Oscar winner Adrien Brody reflects on "The Pianist," Method acting and why new movie "The Brutalist" was so "challenging" for his parents to watch.

I accepted that role without my agents even reading the script,” Brody told me with a wry expression. “Night didn’t want anyone to read it, so I honored his request.” Brody had come up working with directors like Spike Lee,

Adrien Brody won the Best Actor Oscar in 2003 for playing a Holocaust survivor in “The Pianist” and now he’s expected to have his second Oscar nomination as a very different Holocaust survivor in

Adrien Brody’s performance as a Hungarian architect in “ The Brutalist ” has won him his first Golden Globe. In the three-and-a-half hour film directed by Brady Corbet, the actor plays László Tóth, a Holocaust survivor trying to rebuild his life in America following the war.