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How Guy Pearce Explored “Extreme” Power In ‘The Brutalist’: “I Suppose On Some Level It’s The Donald Trump Version”

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Guy Pearce delivers a career-defining turn as a philistine art patron in Brady Corbet's epic drama 'The Brutalist'.
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  • Pearce's performance as the ultra-rich Harrison Lee Van Buren, who becomes a champion of Adrien Brody's emigrant Hungarian architect character, is already generating awards buzz.
  • Director Brady Corbet has crafted an ambitious 'epic drama' that includes a 15-minute intermission, signaling his intention to make a bold, sprawling statement about power and politics in post-war America.
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