Russell Brand Get Him to the Greek On Set Roundtable Q&A
Did you have any musical inspirations to help you with this role?Russell Brand: "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."
Like Keith Richards?
Russell Brand: "Keith Richards is actually a very gentle fellow. That self-assuredness that they have...me, I’m not like that. I’m more...I don’t know. They seem very grounded."
Did any of their stories help you with this role?
Russell Brand: "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."
This set is very relaxed. Is that the type of environment you’re used to working in or are you used to being around more chaotic sets?
Russell Brand: "I think I’ve been very fortunate in my brief career in films to work with people that are kind of cool. I think it comes from Judd [Apatow] down that people are very collaborative. I’ve not encountered people that are hard to work with among this group of people. I’ve done Bedtime Stories and the previous film, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, was with Judd as well. I’ve done The Tempest with Julie Taymor and Helen Mirren and that was a different vibe of madness. I’ve never thought, 'This is an obnoxious and unbearable person.'"
Would you like to do another Aldous Snow film and make it a trilogy?
Russell Brand: "I don’t think so. I mean, I don’t know. What else can I have him do?"
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Get Him to the Greek hits theaters on June 4, 2010.
