How Brit fashion designer brought troubled Hollywood star Adrien Brody back from the brink to the edge of Oscar glory
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WHEN Adrien Brody became the youngest winner of a Best Actor Oscar at 29, one of Hollywood’s biggest stars should have been born. But a series of controversies — including landing an unexpected snog on guest presenter Halle Berry as she handed him the 2003 gong for The Pianist — saw his career stall.
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In fact around a decade ago it had become so hard to get the right role that the 51-year-old American — whose hit movies include The Grand Budapest Hotel and Peter Jackson’s King Kong remake — gave up acting to become a painter. Now in a relationship with Harvey Weinstein’s ex-wife, British businesswoman Georgina Chapman, Adrien is the hot favourite to pick up his second Oscar, for three-and-a-half hour epic The Brutalist.
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And he credits meeting 48-year-old fashion designer Georgina — a rising star whose fans include Jennifer Lopez and Kate Middleton — in 2019 for helping get him back on track. Earlier this month, Adrien clinched a Golden Globe for The Brutalist, and said in his acceptance speech: “To my beautiful and amazing partner Georgina.
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"Your generosity of spirit, your own resilience, your immense creativity, are a daily reminder of how to be. "I would not be standing here before you if it wasn’t for you. "There was a time not too long ago that I felt this may never be a moment afforded to me again, so thank you.”.
