In a recent interview, actor Adrien Brody opened up about his stance on potentially working with director Roman Polanski again, admitting that the question is “too complex” to answer.
Brody, 51, made history in 2003 as the youngest actor to ever win an Oscar for Best Actor at just 29 for his role in Polanski’s The Pianist. Meanwhile, Polanski, 91, remains a controversial figure due to his conviction for unlawful sex with a minor in 1977. After pleading guilty, he fled the United States in 1978, where he’s continued to work in Europe, predominantly France. In the same year Brody won his Oscar, Polanski also won Best Director but wasn’t able to attend the ceremony due to the arrest warrant hanging over his head.
In 2018, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences expelled Polanski from its membership. When asked if he would consider collaborating with the director in the future during a chat with The Guardian, Brody said the question was “too complex to answer in this moment,” adding, “Really is.”
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Brody, who’s currently being considered for a second Oscar nomination for his role in The Brutalist, addressed Polanski’s controversial past in a 2016 SiriusXM interview.
Life is very complicated. I look to collaborate with artistic people and to go into an endeavour without judgement and to hopefully be treated with the same.
Brody said at the time
It’s an artistic pursuit, and Polanski for instance had a very complicated and difficult life. It would be unfair of me to delve into something as complicated as the past that was brought up in the media.
He continued
Polanski’s troubled past continues to spark debate, with a recent civil lawsuit against him related to a 1973 rape allegation being withdrawn after a settlement. The case had been scheduled for a hearing in 2025.
For now, Brody remains non-committal about working with the director again, leaving the question of future collaboration still hanging in the balance.
Source: Independent