Adrien Brody on Connecting with His Role in ‘The Brutalist’ at Venezia81: A Personal Journey

with regards to portraying llo looking this is hello um I was saying with regards to portraying Lao to uh firstly it's it's a beautifully written and constructed character on the page um but it is one that I felt immediate uh kinship and understanding for and and that I was Adept to play um uh some of you may know my mother's work my mother is Sylvia plah she's a wonderful photographer she's a New York photographer but she's also a Hungarian immigrant who fled Hungary uh in 1956 during the Hungarian Revolution and was a refugee and immigrated to the United States and much like llo started again lost her home and and um pursued a dream of being an artist and I understand a great deal about the repercussions of that on her life and her work as an artist which I think is a a wonderful parallel with Loo's uh creation and how they've evolved and how postwar psychology influences your work and in a creative Manner and and all other aspects of your life moving forward and um and it's just such a beautifully thoughtful even though it is fiction which feels very real and very real to me and that's so important for for for me to to embody a character and make him real and for a film like this to uh not only represent the past but remind us of the past and how so many things in our present are um we must learn from

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