“It has been a long time,” Adrien Brody mentioned backstage at Sunday’s Golden Globes, reflecting on his profession from his Oscar win for The Pianist in 2003 to his first Golden Globe drama actor win tonight for The Brutalist.
“I’ve had an extended life and profession and lot of peaks and lot of valleys,” he mentioned tonight. “It’s given me perspective, it’s given me nice appreciation for this second as a result of it could go away.”
“I’m very grateful. I’ve had a really blessed profession, but it surely’s nonetheless a problem to seek out work equivalent to this. You possibly can have a triumph in your life once more is therapeutic and rewarding and what it speaks to of my household struggles and the hardships that they confronted which have given me agency footing as an American actor.”
Brody, who performs a post-World Warfare II Hungarian Jewish refugee architect within the U.S. in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, mirrored on how private the movie was to him given how his mom and grandparents fled Hungary in 1936. Within the film, Brody’s architect finds profitable work for an acerbic actual property tycoon performed by Man Pearce. The film stunned tonight with wins for Greatest Image – Drama in addition to for Corbet profitable Greatest Director.
Talking about being a Jewish actor and connecting with the antisemitism that his character faces in The Brutalist, Brody mentioned, “Sadly, there’s an amazing quantity of antisemitism. It’s one thing that this character is fleeing and that persecution, not only for being Jewish, however for his inventive beliefs and his values and to be oppressed and judged and othered. After which come to return with hopes and goals that’s previously and nonetheless face that, for these challenges to nonetheless exist; the truth that they do — it’s intimate to me the roles that I’ve performed and, makes me really feel very grateful to be part of storytelling that speaks to this and lots of different points that the movie offers perception into.”
