Adrien Brody on Winning the Oscar, Catching a Train with Wes Anderson, and Making Music With Popcorn
“The Pianist” and “King Kong” star Adrien Brody spoke at the Red Sea Film Festival Friday about a wide variety of creative pursuits, including making music from popcorn in the 1990s.
“I liked the sound of the kernels of popcorn hitting the aluminium lid of the pan and so I set my microphone up and recorded it and then I sampled it and put on some reverb,” he told the audience in Saudi Arabia. “It went pok-a-pok-a-pok.”
Something of a prodigy, he was cast as a lead in a TV movie “Home at Last” when he was only 15 and later became the youngest actor to win the best male lead Oscar.
Hailing from Queens, New York, the child of a celebrated photographer and a painter, Brody’s love for acting was kindled when he was enrolled by his mother in an acting school — the American Academy of Dramatic Arts — where she had been photographing.
“I liked the sound of the kernels of popcorn hitting the aluminium lid of the pan and so I set my microphone up and recorded it and then I sampled it and put on some reverb,” he told the audience in Saudi Arabia. “It went pok-a-pok-a-pok.”
Something of a prodigy, he was cast as a lead in a TV movie “Home at Last” when he was only 15 and later became the youngest actor to win the best male lead Oscar.
Hailing from Queens, New York, the child of a celebrated photographer and a painter, Brody’s love for acting was kindled when he was enrolled by his mother in an acting school — the American Academy of Dramatic Arts — where she had been photographing.
- 12/8/2023
- by John Bleasdale
- Variety Film + TV
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Condé Nast may be a publishing giant, but when it comes to its content efforts, it’s all about the brands, and the culture.
“We’re drafting off of our IP and just getting smarter about getting our IP out into the world, and then building product strategy around that,” says Pam Drucker Mann, Condé Nast’s global chief revenue officer. “The way that we engage consumers is not on one platform, right? We’re not a walled garden, we’re a creator. Our job is to meet consumers where they are. I think what shifted over the last three years is we’ve been able to work with intentional partners and own our sales rights.”
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Condé Nast may be a publishing giant, but when it comes to its content efforts, it’s all about the brands, and the culture.
“We’re drafting off of our IP and just getting smarter about getting our IP out into the world, and then building product strategy around that,” says Pam Drucker Mann, Condé Nast’s global chief revenue officer. “The way that we engage consumers is not on one platform, right? We’re not a walled garden, we’re a creator. Our job is to meet consumers where they are. I think what shifted over the last three years is we’ve been able to work with intentional partners and own our sales rights.”
A critical piece of that is live events (like this week’s Met Gala), of which Vogue had exclusive access and live video coverage. But there are other events as well,...
- 5/4/2023
- by Alex Weprin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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