The superior 2008 rom com put Brand’s distinctive talent to good use
, a schlocky cop show starring his girlfriend, Sarah Marshall . Sarah dumps Peter, because Peter is stuck in a rut, and so begins Peter’s mourning period, punctuated by unhelpful advice from mates and idiosyncratic sex. Eventually, he winds up in Hawaii, at a luxury hotel where receptionists look like Mila Kunis and Sarah is holidaying with her new love interest .
Such was the cultural landscape in 2008 – we earnestly used the term “metrosexual” – that a romantic comedyworked. Directed by Nicholas Stoller, the film is breezy as a Hawaiian afternoon, as lived-in as a pair of sand-encrusted flip-flops. Audiences agreed: made with a budget of $30 million, it raked in $105 million worldwide. It’s the type of film you have to watch if it’s on, because the next scene is really great, and so is the one after that, and actually, the ending is pretty sweet, too.
Snow works because he is ever so slightly smarter than a stereotype, just a little sharper than your average celebrity idiot. After the rocker twigs, mid-sex, that Sarah is still hung up on Peter, he claims, in what may be his most memorable line, that their romantic break was akin to a “little holiday with Hitler”.On Brand’s 2006 stand-up tour, Shame, he tells a joke about getting a blowjob.
In 2008, Brand was not in Hollywood movies. Even Segel, who wrote the script, basing it on real break-ups, was not thinking of the comedian at the time. Instead, he wrote the character with his close friend Charlie Hunnam in mind.
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