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 position, Brody took on a near-starvation eating regimen and misplaced 30 lbs., dropping his weight to 129 lbs. The actor was stated to be “barely drinking water” after they began filming the film, which was shot in reverse, exhibiting Szpilman at his most depleted.
“That was a physical transformation that was necessary for storytelling,” Brody advised New York Magazine’s Vulture. “But then that kind of opened me up, spiritually, to a depth of understanding of emptiness and hunger in a way that I didn’t know, ever.”
His transformation for the position left lasting results like insomnia and panic assaults, agreeing that he suffered from PTSD from the entire expertise.
“I definitely had an eating disorder for at least a year. And then I was depressed for a year, if not a lifetime. I’m kidding, I’m kidding,” he added.
The Method actor has been put in distinctive conditions whereas portraying completely different roles. When he filmed The Jacket, the actor requested the director to go away him in a straitjacket “so he could get a feel for it.” The publication additionally notes that when Brody filmed Summer of Sam, “someone accidentally punched him in the face” which gave “him a permanent dent.”
When he filmed Oxygen, portraying a serial killer with braces, he opted out of getting prosthetic braces, including, “I didn’t know how fucking painful that was until they stuck in pliers and ripped them off my teeth at the end.”