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Adrien Brody and Tilda Swinton Get Existential, From ‘The Brutalist’ Suffering to Growing Old and ‘Thinking About Mortality Now’
"The Brutalist" star "Adrian Brody" and "The Room Next Door" actor Tilda Swinton confront life and death during Variety's "Actors on Actors" series.
In “The Brutalist,” Brady Corbet’s ambitious “great man” tale, Brody’s László Tóth, an architect and an immigrant to the U.S. from Hungary in the years after the Holocaust, seeks to make a structure that will express his worldview and define his legacy. And in “The Room Next Door,” Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature, Swinton’s Martha Hunt, a terminally ill former war correspondent, contemplates suicide. My mother is a Hungarian immigrant; she fled Budapest in 1956 with her parents, my grandparents, and I witnessed how hard it was for them in that journey, and how they were outsiders and foreign and how language and accents prevented assimilation in a way.
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