Forget Sarah Marshall. Who needs Kristen Bell when you can have Russell Brand?

That’s exactly what the producers of 2008 comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall thought when they glimpsed the British blabber-mouth in the film’s stand-out role of Aldous Snow.

The sex god rocker whom Sarah (Bell) rebounds with after dumping long time boyfriend Peter (Jason Segel), Snow is a philosophy-spouting child of the Earth who also happens to like a lot of sex – as well as performing moving/saucy rock ballads on stage.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall was a hit – and those who had seen it knew why. “I think the reasons Aldous Snow resonated, at least with Nick [Stoller, director] and Judd [Apatow, writer-producer], is that in this celebrity-obsessed age, Aldous was an unusual take on celebrity,” muses Brand.

The very same week that Forgetting Sarah Marshall hit screens, Nicholas Stoller and Jason Segel started planning a follow-up. Remembers co-star Jonah Hill: “I was dying to work with Russell again, and I would have done anything Nick asked me to do…”

Alright, then, let’s rock...

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