Quite A Life With Adrien Brody & Jason Schwartzman

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Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Topics covered include: The strength and fragility of László Toth, chunky old tape recorders, Adrien’s Hungarian grandfather, heavy accents, giant dictionaries, descending from immigrants, the photography of André Kertész, 3-4 hours of prosthetics for Queer, the transformative experience of making The Darjeeling Limited, emotional truths paired with broad f*cking comedy, walking all over India barefoot, digital and analog instruments, loving gear too much, and Jason telling his 10 year-old she can’t come to The Brutalist because she could barely get through Wild Robot.

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0:00.0	Happy New Year and welcome back to the A24 podcast.
0:07.8	Adrian Brody and Jason Shortsman have been friends for nearly two decades after bonding on Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited.
0:14.6	Last month, we got Adrian and Jason together to talk about making music, memories from a long friendship, and their respective roles in
0:21.5	queer and the Brutalist. Queer is now available to watch at home, and if you haven't caught
0:26.2	the Brutalist in theaters, it expands nationwide next weekend. We hope you enjoy the conversation.
0:31.9	Here's Jason and Adrian. How are you? How are you? How are you? How are you? How are you? How are you?
0:38.0	What should we begin?
0:38.9	I think we've begun.
0:40.5	This is Jason Swartzman.
0:42.4	This is Adrian Brody.
0:43.4	And we are here on the 824 podcast, which I might add is quite ingenious.
0:50.0	Yeah, it is.
0:51.2	As you are in an 824 film.
0:53.4	Yes, yeah.
0:55.0	And I just happen to be in a 24 film. And you are in an A-24 film. Yes, yeah. And I just happen to be in A-24 film.
0:56.0	And you're wonderful.
0:57.0	And you're wonderful.
0:58.0	Well, come, let's...
0:59.0	You were unrecognizable at first.
1:03.0	You were so free and you reveled in that freedom.
1:07.0	And it's a funny thing that I've seen you in lots of work and but obviously we've worked
1:11.6	together with Wes so many times and I love the specificity of West's work and what it brings out
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