Marlon Brando? This Oscar-winning actor doesn’t particularly like it: “It’s really funny to be turned into mythology.”

Two Oscars for Best Actor for On the Quays and The Godfather, an acting award at Cannes for Viva Zapata! And a filmography decorated with such monuments as A Streetcar Named Desire, Apocalypse Now and Ball of the Damned… Marlon Brando, who died in 2004 at the age of 80, is without the slightest doubt among the greatest legends of Hollywood.

In addition to the controversies that hindered his career (in particular, filming Last Tango in Paris, where he helped organize the rape scene of Bernardo Bertolucci without warning his partner Maria Schneider), the American actor is often mentioned among the monsters. The saint of cinema.

It is an atypical opinion

But it turns out that his work and his qualities as an actor are not mutually exclusive, as another actor recently demonstrated: Austrian Christoph Waltz, best known for his roles in Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained by Quentin Tarantino.

Indeed, during the discussion for a magazine interview Along with Caleb Landry Jones (in Luc Besson’s Dogman last year), Waltz made a strong and rather unusual take on Brando and the aura around him:

“It’s Brando’s 100th Birthday.”He first remembered that the actor was born on April 3, 1924.

“He was a jerk.”

“I read two articles And I found both really boring. As for this post-mortem purgatory…the fact that it’s mythologized is really funny because it was an act.”

“At first it was fantastic. No one had ever seen anything like it.”Christoph Waltz admitted, before clarifying a little later in the interview that, according to him, his career as an actor was not a personal merit:

“I don’t believe in the concept of mythology over an actor’s career. It’s bullshit.”

What do you think of Christoph Waltz’s statements?

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