Adrien Brody // Current

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Brody, Whitaker, Wood to 'Experiment'

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Angels & Demons, Management & The Brothers Bloom: The Rotten Tomatoes Show

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"In the past, Brody has chosen roles at a remove from his personality. Preparation included getting strapped into a drawer at a morgue (The Jacket) or losing 30 pounds in six weeks (The Pianist). Bloom felt different, not that Brody was ever a thief. “Well, not for long. I always had too much of a conscience to steal anything of any real value. But I knew a lot of criminally inclined individuals.” It’s more that, in playing the con man, Brody realized “that I wanted more of what the character wanted, an unwritten life. I wanted to invest more time in personal experiences rather than investing so much energy into truthfully portraying someone that isn’t myself.”

Brody learned people-watching from his mother, photographer Sylvia Plachy, who let him tag along on shoots with the likes of Timothy Leary. “I think I process the world visually, but without the camera,” he says. Taking the train from Woodhaven, where he grew up, “to Performing Arts [school] every day was probably a better education for me as an actor than school.” Among the things delighting him right now are British seniors arguing where to go next and a pack of twenty dogs behaving badly for walkers in T-shirts reading BEHAVIORAL SPECIALIST. The bad part of being recognizable is that it “obviously interferes with my ability to observe people without them observing me first.” As if on cue, one of the Specialists shouts out, “Cadillac Records was awesome!” after having spent a good twenty minutes pretending he had no idea who Brody was.

The comment opens a floodgate. One tourist from Wisconsin asks if she may merely shake his hand; most want their pictures taken with Brody, who obliges. He’s even nice to “the sneaky ones,” like two Dutch boys who keep acting as if they’re photographing the park, then turning their cameras at the last second. “Just ask. Don’t fake like you didn’t do it,” he says, motioning for them to sit on a bench with him. The best visitor by far, though, is a middle-aged black man who’s carrying a bag of mint-green Xeroxes and wearing a name tag. “Willie G, the poet! What’s happening?” says Brody. Willie is selling poems. He hands Brody one called “Smile.” “I don’t have that many teeth,” recites Willie (who really doesn’t have many teeth), “but that doesn’t mean I can’t … smile!” Brody laughs and hands over a $5 donation. Some girls who’ve been hovering ask for a picture. Willie G is stunned. “I’m talking to a movie star and I don’t know it?!” he exclaims. “You should take one with Willie,” Brody tells the girls. “He’s a poet.”""In the past, Brody has chosen roles at a remove from his personality. Preparation included getting strapped into a drawer at... more