Russel Brand was interviewed about his upcoming role as an out-of-control Rockstar.
Brand, being Recovering Addict, talked about his experiences on the set .
Question: Russell, there are so many elements in this movie that obviously mirror your own life. Was it challenging for you doing this in a sense that you know you’ve got the drugs and everything, and there’s the idea that you might relapse?
Brand: No. I didn’t think I would relapse. It was interesting, actually, the props person who gave me pretend cocaine to take in one scene which I don’t think was in the movie was himself 21 years clean. And I go, “what is this?” and it looked like cocaine and I had to snort it right up my hooter and he goes “this is organic matter.” That’s something that you read on a Nestle label. What is organic matter? Oh nothing. It just killed some kids. What? Yeah, so to answer your question, I’m in like a daily program of recovery and everything so one day at a time I’m alright. But doing them things it’s more the emotional stuff when you get all like angry or shout at people, but if your body don’t know that you’re not serious; apparently you can tell your brain any old information. It would just respond to it. If you just keep telling your brain that’s why that power of positive thinking which some people say is mumbo-jumbo and perhaps they’re correct, but apparently if you just fill your head with positive, it’ll all be alright.
To read the whole interview, click here.
Get Him To The Greek opens on 4 June 2010.
