r/movies • u/Moonskaraos • 22h ago

News Comedian Russell Brand charged with rape

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0457d02e9go
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u/BonJovicus 21h ago

Russell Brand has always been one of those dudes that you knew was playing himself. 

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u/PotOPrawns 21h ago

If anything they probably had to tone his characters down in films otherwise he's be too comfortable playing himself and end up actually doing some weird shit not acting some weird shit while filming. 

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u/Guildenpants 13h ago

They actually radically changed who Aldus Snow was after casting Brand. He was originally a writer IIRC and not a huge douche.

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u/CarpetMalaria 18h ago

I’ve heard Reddit talk about this Sarah Marshal movie all the time. I felt super creeped out by Russel Brand’s character the whole time and thought the same exact thing “damn is this guy just playing himself?”