Adrien Brody on THE BRUTALIST, Girlfriend Georgina Chapman, and More for VARIETY Magazine

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In a new cover story from VARIETY, Oscar-nominated actor Adrien Brody speaks with Executive Editor Film & Media Tatiana Siegel about “The Brutalist,” girlfriend Georgina Chapman, and being passed over for major roles despite his Best Actor Oscar win in 2003. He also discusses how his Oscar win is inextricably linked to Roman Polanski, kissing Halle Berry at the Oscars, working with Tupac Shakur, President Trump’s immigration policies, and more. Handouts, highlights, and guidelines for image use below.

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Brody on the grueling 34-day shoot for “The Brutalist”: “There was just no room for error. And it’s so hard to make magic when you’re up against it all the time, and your filmmaker’s up against it all the time. It just adds so much pressure. Just debilitatingly exhausting. It’s just really excruciating, but worth the sacrifice.”

On his his girlfriend, Marchesa fashion designer Georgina Chapman: “We got photographed leaving the plane here. We get photographed leaving the hotel. We get photographed every minute…We have a number of pets. My girlfriend has a whole menagerie of animals. We have four cats and a dog and donkeys and miniature horses, and we have a whole lot of animals around here. We did have a rat for a while that didn’t make it. It was a very sweet one…I greatly appreciate having a partner with a similar sensibility and understanding of the creative process, of creative yearnings, and not in the same field. And so there’s a [shared] perspective that’s very intuitive. It’s been lovely to have a friend and a confidant, and someone with good instincts.”

On being passed over for major roles throughout his career, even after nabbing the best actor Oscar in 2003 at the age of 29 for “The Pianist”: “That’s par for the course. I definitely can admit I’m not the typical-looking person, so that will either work in your favor sometimes and often not work in your favor.”

On the fact that winning an Oscar for “The Pianist” is linked to director Roman Polanski: “I’m grateful to have made a movie that speaks to the immense tragedy of a time in history. And for it to be told with very little sentimentality, as almost a visual reference of a time that cannot be forgotten and a pervasive undercurrent that cannot be ignored.”

On kissing Halle Berry on the Academy stage after she presented his best actor trophy: “We live in a very conscious time, which is a wonderful thing. And nothing that I ever do or have done or would’ve done is ever done with the intention of making anyone feel bad.”

On working with Tupac Shakur and Mickey Rourke in the 1996 crime thriller “Bullet”: “Working with ’Pac was amazing. He was incredibly focused. We hung out a lot when we did the movie. We spent a lot of time together, and he became quite close with Mickey. And Mickey really took me under his wing at that time…He had a big rap career, but he was not ‘Tupac’ yet. He didn’t even have ‘Thug Life’ tattooed on his chest yet. We were writing graffiti together, and he was writing ‘Thug Life.’ I didn’t know what he was referencing.”

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