Adrien Brody Interview: Clean
Adrien Brody has had a varied acting career, appearing in big-budget blockbusters like King Kong, winning an Oscar for The Pianist, and becoming part of director Wes Anderson's troupe of frequent collaborators (among many other accomplishments and roles). His latest movie, Clean, sees Brody play a man with a violent past seeking redemption as he dedicates himself to protecting a young girl.
Screen Rant spoke with Brody about the various roles he had in the making of Clean (he also wrote, produced, and worked on the music for the film), his next film with Anderson, Asteroid City, and more.
Related: Read Screen Rant's Clean Review
Screen Rant: You are an octopus in this movie, meaning you have eight arms stretched out in the writing, the producing, but very notably the music in the film. You create the score and the original music. What was that undertaking like for you? What was it like to put your music out into the world?
Adrien Brody: Thank you. It was such a frightening and exciting realization that the music that I had been quietly working on for now 30 years had some purpose, finally. I've had many phases of my life where music was really so important to me and, for whatever reason, I had a day job and I was working very hard at trying to build an acting career through all those years. Music is a language. It's a way of communicating emotion in a universal way that speaks to others. What occurred to me as I was making the film, and as I was inhabiting theme, that a similar longing and the influences that have affected me in my life growing up in Queens in New York, that made me the man that I am today and that have inspired the creative work that I do, not only as an actor, but my work as a painter, that same source
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