Why Adrien Brody credits his previous work for 'Clean'?
by Ana Walia | Mon, 07 Feb 2022 17:49:46 GMT
Image Source: Inverse, IMDb

Adrien Brody who starred as Luca Changretta in ‘Peaky Blinders’ is crediting his 2021 release, ‘Clean’ as a result of working on Peaky Blinders.

Academy Award-winning actor Adrien Brody recently spoke to The Hollywood Reporter where he revealed that he had batted around the idea of 'Clean' for almost a decade but it was finally working on the Peaky Blinders that inspired him to finish his project.

'Clean' is a movie that revolves around a waste collector who is actively trying to make amends for his dark and tragic past. The actor has not only starred in the movie but also co-wrote and produced it alongside director Paul Solet. He told to The Hollywood Reporter, “Peaky Blinders basically led to Clean because I was very inspired and in a zone. It bolstered a degree of confidence that it took for me to be decisive and to engage Paul Solet, and say, ‘Let’s do this. Let’s go and build this because it’s not just coming.’ So the writing process started right at that time while shooting Peaky Blinders season four.”

Adrien Brody as Luca Changretta in 'Peaky Blinders'. Image Source: Mind Life TV

Sharing about his character on Peaky Blinders, Adrien Brody said, “It doesn’t get much better than that especially when it’s someone as accomplished and talented as Steven Knight, who wrote a role that rivals most gangster characters that you’ve seen. I’ve dreamt of playing that character as well. I wouldn’t have necessarily dreamt of writing that, so to speak, but I dreamt of finding, tonally, a role that was just like Luca Changretta. And it was such a fun thing to do. I felt welcomed. To jump on a show that you love with great writing and so many prime actors involved is exciting.”

Talking about having a chance to direct a movie, Adrien said, “I would love to direct, but the timing has to be right. As you know, it’s a very immersive, time-involved process. The luxury of being an actor is that you can become a character and let go of that, but the director really has to hold on to everybody and everything for so long and really carry it. But I feel very ready for that, and I’m very blessed to have worked with some of the greatest directors ever. Clean is already a big step toward understanding what I’m able to do and what I’m able to endure, and I have a lot of creative yearnings that I want to share with people. I’m so grateful that I’m still able to do that after many years and that it’s blossoming.”

Adrien also shared with the publication that for his role as a waste collector in Clean, he did learn how to drive and operate a garbage truck with the help of Travis Bliss who is the owner of Bliss Environment Services. He further added, “I spent a lot of time with some of his drivers and I did routes with them. I could pick up those giant bins, load them up myself, bring them down and dump the trash. I had to do it with my eyes closed, basically, because we were doing dialogue scenes and I was acting. This is independent moviemaking; I didn’t have time to mess around on the day, so I had to learn the craft. It’s funny, I considered being a trash collector at a very young age because a friend of mine, his father, was a garbage man, and I found out at a very young age that it was a decent living. I had wanted to be a space scientist, but I realized that my math levels were just terrible and that I would never be a space scientist. So my next thought was, “I guess I could be a garbage man,” and there you have it. I actually told that story to Paul as we were doing this. I was like, “I actually dreamt of this as a young, young child.”

For Clean, Adrien Brody has even composed the music and score and shared that with this movie’s score he allowed himself to go deep and burrow into the character. The actor shared that The Pianist prompted him to create music for Clean and said, “I have been making music since I was 19. I haven't done anything with it cohesively. I make beats, I sequence music, and I compose with digital music making equipment and it's a collage of sounds. What I understand about myself and the music that comes out of me is a similar melancholy longing as some of the characters I gravitate towards. As I was filming, I would come home and as a meditation, I would make music, and that haunted yet driving rhythmic structure is within me and my work. I'm a painter as well. It's in my artwork. It felt very right emotionally, and it felt like it would enhance the storytelling. So, I came up with a theme for "Clean" and started making moments and feelings and ultimately felt that this was the perfect opportunity for my music.”

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