Russell Brand Documentary Reveals How Katy Perry Marriage Shaped His New Worldview
Russell Brand explains why his marriage to Katy Perry didn’t work in new documentary, BRAND: A Second Coming. (Associated Press)
The new Russell Brand documentary BRAND: A Second Coming shows the British star rejecting a life of shallow celebrity in favor of a more substantive life cause. As he puts it in the trailer, “I’m an egotist, I’m a f***ing narcissist; but I’m your narcissist.”
One part of the film press is eager report on is Brand’s 14-month marriage to Katy Perry. After seeing the documentary, The Daily Mail reports that this relationship had a profound effect on Brand, who calls the pop star lifestyle “vapid” and “vacuous” in the film.
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It was a visit to Africa for Comic Relief in the spring of 2010 – months before he and Perry were married – that began changing Brand’s values, it seems in contrast to his once beau.
“I’m associated with the very thing I detest: vapid, vacuous, plastic, constructed, mindless celebrity. That’s the very sea we’re swimming in, ‘Oh, who’s he?’ … 'He’s married to Katy Perry,’” The Daily Mail reports him saying in the film.
He also reportedly tells his friend Stephen Merchant of his relationship with Perry, “It’s definitely good I’m with someone I love. But it’s not a resolution to anything spiritual.”
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Former Oasis founder and Brand’s friend Noel Gallagher apparently also admits in the film he didn’t think the couple would last.
Brand is now focusing himself on serious issues such as climate change and global economic inequality. As he says in the film, “What I want is a spiritual revolution and a complete global change of thinking.”
The British comedian and actor has expressed his discomfort with the documentary and even canceled his appearance at its South by Southwest premiere and even tried to block its release at the festival.
Watch the trailer for BRAND: A Second Coming here:
