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In The Brutalist, the actor interprets László Tóth,

a Hungarian–Jewish architect who, upon surviving the

Buchenwald concentration camp, emigrates to

the United States where, after numerous struggles,

he works for an American billionaire to make a

building in which he expresses all of his trauma.

in Shyamalan’s The Village to a lead role in Dario Argento’s worst Now you see it, now you don’t: the basics of prestige. It comes to
movie ever: Giallo. He starred in ultra-commercial blockbusters no surprise that other than his Academy Awards, Adrien Brody
such as King Kong by Peter Jackson and Predators by Nimród Antal, proved his talent the most in roles that have allowed him to show
and never disdained Chinese film and its rich remuneration, his histrionic and even clownish side, yet always combined with
working with authors like Feng Xiaogang or shooters such as exceptional emotional power. He worked with Wes Anderson, who
Daniel Lee. welcomed him to his family of actors in The Darjeeling Limited at
In short, upon having shown all he had to show to the film first, before becoming a regular in subsequent feature films: The
critics in the world of socially-conscious cinema with his naturally Grand Budapest Hotel (in which he plays a phenomenal villain), The
painful performance in The Pianist, he moved from set to set French Dispatch, and Asteroid City. Lest we forget, his extraordinary
seeking fun and exploring the different and perhaps contradictory display in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris: let alone the awards, it is
faces of the actor’s profession, with a poorly hidden intention of safe to say that the exhilarating Salvador Dalí who Brody plays for a
surprising his audience. Perhaps he remembered when, before handful of minutes is worth as much – in terms of technical ability –
his acting career, he delighted his classmates with magic shows. as his celebrated Oscar-winning roles.

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