When Adrien Brody starred The pianist In 2002, the world of cinema set its sights on him. The war drama directed by Roman Polanskyearned the actor not only numerous awards, but also positioned him in Hollywood and the world as one of the most talented performers of his generation. However, that experience had a very difficult side, as he himself revealed in a recent interview.
In a note with the publication New York Magazine, Brody confessed that composing that character meant he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, and in this regard he explained: “I barely drank water when we started filming. But I went through a physical transformation that was necessary for the narrative. That somehow opened me, spiritually, to a deep understanding of emptiness and hunger, in a way that I had never seen before.”
When he finished filming that film, the actor said that he suffered from “an eating disorder for at least a year,” and not only that, “I was also depressed for a while,” the interpreter added. Although in a more relaxed tone, he considered that the depression could have lasted “his entire life.”
At just 29 years old, Adrien Brody won the Oscar for Best Actor for The pianistand at that time he became the youngest man to be honored with this award. In the coming months, the New Yorker hopes to be able to win a second statuette, if he is nominated in that category for his leading role in The Brutalistan ambitious production that is going very strong ahead of the imminent awards season in Hollywood.
Adrien Brody not only finds his calling in cinema, but also in modeling and even plastic art, since he is also a painter. As he said in an interview with The Guardianpainting was his refuge during the pandemic. He worked on huge canvases spread on the floor of his house, when he had a free moment during the filming of the film. See How They Run (2022), in which he stars with Sam Rockwell, Saorise Ronan and David Oyelowo.
It was also painting where he channeled his need for artistic expression during a time in which he moved away from acting a bit; just before this period of return to a higher profile, in which in addition to working on films directed by Wes Andersonventured into series such as Peaky Blinders y Chapelwaite. Shortly after he also performed in Successionthe hit HBO series, in which he played an investor who has to deal with Logan and Kendall Roy.
Artistic inclinations run in the family: his father, Elliott Brodyis also a painter and his mother, Sylvia Plachy, is a photographer recognized for her work for publications such as The Village Voice. Little Adrien's visits with his mother to the offices of the New York weekly newspaper allowed him to get an inside look at how a newsroom works and see how journalists work.
In The French chroniclea film that revolves around the operation of a newspaper, Brody found a universe that was recognizable to him. And in an interview with THE NATION, He said: “I think in the film there is a love and appreciation for a certain type of journalistic style, writing and approach, and the journeys of the journalists that Wes portrays. My mother is a photographer and, in fact, she worked for The New Yorker. He also did work for many other publications and was part of the staff of The Village Voice for decades. I grew up among many journalists and creative people in the New York newspaper and magazine world. Her work is more of an artist's, although she covered everything from sex clubs to the war in Kuwait. But his work is very artistic. “My father is an accomplished fine artist and I paint too, so I also have a connection to that aspect of storytelling as well.”
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