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"The only child of a photographer and a history professor, Adrien Brody has lived and breathed the contradictions and inputs of an intellectual and creative family since a very early age. As a profession he chose to do the same thing his mother sought to accomplish with her camera: capture the essence of a person and make it visible, evident; \u00A0the difference being that he attempts to do so by embodying such person, by taking it on himself during that &amp;quot;distilled portion of life&amp;quot; we call movies. Among the other things, Brody believes that his ability to &amp;quot;blend&amp;quot; with the character he needs to play, becoming almost unaware that he is being filmed, is partly due to the fact that he was often photographed by his mother as a young boy. It was with very good reason that his performance as Wladyslaw Szpilman in\u00A0The Pianist earned him to become the youngest actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2003, a record he still holds, as well as being the only American actor to receive the C\u00E9sar Award for Best Actor in a non French performance. We met Brody in Milan at the Diesel Black Gold fashion show where he talked to us about his relationship with fashion and how it forms an integral part to the building of a character, especially for a Method actor like he is. Brody is a layered artist who manages to assimilate completely different speech registers while getting fully into the character, regardless of whether he is playing a role on the screen or he is interpreting an outfit in a fashion show. No matter if this implies making huge sacrifices or living in a constant state of estrangement from oneself in favour of inhabiting a fluid identity that is attuned to whatever goes on around him, in order to comprehend it, digest it and bring it back to life through his performance. When for work you need to step in other people\u2019s lives and embrace their identity as if it was yours, with the same ease with which you wear and own a piece of clothing, it becomes increasingly difficult to establish the boundary between yourself and the other beings you get to become, &amp;quot;because you cannot entirely separate yourself even if you try&amp;quot;; this becomes especially true if the roles you choose to play don\u2019t follow any common thread but are completely different in terms of depth and intents. So, as Adrien puts it, as a result of his work and his choices as an actor &amp;quot;you gain so much insight in yourself and others by doing the research for some character, and if you play a dramatic role you have to understand so much in order to do it justice, that it changes you, and I am grateful for that.&amp;quot; Credits Special Thanks to Diesel Black Gold Filmed by Max Finotti Edited by Marco Morona Interview by Chiara Bardelli Nonino"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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