Guy Ritchie says he based one of the characters from his new film Rock'N'Rolla on Pete Doherty.

Guy Ritchie based one of the characters from his new film Rock'N'Rolla on Pete Doherty

'At the time I was writing it, Pete Doherty was everywhere ... It's either genius marketing or a happy - or unhappy - accident ...

'It's creative self-destruction in the sense that he's doing it creatively ... I think what we all like is someone who fell and then stood up again. And that's probably the story with Pete Doherty.'

'There seems to be an implication that people want to see him jump. But at the same time there's a desire to see the likes of him being reborn ... you get lost in the sugar of drugs. I guess that's why people take drugs, to get lost in the sugar of it. But sugar kills.'

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