‘The Brutalist’ Star Adrien Brody is Always Happy to Work Himself to Exhaustion: “That is Very Fulfilling”

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• Brody was initially passed over for the lead role of Hungarian-Jewish architect László Tóth, but was thrilled when the part came back to him after the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the film's original plans.
• The actor has a strong personal connection to the material, as his own mother and grandparents fled Hungary in the 1956 revolution, providing him an 'innate understanding' of the character's experience.