At the 1:33 mark, Martin Landau conveys his opinion about Adrien Brody‘s profuse first-act weeping scene in The Brutalist. Okay, he’s not talking about Brody but he may as well be.
“Only bad actors show you emotion. How a character hides his feelings tells us who he is. No one tries to cry in life. Everyone tries to hide it.”
And yet Brody was obviously excellent in The Pianist. So let’s get down to it — only bad directors urge their actors to openly cry, or allow their actors to do so. The bad guy, in short, is Brutalist helmer Brady Corbet, not Brody.
