell is always inspired by Morrissey.

Which is a fine thing in my book.

 

[Dimstar]

Also references Moz in Rolling Stone here http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/;kw=[13193,132542]?RS_show_page=0


"The reason I love Morrissey is because he's the beautification of nerdy incompetence. "If I don't leave my room what will people say? What will they think of me?" Morrissey became the apotheosis of that, bursting out of that bedroom a hero."

Was there a moment in your career where you just said, "f*** it, I'm going to go with this over-the-top persona''?

"To be honest, we have to return to the Morrissey point of earlier. There's a message I'd like to convey to misfit kids everywhere: There comes a point where not fitting in and being odd and peculiar suddenly turns to your advantage. The whole burden of it is almost mythological, when you are saying, "Oh, I just want to be like everyone else, I just want everyone to like me, I just want to be normal." But then, in time, your curse becomes your blessing. To quote a movie: It's a matter of releasing the kraken! Don't conceal the kraken! It's your greatest weapon."

 

[Worm]

Also references Moz in Rolling Stone here http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/;kw=[13193,132542]?RS_show_page=0


"The reason I love Morrissey is because he's the beautification of nerdy incompetence. "If I don't leave my room what will people say? What will they think of me?" Morrissey became the apotheosis of that, bursting out of that bedroom a hero."

Was there a moment in your career where you just said, "f*** it, I'm going to go with this over-the-top persona''?

"To be honest, we have to return to the Morrissey point of earlier. There's a message I'd like to convey to misfit kids everywhere: There comes a point where not fitting in and being odd and peculiar suddenly turns to your advantage. The whole burden of it is almost mythological, when you are saying, "Oh, I just want to be like everyone else, I just want everyone to like me, I just want to be normal." But then, in time, your curse becomes your blessing. To quote a movie: It's a matter of releasing the kraken! Don't conceal the kraken! It's your greatest weapon."

Russell revealed more than he knew. It is mythological. Which is why when most kids "release their kraken" they're just conforming to a myth.

 

[Dave]

Who's Russell Brand?

 

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

Russell revealed more than he knew. It is mythological. Which is why when most kids "release their kraken" they're just conforming to a myth.

I'm very busy trying to teach my two boys to keep their "kraken" under wraps. It's a delicate balance, teaching modesty. Too much, and they end up sexually repressed; too little, and you're visiting them in the federal pen.

Or they just end up as cartoonists.

 

[Worm]

I'm very busy trying to teach my two boys to keep their "kraken" under wraps. It's a delicate balance, teaching modesty. Too much, and they end up sexually repressed; too little, and you're visiting them in the federal pen.

Or they just end up as cartoonists.

Your mistake is trying to teach them at all. Instead, carefully arrange an easter egg hunt, where the easter eggs are little clues about what they should do. Let them learn by a tightly-choreographed series of "accidents". All red-blooded males learn about themselves this way. It's the preferred process. If I were you I'd scoop up and lock away all Morrissey-related material and leave lots of Russell Brand interviews lying around.

 

[billy scissors]

Also references Moz in Rolling Stone here http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/;kw=[13193,132542]?RS_show_page=0


"The reason I love Morrissey is because he's the beautification of nerdy incompetence. "If I don't leave my room what will people say? What will they think of me?" Morrissey became the apotheosis of that, bursting out of that bedroom a hero."

Was there a moment in your career where you just said, "f*** it, I'm going to go with this over-the-top persona''?

"To be honest, we have to return to the Morrissey point of earlier. There's a message I'd like to convey to misfit kids everywhere: There comes a point where not fitting in and being odd and peculiar suddenly turns to your advantage. The whole burden of it is almost mythological, when you are saying, "Oh, I just want to be like everyone else, I just want everyone to like me, I just want to be normal." But then, in time, your curse becomes your blessing. To quote a movie: It's a matter of releasing the kraken! Don't conceal the kraken! It's your greatest weapon."

I never called it my "kraken"

 

[GlasgowChivas]

 

[This charming man.]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[Je Suis Julie]