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‘People often don’t feel treated as equals’: Adrien Brody on complexity, comebacks and The Brutalist

Twenty-two years after The Pianist, the actor is again Oscar frontrunner for a post-Holocaust epic. He talks about renovating a castle, unfulfilled yearnings and making his parents happy

Shortly, when he speaks of his childhood in “melting pot” Queens, New York, I mention that his family home in Woodhaven is in walking distance from where Donald Trump grew up. At the Golden Globes earlier this month, comic Nikki Glaser’s opening monologue saluted “two time Holocaust survivor Adrien Brody”. In 2021, while Edgerton was meant to be filming The Brutalist, Brody was in London shooting See How They Run, a fun, faux-Agatha Christie ensemble comedy also starring Saoirse Ronan.

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