Adrien Brody's performance in The Brutalist is so singular that it's almost impossible to tell which actors he takes inspiration from. So why not ask the man himself? On this week’s bonus episode of Table for Two, the Academy Award-winner (and nominee for this year’s Best Actor Oscar) joins host Bruce Bozzi to discuss his first big purchase upon making it in Hollywood, his favorite band, and his go-to cocktail.
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Episode Transcript
Hey, everybody, it's Bruce. Thanks for pulling up a chair
for another bonus episode of Table for Two. Please excuse
the voice as I have a little laryngitis. But a
couple of weeks ago we published our interview with Adrian Brody.
We had an incredible lunch, and this week we have
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even more to share with you. So ahead of this
Sunday's Oscars, where our guest is nominated for Best Actor
for his role in The Brutalist, I hope you enjoy
this thoughtful and insightful lightning round with Adrian Brody. Okay,
mister Brody, So favorite.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Cocktail, uh, tequila on the rocks? Oh me too.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
First big purchase when you made a chunk?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Oh boy, I didn't want to elaborate on it, but
I got a new car, and and I love cars.
I can't give you one word answers. I love cars.
I grew up building muscle cars and drags, and none
of my parents never owned a new car, and I
never owned a new car. And I bought a car
for my mom and my dad and myself. Wow, so
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it was a big thing in my life.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Okay, favorite band, mob Deep, first concert.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I wish it was mob Deep, I would have. I
don't remember. I know I should remember. I mean I
really don't like mine was Wings. I'll tell you my
first connects. My first favorite band was Kiss and I had,
I Had, and I played. I was Gene Simmons for
Halloween and my mom is the best picture of me
as a little kid, like going with Geene Simmons makeup.
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But I had eight tracks of Kiss and Pink Floyd
okay as a kid.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
That's okay. Actor who has most influenced you?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Only one?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It could be.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Robert de Niro, Marlon Brando, al Pacino, John Case.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
You can feel all of them, and you just you know,
you can feel all of them.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Man crush young Brando. I was gonna say, yeah, I
mean its iconic.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, it's iconic, but anyone who isn't. Yeah. I mean
you got to think about yourself.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
And the advice that keeps giving that was important on you,
or advice you want to give to keep giving.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Well, it's nice and I really appreciate you saying that
people found a degree of kindness in me, and it
all stems from having a degree of empathy, which which
I feel has been very much cultivated through my work
I'm sorry, I can't give you one answer or anything,
but and that all comes back to a state of
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non judgment, a state of putting yourself in someone else's circumstances.
And I've had a vast life, and I've lived many
lives through these characters, and I've traveled the world many
times over. And even my references to all the most
powerful producers in the world last night is I understand
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how hard it is what you're trying to accomplish. And
I appreciate what you've done, not only for yourself, which
is incredibly difficult and challenging and competitive, but what you've
done for this industry. And I've also produced and put
money in a time when I didn't have money in
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a movie to fix the movie. And I've dealt with
the complexities of that side of the world that many
actors don't understand and don't realize how privileged they are
to not have to deal with those things, to just
show up and do their work work. I'm sorry to
digress on that, but it stems it speaks to a
bigger thing of everywhere you look, we're all yearning for
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similar things. We all want a sense of home, we
all want to feel seen and heard. We all want
our families to be safe, we want to succeed on
our own levels, and we want to live more harmoniously.
And the way you can achieve that is through being
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more harmonious in your actions as best as you can
and seeing others with the perspective of how you would
like them to see you and treat you. And even
if they're not capable of doing that, that's not personal
to you, but you are. You're responsible for your actions
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and how you will engage. And that's very important and
very much a part of how I've grown up. Finally,
and that's something I credit my parents for and the many,
you know, beautiful life experiences I've had to give me perspective.
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And I realized that I have quite a unique perspective
because I have this vantage point I've struggled for decades
as an actor, and I also am able to see
how people perceive me and perhaps misperceive qualities about me
from another point of view, and it allows me to
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be very in touch. I'm so not out of touch
that it's wonderful. And I tell you, the big thing
is and my biggest fear was when I was amidst
that whirlwind twenty two years ago, and offers and opportunities
and you name it were being presented to me which
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were never presented to me. I was afraid that I
would lose touch, right, and I in fact moved to
the countryside and bought an old place to fix up
and with a pickup truck and kind of hit away.
And I don't think it was probably the best thing
to do, but I didn't want to succumb entirely to
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everything that was available.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Exactly, I understand, and I think that was the correct decision.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Probably, Yeah, I mean it was the decision, and it's
it's it's and it gets you there. It gets you there.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
So if you've pulled up a chair, thank you so
much for joining us on Table for two.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Adrian, thank you, and let's do this do it? Thank you,
Thank you for pulling up a chair.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
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