Again in 2003, Adrien Brody, on the age of 29, turned — and to today stays — the youngest-ever greatest actor Oscar winner, for his tour de drive efficiency as a Jewish musician residing in Poland in the course of the rise of the Nazis in The Pianist. On Sunday evening, 22 years and a variety of ups and downs later, he was again on high, profitable a greatest actor in a movement image drama Golden Globe for his portrayal of one other Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, on this case a superb architect who then involves America and discovers that the American dream will not be all it’s cracked as much as be, in Brady Corbet’s epic The Brutalist.
On this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, which was recorded on the London West Hollywood lodge, the 51-year-old displays on his odds-defying, curler coaster of a life and profession. He discusses early examples of luck, each nice and horrible; how The Pianist got here alongside, what it demanded of him and the professionals and cons of his star-making evening on the Oscars; why, as lately as 2016, he basically walked away from his performing profession, and what satisfied him to return — on episodes of TV’s Succession and Successful Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, within the movie Blonde and in The Brutalist — and why The Brutalist has such nice private that means to him; plus way more.
