Adrien Brody says he has PTSD from engaged on the 2002 Holocaust drama “The Pianist,” owing to the dramatic weight reduction he undertook for the movie.
The star, who received a Finest Actor Oscar for his efficiency as Holocaust survivor Władysław Szpilman within the Roman Polanski film, spoke in regards to the expertise making the biopic throughout a brand new interview with New York Journal.
Brody, 51, stated he went on a near-starvation eating regimen so he may lose 30 kilos for the position. When it lastly got here time to step onto set for the primary time, the strict routine left him weighing solely 129 kilos.
The star “was barely drinking water by the time they started filming,” in keeping with the profile.
“That was a physical transformation that was necessary for storytelling,” Brody stated, wanting again. “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.”
Requested if he has PTSD from making the movie, the actor replied, “I do, yeah.”
“I definitely had an eating disorder for at least a year,” he shared. “And then I was depressed for a year, if not a lifetime. I’m kidding, I’m kidding.”
Brody has gone to excessive lengths performing in different movies all through his profession.
Filming 2005’s “The Jacket,” a science-fiction thriller that follows a Gulf Conflict veteran who’s wrongly despatched to a psychological establishment, he informed director John Maybury to go away him in a straitjacket his character wears so he may “get a feel for it,” per New York Journal.
The outlet additionally reported that Brody was left with a everlasting dent in his nostril after somebody punched him and broke his nostril whereas filming “Summer of Sam.”
And within the film “Oxygen,” the actor opted to put on precise metallic braces slightly than prosthetic ones to play a serial killer with braces.
“I didn’t know how fucking painful that was until they stuck in pliers and ripped them off my teeth at the end,” Brody defined.
He additionally ate ants and worms through the making of “Wrecked,” since his character within the movie wakes up alone within the forest.
The youngest particular person to ever take residence the Finest Actor Oscar (he was simply 29 when he received for “The Pianist), Brody is within the operating for the coveted trophy once more this 12 months.
His efficiency in Brady Corbet’s movie “The Brutalist” — a couple of Hungarian-born Jewish architect who survives the Holocaust and emigrates to the US — has earned him the New York Movie Critics Circle’s Finest Actor award.
The film is now enjoying in choose theaters.
