‘The Brutalist’ director defends Adrien Brody’s performance following AI backlash

nme.com:

The Brutalist director Brady Corbet has defended the epic period drama amid backlash surrounding the use of AI in Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones’ performances.The movie, which follows fictional Hungarian-born Jewish architect, László Tóth (Brody), as he moves to the US with his wife Erzsébet (Jones), has been acclaimed by critics.

However, it’s also been the subject of criticism after editor Dávid Jancsó shared that AI was used to alter Brody and Jones’ Hungarian accents.Following the criticism, with some speculating that AI technology had been used to improve the stars’ performances, Corbet defended its use in a statement provided to The Hollywood Reporter.He said, “Adrien and Felicity’s performances are completely their own.

They worked for months with dialect coach Tanera Marshall to perfect their accents. Innovative Respeecher technology was used in Hungarian language dialogue editing only, specifically to refine certain vowels and letters for accuracy.

No English language was changed.“This was a manual process, done by our sound team and Respeecher in post-production. The aim was to preserve the authenticity of Adrien and Felicity’s performances in another language, not to replace or alter them and done with the utmost respect for the craft.”A lot of the film’s dialogue is in Hungarian, and Jancsó told Red Shark News that small adjustments were required to enhance certain vocal sounds to make the movie as accurate as possible.