Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Russell Brand: Open Secret’ On Netflix, Pulling Back The Curtain On The Comedian’s Sexual Predations

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“This is about me saying it’s OK to speak up, be brave enough to speak up,” said one of Brand’s exes and alleged victims, who wasn’t part of the recent trial.

Just eight days after a London court found comedian and actor Russell Brand guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault, sentencing him to 10 1/2 years in prison, this new Netflix documentary looks back on his troubled life with insight from people close to Brand as well as the investigation led by two reporters from The Times and The Sunday Times (which buttressed the 2023 Channel 4 documentary that ultimately prompted authorities to prosecute Brand).

The Gist: Brand, made famous in the States for his roles in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him to the Greek, as well as his brief marriage to Katy Perry, and since the pandemic his conspiratorial videos on conservative video platform Rumble, was even more famous and infamous for longer in his native England.

This film features interviews with his early housemates and girlfriends from before he ever performed stand-up comedy or got his first gig on MTV, combining eyewitness testimony and footage to trace his life and career through his substance abuse addictions to his sex addiction, from MTV to BBC Radio 2, through scandals that only seemed to propel him to new professional heights. We see and hear from people who lived with Brand, who slept with Brand, who claimed they were verbally, emotionally, and physically abused by Brand.

What Movies Will It Remind You Of? This documentary comes from the same company that produced Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story, about another formerly treasured British TV icon who turned out to be a sexual predator with many victims in his wake.

Sex And Skin: The doc opens with a warning about graphic descriptions of sexual violence, and encourages victims or those triggered to visit a Netflix site offering hotline support: https://www.wannatalkaboutit.com/

Our Take: Where this doc goes farther and further than past exposes about Brand is by putting front and center people who saw his behavior firsthand.

There’s his former housemate, Mark Pinheiro (seen in footage from…

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