Adrien Brody is opening up concerning the lengths he went to for his Oscar-winning efficiency in Roman Polanski’s 2002 movie The Pianist.
Brody portrayed Holocaust survivor Władysław Szpilman within the biographical movie. For the function, Brody took on a near-starvation food regimen and misplaced 30 lbs., dropping his weight to 129 lbs. The actor was stated to be “barely consuming water” after they began filming the film, which was shot in reverse, displaying Szpilman at his most depleted.
“That was a bodily transformation that was crucial for storytelling,” Brody instructed New York Journal’s Vulture. “However then that sort of opened me up, spiritually, to a depth of understanding of vacancy and starvation in a approach that I didn’t know, ever.”
His transformation for the function left lasting results like insomnia and panic assaults, agreeing that he suffered from PTSD from the entire expertise.
“I positively had an consuming dysfunction for at the least a 12 months. After which I used to be depressed for a 12 months, if not a lifetime. I’m kidding, I’m kidding,” he added.
The Methodology actor has been put in distinctive conditions whereas portraying totally different roles. When he filmed The Jacket, the actor requested the director to go away him in a straitjacket “so he might get a really feel for it.” The publication additionally notes that when Brody filmed Summer time of Sam, “somebody by accident punched him within the face” which gave “him a everlasting dent.”
When he filmed Oxygen, portraying a serial killer with braces, he opted out of getting prosthetic braces, including, “I didn’t understand how fucking painful that was till they caught in pliers and ripped them off my enamel on the finish.”
