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Brady Corbet and Sean Baker on Why It’s Hard Shooting Movies Like ‘The Brutalist’ and ‘Anora’ in America and Why Obsessing Over Box Office Is Trump Coded
The director compare battle scars from the years spent getting passion projects onto the screen.
The expansive story of a Hungarian architect and his haughty patron required Corbet and team to shoot in the marble quarries of northern Tuscany — where rockslides constantly shift the landscape. For “Anora,” the tale of a hopeful sex worker’s unhinged affair with the son of a Russian oligarch, he found himself “making, borrowing and stealing” whatever he could to get the project across the finish line. This included casting civilians with no prior acting credits in key roles, raiding the diners of Coney Island and shooting guerrilla footage of New Yorkers in their element.
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