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How Guy Pearce Explored “Extreme” Power In ‘The Brutalist’: “I Suppose On Some Level It’s The Donald Trump Version”
Guy Pearce explored "extreme" power in 'The Brutalist': "I suppose on some level it’s the Donald Trump version"
Given the number of indelible performances he’s given since breaking out world-wide with only his third big-screen appearance — The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert in 1994 — it’s astonishing that Guy Pearce doesn’t have an awards shelf creaking with the weight of career-affirming statuettes. That could change after Brady Corbet ’s The Brutalist, an epic drama (complete with 15-minute intermission) in which an emigrant Hungarian architect, László Toth ( Adrien Brody), seeks political asylum, and a creative outlet, in post-war America. DEADLINE: Van Buren’s attitude to László changes when he reads about himself in a glowing magazine article — “A Millionaire Amid His Moderns” — and realizes that his work validates him as a man of wealth and taste.
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