First Look: Russell Brand as ARTHUR
Clean shaven, vulnerable. Is Brand just having a bad day on the set, or is this melancholy how he will play the wealthy playboy?
We've barely had anything good to say about the Russell Brand starring remake of Dudley Moore's classic rom-com Arthur but maybe (and I'm saying... just... maybe) - I'm slightly warming to the idea after I enjoyed Get Him To The Greek more than I expected. I'll admit it - Brand keeps surprising me with just how watchable he is on screen and as long as he keeps making my belly laugh and my eyes water, I'll continue to follow him despite his limitations as a leading man. It's the funny comedian/actor syndrome - as long as he makes me laugh and doesn't attempt to Oscar bait, then he's cool by me. Splash News have snapped a first look at Brand during filming on Arthur in New York. Without a beard and in that kind of get-up, he looks more like he is turning up for A Clockwork Orange fancy dress party than leading a major Warner Bros. comedy. It also ages him by about five years and the usually cocky, full of self-confidence Brand - looks dare I say it, vulnerable in these images, without the beard?