Behind the rise, fall and rise again of Adrien Brody

Between these two peaks lies two decades of being pulled in multiple directions, a complicated fascination with fame that has left Brody somewhat overlooked by the elite in the film industry.

Brady Corbet is played by László Tóth, a skilled architect who escapes the Holocaust by emigrating to America, where he encounters a life of hardship, unscrupulous treatment, and substance dependency.

Producers were "literally agape" when he pitched that particular skit – now removed from any of the programme’s online material – and hasn’t been invited back since. There was also the incident at the Oscars, when he suddenly kissed presenter Halle Berry. ("I just thought, 'What the bleedin' heck's going on?'", Berry recalled later.)

Brody lost 30lb, "I fell ill due to it," he said. "It was a steady accumulation. I had a severely restrictive diet."

There was public humiliation and potential career damage associated with all that, in the end I didn't know the position had been significantly weakened. As I looked back, I thought, 'What a fortunate escape I had from achieving praise and recognition at a relatively young age.'

In which he was almost cast (that part eventually went to the notably lower-profile Zachary Quinto).

a lacklustre follow-up to the Arnold Schwarzenegger classic.

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(2023) – producing consistently solid results, albeit with a subtle degree of unimprovement.

An unmade film, directed by Lee Tamahori and showcased at Cannes, remains unreleased due to legal issues. In 2016, Brody ceased filming for movies, releasing a few completed ones over the next few years. He since dedicated himself more to his artistic passion for painting.

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One close look at past performances turns up a run of highly-touted hits followed by further lesser-known stunners, and you'd be making a folly if you staked your expectations on him ruling out another success at some point within the next two decades.

‘The Brutalist’ is now showing in cinemas.

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