Adrien Brody slammed for ‘hurling’ used gum at girlfriend Georgina Chapman before Oscars 2025 acceptance speech

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Oscars 2025 viewers for taking his gum out of his mouth and throwing it at his girlfriend, Georgina Chapman, just before he got on stage to accept the best actor award.“The Brutalist” star, 51, was announced as the winner by Cillian Murphy and immediately embraced Chapman, 48.

After hugging some of his co-stars and director Brady Corbet, he headed to the Dolby Theater stage to give his speech.But Brody briefly stopped, took his gum out of his mouth, and tossed it down at Chapman, who ran from her seat in the front row to catch it.“It was rude for Adrien Brody to throw his gum at his girlfriend like that,” one fan wrote on X (formerly Twitter).“I would love to know the internal monologue Adrien Brody had in his head when he decided to throw his gum (?!) to his partner in the first row,” another viewer said.A third person wrote, “I hate Adrien Brody winning because I had to watch him dig gum out of his mouth and throw it at his partner.”“Arrest adrien brody for hurling his gum at his wife at the oscars,” a different tweet read.“No shade but adrien throwing that gum at his wife was so tacky and gross,” someone else said.“The way Adrien Brody threw his gum into the crowd made me actually stop in my tracks and gag.

WHY,” another viewer tweeted.During his five minute-long speech, Brody — who beat Timothée Chalamet, Colman Domingo, Sebastian Stan and Ralph Fiennes in the best actor category — said that winning his second Oscar is “beyond the pinnacle of a career” and hopes it proves he’s “worthy of such meaningful, important and relevant roles.”“No matter where you are in your career and what you’ve accomplished, it can all go away,” he said. “And I think what makes this night most special is the awareness of that and the.