‘The Brutalist’s Adrien Brody says makeup artist tried to remove his nose
Star tapped for Best Actor at Oscars for role as Holocaust survivor says his schnoz was mistaken for a prosthetic; he explained that it ‘doesn’t come off’
American actor Adrien Brody, who is up for a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of a Holocaust survivor in “The Brutalist,” said a makeup artist on the film set tried to remove his prominent nose after mistaking it for a prosthetic.
“This woman was busily working away with a solvent on my nose,” Brody, 51, told late-night host Jimmy Fallon on Monday. “I said: ‘Are you trying to remove that?’ and she said: ‘Yes.'”
“‘That doesn’t come off,'” Brody responded.
The makeup artist apologized, and added, “This is going in my diary,” Brody recalled.
“Now it’s going in my talk-show repertoire,” he quipped.
Brody has broken his nose three times — once while filming a fight scene in Spike Lee’s 1999 movie “Summer of Sam” — giving it a distinct curvature.
Speaking to Fallon, the actor also said Kim Kardashian “blew up my internet” after the mega-influencer confused him with Adam Brody in an Instagram post about the hit Netflix show “Nobody Wants This,” where the latter Brody plays a rabbi who dates a non-Jewish woman.
Adrien Brody’s nomination for Best Actor comes 22 years after he became the youngest person ever to win in the category for his role in Roman Polanski’s acclaimed Holocaust film “The Pianist.”
In “The Brutalist,” Brody plays a Hungarian Jewish architect who immigrates to the United States after surviving the Holocaust. The actor has come under fire for using artificial intelligence to perfect his Hungarian accent in the film.
Brody told Fallon that the role was personal to him, because his mother’s family left Hungary for the US following the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Brody’s grandmother, a Czech-born Jew, was forced into hiding during the Holocaust.
