Russell Brand’s ‘drug addict life’ on screen

LONDON - British actor Russell Brand plays a heroin addict in his new movie Get Him To The Greek and says there are “direct references to his own life in the film”.

“Because the character is, you know, a heroin addict, and I’m a recovering heroin addict… a really good friend of mine who used to make um, heroin for me, and he didn’t ever want to, which is not nice, to buy heroin, and there’s like scenes in this where I force someone - a reference from my own life, femalefirst.co.uk quoted him as saying.

“My encounter during a threesome…is being used in this. So yeah, there are direct references to my own life in this film. Flatteringly.”

As many of his own experiences feature in the movie, Russell, who is engaged to Katy Perry, says it has made him rethink plans for a big screen version of his autobiography My Booky Wook.

“Nick Stoller’s (writer Nicholas Stoller) sort of stolen all the best bits. If they were to make a movie of my life now, it would be a drab, Warholian, sort of single-shot of me, sobbing in the basin. Which I’m keen to make. So I don’t know if we’ll do that anymore,” he said.