Adrien Brody
Oscar winner skipped role in “The Lord of the Rings”
Only at the second attempt did Adrien Brody work with Peter Jackson.
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Adrien Brody was almost part of the fight for the one ring. But the Oscar winner skipped a role in “Lord of the Rings”.
Actors and actresses do not always have a good instinct when choosing their roles. Sometimes they take on a part and wish they didn’t do it. Or, as Adrien Brody (48) has now revealed, skip a potential role in her life. In conversation with “GQ” the Oscar winner revealed that he could have been part of Peter Jackson’s (59) highly acclaimed “The Lord of the Rings” film – but declined with thanks.
It would have been a “hobbit-like character,” according to Brody. However, at the time he “looked around for something else” and let the chance slip by. A circumstance that made him difficult to explain a little later: “I still remember watching ‘The Lord of the Rings’ with an ex-girlfriend in the cinema. She looked at me and said:’ You got ‘Lord of the Rings’ ‘ miss?'”
Blessing in disguise
At first, Brody quarreled about the missed opportunity: “I felt so stupid,” he sums up his mood at the time in an interview. But he grabbed the second chance to work with Peter Jackson by the head: Brody played the male lead in “King Kong” in 2005 alongside Naomi Watts (53). The actor is certain that if he had agreed to play “Lord of the Rings”, he would have been denied this part. “I don’t think it would have matched.”
Brody won the 2003 Oscar for “Best Actor” for the war drama “The Pianist”. The moment at the Academy Awards, when he kissed Halle Berry (55) on the lips, will not be forgotten. In the following years, however, he was never able to build on his early success. However, director Wes Anderson (52) remained loyal to him and reliably cast Brody in his films. This is also the case with “The French Dispatch”, which opens in German cinemas on October 21st.