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Inside Adrien Brody’s Private World: How ‘The Brutalist’ Pushed Him to the Limit — and Just Might Win Him Another Oscar


"The Brutalist" star Adrien Brody would rather be remembered as a good actor, not a good-looking one.

Should he take home a second best actor Academy Award, he’ll join an exclusive club that includes Fredric March, Spencer Tracy, Marlon Brando, Gary Cooper, Jack Nicholson, Tom Hanks, Anthony Hopkins, Dustin Hoffman and Sean Penn. The first time I sit down with Brody for this profile is all the way back on May 22, 2023, in an Italian restaurant in Cannes, where he is promoting the Wes Anderson film “Asteroid City.” Wearing a bone gray button-down jacket and a sweater, the actor looks ready for the chill of a Budapest winter rather than the relentless Côte d’Azur sun. “A barn that looks like a castle.” Nevertheless, the property was once featured in a 30-page magazine spread in “Hello!”) Brody barely had time to visit his parents in Queens and whisk his girlfriend, Georgina Chapman, to the medieval French village of Èze, where he’s staying with the rest of the “Asteroid City” team.

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