How Guy Pearce Explored “Extreme” Power In ‘The Brutalist’: “I Suppose On Some Level It’s The Donald Trump Version”
deadline.comGiven the number of indelible performances he’s given since breaking out world-wide with only his third big-screen appearance — The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert in 1994 — it’s astonishing that Guy Pearce doesn’t have an awards shelf creaking with the weight of career-affirming statuettes.
That could change after Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, an epic drama (complete with 15-minute intermission) in which an emigrant Hungarian architect, László Toth (Adrien Brody), seeks political asylum, and a creative outlet, in post-war America.
As the ultra-rich Harrison Lee Van Buren, an apparent philistine who becomes Toth’s artistic champion, Pearce steals the show. DEADLINE: How did you become involved with The Brutalist? GUY PEARCE: Well, it came about in a very easy way, to be honest, because Brady had expressed an interest in me playing the role.
So, it went via my agent in America. I’m trying to think when that was… Maybe two and a half years ago. It was quite a while back. DEADLINE: Did you know Brady before that? PEARCE: I’d heard of him.
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