Russell Brand bails on SXSW: documentary about his life too 'painful and sad'
Hours before the world premiere of Brand: A Second Coming, the Russell Brand documentary that’s headlining South by Southwest’s first night, Brand himself announced that he won’t be in attendance. In a statement on his official website, the comedian stated that the film, while likely good, felt “oddly intrusive and melancholy.”
“You’d think a narcissist would like nothing more than talking about themselves and their “rags to riches”, “hard luck” story,” he writes, “but actually, it felt like, to me, my life was hard enough the first time round and going through it again was painful and sad.”
“You’d think a narcissist would like nothing more than talking about themselves.”
Brand, which took seven years to finally complete, is the…
Source:: The Verge
