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Method Actor

Now starring in "Harrison's Flowers,"
Adrien Brody starved for Roman Polanski's
upcoming Warsaw Ghetto film.

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MICHAEL FOX
Special to the Jewish News

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he lanky young actor
Adrien Brody played mem-
orably intense Jewish char-
acters in Steven
Soderbergh's King of the Hill and Barry
Levinson's Liberty Heights.
But those supporting parts pale next
to his harrowing lead performance in
Roman Polanksi's upcoming drama,
The Pianist, adapted from Jewish corn-
poser Wladyslaw Szpilman's 1946
autobiography of survival in the
Warsaw Ghetto, Death of a City.
"Most of the story takes place
through my eyes and ifi a lot of isola-
tion," the soft-spoken New York actor
says. "It's very much about the state of
mind of that character and what he
undergoes as a man, and I had to
experience that on a very real level."
Brody had shot several movies in a
row without a break, so he was already
exhausted when he arrived on the set.
That suited Polanski fine.
"Roman wore me out even more,"

Brody relates. "I lost a tremendous
amount of weight. There's a scene
where you can basically see through
my face. It was very difficult because
I'm very thin anyway."
Brody dropped almost 30 pounds,
but don't mistake him for one of those
pretty-boy actors who dabbles in dis-
comfort as a badge of courage.
"I think it's important to know that
suffering," Brody says, speaking delib-
erately, "and not act it. I've never actu-
ally gone hungry, and to know what
that feels like — where your every
thought is about just eating, anything,
and you can't — is powerful."

Harrison's Flowers

The Pianist was shot a year ago in
Berlin and Warsaw, and will likely
premiere at Cannes in May and open
in the U.S. late this year.
Brody generously talked about,
working on The Pianist while travel-
ing to promote Harrison's Flowers, in
which he plays a free-spirited pho-
tographer helping Andie MacDowell