Adrien Brody

So even just encountering it came as a result of her photographic work. But then I'm also the only son of a photographer. So I am very much a focal point in front of the lens that came from an artist's eye. And I also witnessed her imagery and her... Her immortalization of my city and the world through that very beautiful specific lens since birth.

And whereas I grew up with film everywhere in my home, negatives being hung from the showers and film canisters in the tub and the smell of...

And whereas I grew up with film everywhere in my home, negatives being hung from the showers and film canisters in the tub and the smell of...

And whereas I grew up with film everywhere in my home, negatives being hung from the showers and film canisters in the tub and the smell of...

fixative in the dark room smelling like home and my mother and and film uh test prints on record racks all strewn around the floor in front of the landing in front of my my bedroom and so since i could crawl i was seeing imagery everywhere and beautiful imagery and i think that made art and its accessibility very tangible and available.

fixative in the dark room smelling like home and my mother and and film uh test prints on record racks all strewn around the floor in front of the landing in front of my my bedroom and so since i could crawl i was seeing imagery everywhere and beautiful imagery and i think that made art and its accessibility very tangible and available.

fixative in the dark room smelling like home and my mother and and film uh test prints on record racks all strewn around the floor in front of the landing in front of my my bedroom and so since i could crawl i was seeing imagery everywhere and beautiful imagery and i think that made art and its accessibility very tangible and available.

Thank you, Tanya. What a pleasure to be here.

Thank you, Tanya. What a pleasure to be here.

Thank you, Tanya. What a pleasure to be here.

Yes, it's a remarkable thing to find something that speaks to a struggle, a resiliency and a sense of something so intimate like my mother's journey of fleeing Hungary and my grandparents and having to leave everything behind and Those hardships that not only speak to me personally, but to so many from many different backgrounds.

Yes, it's a remarkable thing to find something that speaks to a struggle, a resiliency and a sense of something so intimate like my mother's journey of fleeing Hungary and my grandparents and having to leave everything behind and Those hardships that not only speak to me personally, but to so many from many different backgrounds.

Yes, it's a remarkable thing to find something that speaks to a struggle, a resiliency and a sense of something so intimate like my mother's journey of fleeing Hungary and my grandparents and having to leave everything behind and Those hardships that not only speak to me personally, but to so many from many different backgrounds.

And I just was in awe when I read the script and feeling how right I was for this role.

And I just was in awe when I read the script and feeling how right I was for this role.

And I just was in awe when I read the script and feeling how right I was for this role.

Well, those stories are very intimate to me. You know, there's a very interesting parallel with... The character that I play, Laszlo Toth, who is a Hungarian architect who really finds purpose and how his work, even how the works of architects of that era were really informed by the traumas of post-war times. of that time and how that influenced the architecture to come.

Well, those stories are very intimate to me. You know, there's a very interesting parallel with... The character that I play, Laszlo Toth, who is a Hungarian architect who really finds purpose and how his work, even how the works of architects of that era were really informed by the traumas of post-war times. of that time and how that influenced the architecture to come.

Well, those stories are very intimate to me. You know, there's a very interesting parallel with... The character that I play, Laszlo Toth, who is a Hungarian architect who really finds purpose and how his work, even how the works of architects of that era were really informed by the traumas of post-war times. of that time and how that influenced the architecture to come.

And I feel like my mother as an artist and her beautiful sensitivity and empathy for others, all of that is enhanced from her own struggles and her own consciousness of the struggles of others. But she shared so much along the years with me, both stories of my grandparents and Her having to say goodbye to her friends without... She was only told she was having to flee the day before they left.