Adrien Brody responds to backlash over Halle Berry Oscars kiss
The controversial incident took place as he accepted his Best Actor award at the 2003 ceremony The post Adrien Brody responds to backlash over Halle Berry Oscars kiss appeared first on NME.
Adrien Brody has reflected on the backlash to the infamous moment when he kissed Halle Berry on stage at the Oscars.
At the 2003 Academy Awards, Brody won Best Actor for his performance in The Pianist and was presented the statuette by Berry, who had won Best Actress the previous year for Monster’s Ball.
As Brody took the stage to accept the award, he spontaneously swept Berry into a prologued embrace and kissed her – something that many onlookers have described as inappropriate in the decades since.
In a new interview with Variety, Brody has addressed the controversy. “We live in a very conscious time, which is a wonderful thing,” he said. “And nothing that I ever do or have done or would’ve done is ever done with the intention of making anyone feel bad.”
Berry herself has commented on the incident in the past – in 2017, she spoke on the Watch What Happens Live podcast and remembered: “I was like, ‘What the fuck is happening right now?’ That is what was going through my mind.”
She went on to explain that she did at least understand that Brody was experiencing an overwhelming moment in his life. “Because I was there the year before and I know the feeling of being out of your body, I just fucking went with it,” she explained.
Brody has received his second nomination for Best Actor this year for his role as Hungarian-Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor László Tóth in The Brutalist.
In a five-star review of the epic film, NME wrote: “But if it does win anything, The Brutalist will still probably feel like the least plausible Best Picture we’ve had in years. An epic about the literal building blocks of America, sure, and a big historical immigrant story, absolutely, it is deliberately never an easy watch. The unholy union of art and money isn’t meant to be palatable, and obsession never looks pretty if it’s done properly.”
Brody recently discussed a moment during the making of the film when a make-up artist mistook his nose for a prosthetic and attempted to remove it with solvent.
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