Brody onstage at the Academy Award ceremony with Halle Berry, upon receiving his award in 2003. He is a friend of RZA, the rap impresario behind the Wu-Tang Clan. Brody also likes to work on hip-hop beats in his spare time. They then made the regrettable decision to show it off in a tacky 35-page Hello! magazine spread.Īnd what about the hip-hop? Mr. Brody bought a castle-esque house in central New York. In 2007, as a birthday surprise to a Spanish actress named Elsa Pataky, then his girlfriend, Mr. Some older interviews and profiles were also troubling, painting Mr. But celebrities tend to have a different definition of candid than reporters. A new member of his professional coterie, a smart young Rogers & Cowan publicist, had said he was eager to talk candidly about his career. Brody rolled up to the Sunset Marquis with hat hair and an oh-so-healthy green juice drink, I did not know what to expect. Brody played a kidnapper named Harry Houdini in “Oxygen,” a little-seen crime thriller from 1999.) “He was the original action hero.” (Obscure fact: Mr. Brody said, breaking into a crooked grin. “The projects will all have me in a pivotal role, whether directing, producing or being a protagonist in the film. Brody said of his new company, Fable House. “The goal is to develop the material that I crave that doesn’t necessarily come to me,” Mr. Brody formed his own production company, which has $50 million in funding from a Nigerian energy magnate, Kola Aluko, and an anonymous Chinese investor it aims to make movies with significant box-office prospects, sometimes in partnership with studios. (Producers hope to introduce it at either the Cannes or Berlin film festival next year.) A few months ago, Mr.
Brody has six independent films in various states of completion, including “The Septembers of Shiraz,” a movie about an affluent Jewish family caught in Iran’s Islamic Revolution that has “awards run” written all over it. “I’d love to be doing movies with scope and scale, but as much as I do think studios appreciate me as an actor, they are not coming directly to me,” he said, speaking from a nook at the Sunset Marquis Hotel here. Brody seems to have decided to roll with the punches. But this is reality, darn it, and instead of wallowing in frustration, Mr. Brody would most likely be able to play any part he wanted. In an alternate universe - one where Hollywood lets men with character-actor faces play romantic leads, and studios make casting decisions based on talent and not foreign box-office algorithms - Mr.
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