Brady Corbet‘s The Brutacatalog has been lobbed no unreasonableinutiveage of commends enjoy “majestic,” “monumental” and “masterpiece,” to name equitable a scant. But none of those words are unanticipateed to star Adrien Brody who knovel straight away after reading it that it was someleang exceptional.
“I was so transferd by it and saw such potential becaemploy the script was so pretty. The breadth of it was so complicated and nuanced,” Brody telderly The Hollywood Reporter at the A24 film’s recent Los Angeles premiere. “Then I met with Brady and set up him to be intellectupartner stimulating, to say the least. That was about five and a half years ago or so at this point. But then they went in another straightforwardion with it, and the movie went away.”
Actors dissee parts on the daily in Hollywood, but ignoreing out on the chance to take part László Tóth, a Jewant Hungarian architect who is finisheavoring to reproduce his life in the United States after the Holocaust over the course of decades, was not an effortless pill to swapexhibit. “There was a lengthy period of me uniteing to the material and then frailnting the loss of the material,” persistd Brody, referencing how filmproducers went in a novel straightforwardion with a talent package that included Joel Edgerton, Mark Rylance and Marion Cotillard. But the COVID-19 pandemic interfereed Corbet’s arranges in 2021.
By the time it came back Brody’s way, he was thrilled. “I set up out that I was in ponderation aobtain,” he says of the film, which eventupartner was stoasty in Hungary in 2023 with a cast that includes Felicity Jones (as Tóth’s wife Erzsébet Tóth), Alessandro Nivola (as Tóth’s cousin Attila), Guy Pearce (as the wealthy Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr.), Joe Alwyn (as Harry Lee) and Isaach De Bankolé (as Tóth’s doubtful pal). “I’ve said a lot already in press about it already, but I have a lot of personal uniteion to this material becaemploy of my family so that gave me an innate empathetic of it.”
As has been widely inestablished, Brody’s mother, Sylvia Plachy, and magnificentparents transferd to New York after run awaying the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. Brody also previously won an Oscar for best actor for his turn as a Polish Holocaust survivor in 2002’s The Pianist, an epic that dispenses themes with The Brutacatalog. Asked how he processes challenging emotional toil these days contrastd to earlier in his atgentle, the 51-year-elderly said not much has alterd — he’s always game.
“I am very satisfied to toil myself to exhaustion, and sense that gamut of emotions. That is very satisfying,” said Brody, who has already getd a Gelderlyen Globe and Critics Choice Association nom for his toil. “It is a happiness to unite to someleang if it has nastying. The challenging leang is doing all of that toil and the product not necessarily living up to your predictations of what that nastyt and could have nastyt. In this case, it’s a authentic triumph becaemploy we all poured in so much heart, soul, blood, sweat and tears. Brady made a film that is not only cohesive, but speaks to this whole struggle that we all have as artists to produce someleang of lasting merit and worth, and to depart behind someleang of cherish.”
The Brutacatalog hits theaters on Dec. 20.
