Adrian Brody stated in a brand new interview with New York Journal that he has PTSD from starring in Roman Polanski’s 2002 biographical drama “The Pianist,” which gained him the Oscar for finest actor. Brody stars within the movie as Holocaust survivor Władysław Szpilman. He ready for the position by placing himself on a near-starvation food plan with a view to lose 30 kilos and convey his weight to only 129 kilos. Per the journal, Brody “was barely consuming water by the point they began filming.”

“That was a bodily transformation that was vital for storytelling,” Brody stated, trying again. “However then that form of opened me up, spiritually, to a depth of understanding of vacancy and starvation in a method that I didn’t know, ever.”

When requested if has PTSD from the expertise, Brody answered: “I do, yeah.”

“I undoubtedly had an consuming dysfunction for a minimum of a yr,” he added. “After which I used to be depressed for a yr, if not a lifetime. I’m kidding, I’m kidding.”

“The Pianist” wasn’t the primary time Brody did relentless prep work for a film. As recounted by New York Journal: “When he filmed ‘The Jacket,’ a sci-fi thriller through which he’s despatched to a psychological establishment, he instructed the director to depart him in a straitjacket so he may get a really feel for it. He broke his nostril when somebody by accident punched him within the face through the filming of ‘Summer season of Sam,’ giving him a everlasting dent. For ‘Oxygen,’ through which he performs a serial killer with braces, he acquired precise metallic ones as an alternative of prosthetics. ‘I didn’t know the way fucking painful that was till they caught in pliers and ripped them off my tooth on the finish,’ he says. For ‘Wrecked,’ he ate ants and worms (his character wakes up alone within the woods).”

Brody gained the Oscar for “The Pianist” at 29 years previous, making him the youngest winner within the class in Academy Award historical past. Across the similar time, he courted controversy for internet hosting “Saturday Night time Stay” and sporting dreadlocks and a Jamaican accent to introduce musical visitor Sean Paul.

“They have been all actually agape from me pitching,” Brody remembered. “I feel Lorne wasn’t proud of me embellishing a bit, however they allowed me to. I believed that was a protected area to do this, weirdly.”

Brody added that rumors of him being banned from “SNL” usually are not true to his data, though: “I’ve by no means been invited again on. So I don’t know what to inform you.”

Brody is now again within the working for finest actor because of his efficiency in Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist,” which has already gained him an appearing prize from the New York Movie Critics Circle. The movie is now enjoying in choose theaters from A24. Head over to New York Journal’s web site to learn Brody’s newest profile in its entirety.