Adrien Brody sidesteps question about The Pianist director Roman Polanski
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Actor won an Oscar for his collaboration with Polanski in the 2003 film ‘The Pianist’. Actor Adrien Brody has said that questions about whether he would work with director Roman Polanski again are “too complex” to answer in an interview. Brody, 51, remains the youngest man to ever win the Oscar for Best Actor, after winning the trophy in 2003 at the age of 29 for his role in Polanski’s The Pianist.
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Polanski, 91, fled the United States in 1978 after pleading guilty to unlawful sex with a minor. He travelled to Europe, where he has continued to live and work, mostly in France, and was awarded the best director Oscar in the same year as Brody’s win.
The Rosemary’s Baby director did not attend the ceremony because of the outstanding warrant for his arrest. In 2018, the Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the industry body behind the Oscars, expelled Polanski from its membership. Back in 2016, Brody, who is currently thought to be in contention for a second Oscar nomination for his work in The Brutalist, touched on the allegations against Polanski in a radio interview with US broadcaster SiriusXM.
“Life is very complicated,” he said. “I look to collaborate with artistic people and to go into an endeavour without judgement and to hopefully be treated with the same. “It’s an artistic pursuit, and Polanski for instance had a very complicated and difficult life. It would be unfair of me to delve into something as complicated as the past that was brought up in the media.”.
