He’s the star of the new Arthur reboot.
Husband of Katy Perry.
Recovering drug-and-sex addict .
His name is Russell Brand, and he is the comic genius of our time.
Russell is currently featured in Details magazine, in which he dishes about marriage, star status, and addiction.
What is it really like when you combine a wild-haired British movie star with a world-famous pop star? Russell describes his marriage to Katy Perry “at once the most mundane and spectacular thing in the world.” The dazzling duo together definitely brings fireworks to Pop culture, but who wears the pants in the relationship? Russell confesses, “There are a lot of areas where I’ve simply relinquished decision-making. It really does make my mates laugh, though.”
I’ve always wondered what Russell is like in real life. He’s so goofy… who can really take him seriously? But now the media definitely has persuaded me that his star status is equivalent to that of a 1980s heavy metal lead guitarist whom all the ladies love. But what does Russell have to say about his tabloid-fueled rocker-sex-god persona?
“Well, it seems obvious that to turn myself into a character—incredibly theatrical and rock-and-roll and languid and sexualized—was to emphasize areas where I was confident, to draw the eye from the obvious deficit of a man only just getting over being a junkie. I’ve very confident in the physical manifestation of a rocker. And there are aphorisms I still deem tight: the carnal self is the true self. In that barbaric, marauding period of promiscuity, there was a type of Aleister Crowley ‘Do what thou wilt’ as the sum of the law. That voice you use when you come? I was using it to perform. Not some distant, attic-dwelling emotion brought out occasionally, like a front room you never use except when the vicar visits. I was in there fucking all the time.”
And what’s a rocker-sex-god without sex and drugs? Brand was too attached to both, but he figured out how to make his life better and move onward and up. And he explains to fans how to help yourself when you get addicted: “The only way to cope is with a program. If you stop doing recovery, even eating too much chocolate, something will flare up, and I know where that leads, because I’ve been there before. To me, gravity is heroin, and then death.”
Wow. Russell always has me laughing, but he’s definitely a daring intellect with a rock ‘n’ roll flare. Fascinating.
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Posted Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 at 12:12pm
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