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David Cronenberg says Brutalist AI controversy was a ‘campaign against’ the film by rival Oscar nominees
The director was discussing the row over Adrien Brody’s AI-enhanced Hungarian accent, saying ‘we mess with actors’ voices all the time’
David Cronenberg has suggested the AI controversy over Adrien Brody’s Hungarian accent in The Brutalist was an issue manufactured by the campaign of a rival Oscar film. The row originally erupted in January when The Brutalist’s editor Dávid Jancsó said in an interview with Red Shark that his voice was combined with the film’s lead actors Brody and Felicity Jones, using an AI tool to create a more convincing Hungarian accent. It emerged around the same time that a similar AI-created hybrid was used to enhance Emilia Pérez’s Karla Sofía Gascón’s singing voice; it was blended with vocals by Camille, the French pop star who co-wrote the film’s score.
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