(Producers hope to introduce it at either the Cannes or Berlin film festival next year.) A few months ago, Brody formed his own production company, which has $50 million in funding from a Nigerian energy magnate, Kola Aluko, and an anonymous Chinese investor the company aims to make movies with significant box-office prospects, sometimes in partnership with studios. 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. But this is reality, darn it, and instead of wallowing in frustration, Brody seems to have decided to roll with the punches. 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 - Brody would most likely be able to play any part he wanted. But I don't think actors should restrict themselves that way."
"There are people who make a career in Hollywood by being a type.
"I think that perhaps I have confused people with my approach to work," Brody said. So why has Adrien Brody's studio career been in such a lull? Despite appearing in smaller films like Wes Anderson's "Grand Budapest Hotel" and landing the title role in the History Channel's coming "Houdini" miniseries, Brody, 41, has only been in one major studio film in the last nine years: "Predators," a science-fiction movie from 20th Century Fox. Women seem to find him sexy, at least judging by the knockouts he dates. He has a reputation in Hollywood as loyal and affable. He starved himself for one part, gained 25 pounds for another and has gone to other extremes - wetting his pants, for instance - when a role has required it. His work ethic is most definitely not the reason.
He can be mesmerizing on screen and has an Oscar to prove it.
It's not because the guy needs an acting coach.
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