“We got much more graphic depictions,” Brody tells EW.
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Warning: this article contains spoilers forThe Brutalist.
The sequence struck Pearce as an unexpectedly sudden escalation ofThe Brutalist’s central dynamic.
Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce in ‘The Brutalist’.Credit:Lol Crawley
the actor tellsEntertainment Weekly.
“I just wanted to understand where that came from.
“It might have been the first or second scene I shot,” the actor tells EW.
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“I was like, ‘How do you do?
Let’s go.'”
But that wasn’t the only angle Corbet captured on set.
“We shot it in multiple ways,” Brody recalls.
“We got much more graphic depictions.”
And I think he’s right to just hold back.
And you could’t quite see.”
“She says, ‘I’ve managed to keep myself mostly to myself.’
Pearce also wonders if Harrison’s abuse extends beyond the cave scene.
“That was sort of left alone in my mind.
Pearce came to another surprising realization when rewatching the film.
He continues, “I’m doing it to justify to myself why I’m doing this.
‘That’s all you are.
Therefore, I can justify doing this.’
Whereas it didn’t really occur to me so much when we filmed it.
Corbet clarifies his intentions as he articulates his themes.
“I love neorealist movies, but it’s just not what I do.
Because, for example, when Michael Powell madePeeping Tom, we all know how that went.
It went very poorly.”
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The director sought to echo filmmaking techniques from the era in whichThe Brutalistis set.
“They would handle it in a very literal way.
It’s really not.”
“It’s all pretty harrowing stuff, isn’t it?”
Reporting by Christian Holub.
These interviews have been edited for clarity and length.
