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[Photos] Cannes 2019.
The 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival on May 21 – 23, 2019 in Cannes, France.
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[Photos] 2017 Vanity Fair Oscar Party.
Actor Adrien Brody and his girlfriend the model Lara Leito attends the 2017 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Graydon Carter at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 26, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California.
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[Photos] Warner Music Group GRAMMY After Party 2017.
Adrien Brody and his grilfriend Lara Leito attend the Republic Records GRAMMY After Party at Catch LA and Warner Music Group Grammy after party at Milk Studios in Hollywood, California on Feb. 12, 2017.
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Adrien Brody on Why It’s Never Too Late to Become an Artist.
Credits: —Alexander Forbes from artsy.net
In 2002, Adrien Brody became the youngest person ever to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, at age 29. He’s a household name for that role, as Polish pianist and composer Wladyslaw Szpilman, in Roman Polanski’s The Pianist. And he has since gone on to star in films such as Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited (2007) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Peter Jackson’s remake of King Kong (2005), and Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris (2011). But two years ago, Brody decided it was time to devote himself to a passion he had long neglected: painting.
It happened by chance. A friend of Brody’s, a French artist, had promised to paint him a piece. After four years, and a period spent out of touch, they finally settled on a time for the work to be completed.
“I built him a large canvas, measured it for the wall,” recalls Brody.
“And I bought some additional canvases in case he wanted to do some additional work and play around. I thought I might help him. And so while he was painting, I started painting some stuff too.” Brody’s friend was adamant that the actor had to continue.
On November, we’re sitting in Shanghai at ART021 art fair as Brody recounts this return to a dormant creativity he had often thought about picking back up but never got around to independently.
“Painting was something that I loved and dreamt of coming back to one day but never did. I think a lot of people have that: maybe they were talented at guitar or they used to sing or they used to draw,” says the 43-year-old actor, glancing at the works he was presenting at the fair in a collaboration with the nonprofit organization Teach for China.
Brody had donated one of the pieces—a lacquered painting of a fish, covered in drips of paint à la Pollock—to the charity, which sends Chinese and American graduates to teach in schools in rural China. This week, similar work is featured as part of David Benrimon’s booth at Art Miami, as part of Miami Art Week.
Painting was something that Brody initially attempted to pursue professionally.
“I had applied to art school and was rejected,” he recounts. Like so many people who neglect or abandon creative passions, the young Brody was impacted by being turned away.
“It’s discouraging in a way when the establishment or teachers criticize your work or dismiss your abilities. Inevitably you take it personally, especially in your adolescence. You’re at a young age where you are dreaming but you’re naturally insecure. Your ideas and your sense of self, none of those are there.”
The actor’s spontaneous painting session came at a particularly opportune time.
“I had been working a lot as an actor and producer, and had just been really immersed in all that,” he says.
But rewarding as this work was, it left him with another urge: “I was bursting with desire to express myself independently. Painting lets me do that without the burden of having a screenwriter, a conversation about a script to make it suit me a bit more, finding a filmmaker that elevates me, and having an editor, and the producers, and the marketing team change the work that I go into doing and then it becoming something else, yet with my name on it. This is my doing.”
Much like when he famously lost 30 pounds and cut ties with his personal life in preparation for his role as a Polish-Jewish musician fleeing the Nazis in The Pianist, Brody has leapt into his artistic career with gusto. And he has been prolific. In Shanghai, the fish we’re sitting amidst reflect the degradation of our ecosystem and the way in which our fast-paced, technology-consumed lives have led us to neglect our inner spiritual consciousness. In previous bodies of work, Brody has created installations out of stuffed animals dressed up like gangbangers to comment on the how the degradation of the nuclear family in urban contexts has contributed to a perpetual cycle of violence and he’s painted burgers and hot dogs in a nod to the ways fast food culture reflects a more overarching shortsightedness when it comes to quality of life, health, and the environment. Ultimately, his work is about self-fulfillment more than it is public acclaim.
“Whether someone appreciates it or not, it’s fine, it’s subjective. But it’s coming from me. And it’s wonderful. The process in and of itself is so exciting and fun.”
Brody credits his artistic adventurousness to his parents.
“I come from a family of artists,” he says. “My mother [Sylvia Plachy] is a photographer and on an artistic and a spiritual level she’s really a guiding light for me. And my father is a very talented painter.” Brody’s father took up painting in earnest after retiring from his job as a public school teacher.
The actor recalls his dad retreating to the attic of their Queens home to spend time with his easel and oils.
“My dedication to a lifetime of pursuing creative output is something that came from my parents. They nurtured me and approved of me doing something that was never going to be easy. They’ve given me the courage to take risks creatively and pursue something without there being a goal of success.”
The intention Brody brings to his work is unimpeachable—especially the way in which he’s marshalled it to raise significant funds for charities. “I should exceed a million dollars in donations this past year,” says Brody.
“That’s not something I could have done had I not taken this on.” Aside from his contributions to Teach for China, he’s helped benefit environmental initiatives, AIDs research, and other youth organizations, working with fellow actor and art collector Leonardo DiCaprio this summer for DiCaprio’s annual auction in St. Tropez. “I’m thrilled. You know, all of it is part of the bigger picture,” he says.
That’s not to say that putting acting somewhat to the side in order to pursue his art work hasn’t come without sacrifice.
“I obviously put down a lot of earning potential for two years to work on what I do creatively and to pursue a greater understanding of myself and a commitment to guiding myself,” he says.
But Brody also notes that the emotional openness and deeper inner consciousness that both acting and painting create each fertilize the other. Acting, says Brody, will always come first for him.
“I am an actor and I’m destined to be an actor. I was already an actor when I was rejected from art school.”
But with painting, he’s revived a dream once put on hold—and set a powerful example for others who may similarly be harboring unfulfilled creative passions.
Details, photos and more about the film “Emperor”
DETAILS:
Genre: Action / adventure
Director: Lee Tamahori.
Script: Michael Thomas, Jeffrey Hatcher
Release Date: ????
SYNOPSIS:
Johanna ‘Of Ghent’ (Sophie Cookson), a feisty and daring 21-year-old infiltrates the court of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (Adrien Brody) to avenge the death of her father at a time when the emperor is struggling to hold together a fragmented empire in a world of wealth, debauchery, intrigue and treason.
CAST:
Academy Award-winner Adrien Brody playing legendary Emperor Charles V, with Paz Vega as Queen Mary of Hungary, Oliver Platt as Pope Clement VII, Bill Skarsgard as Philip II of Spain, Eddie Marsan as Martin Luther, Sophie Cookson as Johanna and with as German superstar Thomas Kretschmann and movie legend Rutger Hauer also in the stellar cast.
PROBLEMS:
Is currently in post-production and the release date is unknown for problems with the production company. The film has been completed and is in post production since 2015.
POSTER:
CHARACTER PHOTOS FROM EMPEROR:
Adrien Brody as the legendary Emperor Charles V.
LEE TAMAHORI’S EMPEROR is an action epic about a young girl who seeks revenge on the holy Roman Emperor Charles V for the death of her father by infiltrating his royal court. It happens in a world of wealth, debauchery, violent retaliations, sex, manipulation and treason in which Charles V is trying to hold together a fragmented empire… it’s the 16th century revisited!
Charles V was a Duke of Burgundy and Holy Roman Emperor who ruled a massive Empire in which the sun never set including the Spanish Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Habsburg Netherlands and extensive territories in western, central, and southern Europe, and the Spanish colonies in the Americas and Asia where he sanctioned the conquest by Castillian conquistadors of the Aztec and Inca empires. Although the four decades of his rule were marked by many wars (mostly against France, German princes and the Ottoman Sultan) in the end he abdicated in order to live and then die in a monastery instead on a battle field.
Filming and behind the scenes:
Credits
Info: Corsan
Entrevista a Adrien Brody sobre su segunda serie de obras de arte “Hooked”.
Source: pursuitist.com
Traducido por: Adrien Brody Fansite.
En el béisbol, a quien ellos llaman el hombre que puede hacerlo todo “Jugador cinco herramientas”, en el mundo del arte hoy en día, esas herramientas pertenecen a Adrien Brody. El ganador del Oscar más joven de la historia en la categoría de mejor actor, ha protagonizado junto a Owen Wilson y Naomi Watts, ha sido dirigido por leyendas como Woody Allen y Roman Polanski, y recientemente fue nominado a un Emmy por su interpretación de Harry Houdini.
Pero para Adrien Brody, la magia no termina con la actuación. Cuando no está apareciendo en la pantalla grande, Brody se encuentra inmerso en su otra pasión: la pintura. Este hijo de una fotógrafa y un profesor, presentó el debut de su segunda serie, “Hooked” (En español “Enganchado”) en el Art New York, que tuvo lugar en el Muelle 94 del 3 al 8 de Mayo pasado.
The Overhead Compartment está encantado de compartir unos minutos con este multi artista talentoso para aprender acerca de su pasión, su visión y su fascinación por los detalles más pequeños en el mundo que le rodea.
Pregunta: ¿Cómo encontró su inspiración para la serie “Hooked” / “Enganchado”?
Adrien Brody: Estoy en constante búsqueda de inspiración. Creo que esa es la belleza del arte. Lo ves en todas partes, si estás en sintonía con él, y ciertas cosas desencadenar otros pensamientos, pueden convertirse en una historia coherente. Siempre me ha gustado el pescado. Son un ejemplo maravilloso de algo tan delicado, tan brillante y vivo. En el océano existen en las profundidades oscuras y lo veo como una metáfora de la capacidad del espíritu y de la vida para brillar en la oscuridad. En mi primera serie, perros calientes, hamburguesas y armas de mano, pensé más en los elementos más oscuros manifiestos que creo que están pesando sobre nosotros en nuestra sociedad actual. La violencia está siempre presente, es una amenaza que existe, es algo que es intangible y algo que es muy tangible. Y en esta serie me siento mucho más inspirado a pesar de que lo que toco en un poco de oscuridad con el descuido de los consumidores, un mundo moderno exuda y permite que la gente sea menos consciente, sean parte de lo que me parece importante, y la historia diciendo, aquí es que tenemos que reconocer la ligereza dentro de nosotros y también reconocer y cuidar la fragilidad en el mundo que nos rodea. Los peces que viven en ese mundo son obviamente víctima de nuestro descuido y tal vez bajo aprecio.
Pregunta: ¿Cómo tienen sus viajes inspiraron en su trabajo?
Adrien Brody: Me paso una gran cantidad de tiempo de trabajo y de vida en el extranjero, estuve un gran tiempo en China y Japón y en el sudeste de Asia, he estado recientemente en Palau y Micronesia y todos aquellos viajes están en algunos de mis trabajos más recientes.
Pregunta: ¿Qué mensaje espera que la gente experimente con su trabajo?
Adrien Brody: Bueno, yo no quiero predicar o especular, pero espero que entre las personas al ver mi obra, se pueda crear una conversación al respecto del mensaje de la misma, y espero que haya por parte de las personas un reconocimiento por el mundo que nos rodea, que es de alguna manera lo que se nos pasa por alto en nuestras acciones cotidianas, y esto es algo que todos deben ser consciente, todos somos culpables de ello. Soy culpable de ello también. Estamos consumidos con mayor comodidad y fácil acceso, creo que tenemos que ser conscientes de las cosas que consumimos y cómo somos quizás un poco descuidados con nuestras acciones y la manera en que todos tenemos que reconocer nuestra responsabilidad. Incluso si no nos afecta directamente, estamos involucrados directamente en ser el bien del mundo, de nosotros y de otros seres vivos. Nuestros compañeros humanos y los animales que nos rodean alrededor. Hay una gran cantidad de trabajo del corazón de la luz, que espero no quede eclipsado por el mensaje más social dentro de la obra, pero yo siento como que ambos son muy necesarios en mi expresión.
Pregunta: ¿Cómo describirías las diferencias en los procesos creativos en la pintura frente a la actuación?
Adrien Brody: Me encanta y estoy muy agradecido por la autonomía creativa que tengo como un pintor. Siempre he sido muy creativo y me encanta el cine, me encanta hacer películas, es un verdadero amor mío, pero es un proceso engorroso, incluso si vas a crear un material, debes ser producido por alguien, todo se basa en tanta gente, tantos lugares… Al final del día, tu trabajo y tu contribución consigue de alguna manera ser confusa, en cambio como artista es realmente tu responsabilidad y sólo tuya y te tienes que hacer responsable de ello, sin embargo, uno tiene la libertad para crear, nadie te dirige cuando estás inspirado. Creo que es un proceso muy generoso por sí mismo, lo que se da a sí mismo, te da una libertad que a menudo está gravado en una forma de arte como el cine, yes un regalo para los demás en el intercambio de ideas y cosas, además el lenguaje no es ni siquiera necesario en la mayoría de los casos, como la música que realmente trasciende tanto. Y es encantador vender tu trabajo y ser apreciado por tu trabajo, tu inspiración, pero también es algo que se comparte y está disponible para que cualquiera que pueda verlo… Eso es una cosa hermosa, y en el mundo de hoy realmente se puede compartir tanto con la gente.
Pregunta: Usted publicó en instagram una foto de su mano cubierta de pintura y declaró: “Hoy fue un buen día” ¿Qué quería decir?
Adrien Brody: Tú puedes sentir lo que estoy diciendo en eso, yo ni siquiera estaba mostrando mi propio trabajo ni nada, solo mostraba mi mano. Fue tan maravilloso, no estaba cubierta de pintura, pero se podía sentir y es tan emocionante estar así y sentirlo.
Pregunta: ¿Cuán diferentes son las experiencias de reacción y las críticas a su pintura frente a su trabajo en el cine?
Adrien Brody: He tenido una gran cantidad de respuestas positivas, e inevitablemente, en cualquier cosa que hagas, allí siempre va a haber una diferencia de opiniones. Creo que Warhol dijo que “gastaba mi tiempo en la creación de arte (y estoy parafraseando), no pienso en ello, no juzgo y mejor sigo creando. Hay muchas personas que están juzgando el arte. Me identifico en eso con mi trabajo en el cine, aunque es algo diferente, como un artista tienes que seguir experimentando y tienes mucha más libertad creativa y eso es lo que me gusta del arte.
Pregunta: ¿Dónde son algunos de sus lugares favoritos para viajar?
Adrien Brody: Europa y Asia.
Pregunta: ¿Cual es la cosa de la cual nunca puedes salir de casa sin ello?
Adrien Brody: Mi iPhone.
Source: pursuitist.com
Traducido por: Adrien Brody Fansite.
[Photos] The ‘Jacob & Co, Magnificent Timepiece & Jewelry Exhibition’ on August 5, 2016.
Actor Adrien Brody attends the ‘Jacob & Co, Magnificent Timepiece & Jewelry Exhibition’ at Hotel Hermitage on August 5, 2016 in Monaco.
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‘The Art of Giving’ Love Ball Naked Heart foundation – Paris Fashion Week on July 2016.
Adrien Brody and Lara Leito attend the ‘The Art of Giving’ Love Ball Naked Heart foundation : Photo Call as part of Paris Fashion Week on July 6, 2016 in Paris, France.
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[Photos] Amfar Paris Dinner on July 3, 2016.
At the evening gala of AMFAR, charity event to benefit the fight against AIDS at the hotel Peninsula, Donatella Versace, Naomi Campbell, Adrien Brody and Jennifer Garner dressed by Versace pose for Paris Match on july 03, 2016 in Paris, France.
A la gala de los AMFAR, evento de caridad a beneficio de la lucha contra el SIDA en el hotel Península, llegaron Donatella Versace, Naomi Campbell, Adrien Brody y Jennifer Garner vestida de Versace posaron para Paris Match el día 03 Julio, 2016, París, Francia.
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