Bructalist Cinemao: Adrien Brody says he has lost roles for ‘atypical beauty’

Strong candidate for Oscar of Best actor In 2025, Adrien Brody premiered in Brazilian theaters with The brutalist This Thursday, 20.

In the feature – which competes in ten categories in the Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciencesincluding also Best Movie and Best direction -, the actor plays the visionary architect LUASZLÓ TOTH. With the wife, Erzsébet (Felicity Jones), he escapes from Europe devastated by war in 1947 to start over and help shape modern America. However, the arrival of an enigmatic client radically changes the course of his lives.

Adrien Brody’s beauty

Reflecting on your career in cinema, Adrien Brody stated that it had an unexpected help to get the role in The brutalist: The appearance, which the actor himself defines as atypical. On the other hand, he said that, just as beauty worked as a differential to interpret LUASZLÓ TOTHits somewhat outside the standard characteristics have disturbed him at other times.

I had to prove that the protagonist can be unusual, unique and not typically beautiful. [Perder papéis por causa da aparência] It’s normal. I can definitely admit that I am not a typical beauty person, so this will sometimes work in your favor and will often work against it, ”he confessed Brody the Variety.

At least the reflection comes with a consolation:

I prefer much more to be known as a great actor than as a great appearance actor, “he says.

Defines its own appearance as atypical, Adrien Brody It cannot be called ugly, much less monotonous. The evaluation was reinforced by the friend and also actress, Scarlett Johansson.

Adrien There is a face that is from another era. He has so much pathos on his face. It is a face made for a close. So expressive eyes – and some of its characteristics are so exaggerated and yet delicate, ”she said.

Praised by the “magnetic” acting, which attracts the audience’s attention tirelessly during the more than three hours of the film, Brody is the main candidate for Oscar. In case of victory, he will repeat the 2002 feat, when he won the statuette for the role in The Pianist. In this year’s edition, it has as its opponents names like Timothée Chalamet put A complete unknown and Ralph Fiennes put Conclave.

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