Adrien Brody: “The brutalist dialogs of course with the pianist”

Meeting with the actor, who weaves links between his two biggest roles, the one who earned him an Oscar in 2003 and the one who could assert a new one in March.

“I often hear these days that The brutalist has been my most consistent work since The pianistbut I don’t know if that says something about my career, because these films, in reality, would be organ points in the course of any actor, right? No one can chain masterpieces in a metronomic way over a period of twenty years-even the big actors who have access to the best projects and the best filmmakers do not succeed. I tend to think that I have delivered interpretations inspired over the past two decades, but I also know that the level of excellence of these two films, as well as the space they leave to the actors, are rare. “

“The project The brutalist It took years to come up. It was a question that I did it five years ago, then there was the covid, other complications, the film moved away from me, I ended up mourning it. However, I knew that I was made for this role. There is a very strong intimate dimension that plays there, because we have turned to Budapest, the city of my mother (Photographer Sylvia Plachy – Editor’s note), that she and her parents had to flee in 1956. The memory of immigration was very present in my education as a kid from Queens, in New York. And my mother sometimes translated into her art this experience of uprooting, which is quite close, thematically, of the journey of Laszlo Toth in The brutalist. “

Our criticism of The Brutalist

“At the time, interpret Władysław Szpilman in The pianist had given me an immense feeling of responsibility, vis-à-vis him but also of all the disappeared people during this tragic period. This feeling has been anchored in an indelible way in me and he manifested himself again with great force when it was necessary to interpret Laszlo, to give weight and context to his past, to what he leaves behind when he Begin this trip to the land of the American dream and disillusions. The films are very different, but they dialogue, of course, one starting in a certain way where the other ends. “

The brutalistfrom Brady Corbet, with Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce … Currently at the cinema.