Somewhat too nostril for consolation.
A make-up artist engaged on Adrien Brody’s new film “The Brutalist” mistook the Oscar winner’s nostril for a prosthetic.
Brody, 51, shared the hilarious anecdote on “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon,” after the late-night host requested about the usage of prosthetics within the movie, which is nominated for 9 Academy Awards —together with Finest Image and Finest Actor for Brody.
“They did apply a lot of — they had to do a prosthetic procedure,” he instructed Fallon of beauty alterations he underwent to painting fictional Hungarian-Jewish architect László Tóth, who emigrates to the US after surviving the Holocaust.
“It’s funny, everyone’s very busy, it’s a movie with a lot of moving pieces and so I had a new team of people who I had never met,” he continued on Monday. “They were removing this apparatus all over me and this woman was busily working away with a solvent on my nose.”
“She’s just working away, and I said, ‘Are you trying to remove that?’” he continued, gesturing to his nostril.
“And she said, ‘Yes.’ And I said, ‘That doesn’t come off,’” he stated, laughing.
“And then she says, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry.’ And then she goes, ‘This is going in my diary.’”
Cracking up with Fallon, Brody added, “Why not? Now it’s going in my talk show repertoire, there you have it.”
Brody has lengthy been identified for his distinctive profile. In a current interview with New York Journal, the actor confirmed that his nostril was by chance damaged throughout a struggle scene in Spike Lee’s 1999 movie “Summer of Sam,” leaving him with a everlasting dent. He’s damaged his nostril on two different events, per a dialog he had with UK information outlet the Occasions in 2022.
“Even coming through customs in Spain recently with a cap on and mask up to [my eyes], the guy said, ‘Adrien Brody?’” he recounted to The Occasions. “I asked how he knew. He said, ‘Not the nose! The eyes.’”
Brody’s Finest Actor nomination for “The Brutalist” is the second he’s obtained from the Academy over the course of his decadeslong profession.
His first nod landed him the Oscar for his portrayal of real-life Holocaust survivor Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski’s 2002 drama “The Pianist,” turning into the youngest actor ever to take him the prize.
“I was very young then and I’ve gained a lot of perspective through the years. I’ve had a wonderful career but there’s been plenty of peaks and valleys, and I think right now — I was very aware of how remarkable those circumstances were then,” Brody stated of the win.
“I’m more aware now, and how special and rare this moment is, so I have a tremendous amount of appreciation. I’m so grateful for the recognition. It’s a remarkable thing and I’m so grateful for the work.”
