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Awards Voters: Don’t Forget About Felicity Jones and Her Steely Turn in Brady Corbet’s ‘The Brutalist’
Awards season voters: Don’t forget about Felicity Jones and her steely and strong work in ‘The Brutalist’
When Felicity Jones hits the screen in “ The Brutalist,” it’s like a bucket of cold water dashed on the pretensions of the characters we’ve already spent some 90 minutes with, learning about their struggles, dreams, histories. Erzsébet (Jones) is smart, highly educated and most important, skeptical, in contrast to her husband, László Toth (Adrien Brody), an architect of soaring artistic and uncompromising vision. She scored an Oscar nomination for “Theory of Everything,” and should be in the conversation for “Brutalist,” as the embodiment of forward-looking, steely resolve that never sinks into turgid melodrama or caricature of the “woman behind the artist.” Jones has said of the character that she thought there was something “otherworldly” about Erzsébet, finding that “otherness” incredibly “engaging.”
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