Brady Corbet
Appearances
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
I'm very grateful for that. Thank you.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
Probably a little bit of both. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, the character is an amalgamation of a lot of, you know, real historical figures like Marcel Breuer, Mies van der Rohe, Lachlan Moholy-Nagy, and many others. So it should, you know, evoke a real person. I think that's a positive thing.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
You know, in all seriousness, during Trump's first term, before we had a brief intermezzo... Yeah, you're talking about a billion years ago, way back then? He had a mandate that was called, you know, Make Federalist Buildings Beautiful Again. He's creative. And, you know, it's interesting that 75 years, you know, on, you know, since the term brutalism was coined, it's still so divisive.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
And it's interesting because for me, I really feel that post-war psychology and post-war architecture are intrinsically linked. And, you know, this film is, that's what it's mostly concerned with.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
Well, you know, listen, the Bauhaus was shut down by the Nazis in the mid-1930s. It was predominantly Central and Eastern European Jewish architects and designers that were studying there. And so, you know, it... The mid-century design, you know, it mostly came from immigrant architects. And of course, there was a response to a lot of those buildings and those monuments, which was hypercritical.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
And because the style of architecture was so unfamiliar, you know, communities wanted it torn down and they wanted their new neighbors thrown out.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
Yeah, I mean, listen, I mean, it's two brilliant performers in that scene, Alessandro Nivola and Adrian Brody. And the screenplays are very, you know, precise, mostly because they have to be. The film was shot in 33 days. And because the film was 170 pages long, it wasn't, you know, that much time.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
And so, you know, we don't storyboard mostly because I don't want to adhere too closely to a cartoon. But I want to show up to a space, respond to it, see what, you know, the light is doing, what the performers are doing. And, you know, I just told him I think it would be extremely moving if the two of you are very, very, very physical and very intimate together because, you know,
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
You know, when you see your uncle or your father, you know, the patriarch, when they cry, it's like devastating. You just feel shattered by it because you see it so infrequently.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
So I just thought to see these two, you know, men approaching middle age sort of being that, you know, letting their guard down, especially in the late 1940s because they just can't help themselves because they've missed each other so much. I thought it was quite beautiful.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
Yeah, that's true. You know, I grew up as a performer for years, and I'm sure you've been in this position at some point in your career where you're preparing 13 pages of dialogue.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
Well, you know, but I always think about, you know, you know, dozens and dozens of people's lives that are affected by preparing this material. And usually in the first 15 or 20 seconds they walk in the room, you know whether or not they're right for the role. So I never I want to be respectful of everyone's time. And I only ask people to read more material than that.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
If it's really on the fly, like we're doing a cold reading together, especially with kids, you know, kids don't have a prior body of work for you to reference. So, you know, that process is a bit more significant. But you usually know after a page or two of dialogue, you know, at a maximum. And in general, I just avoid it altogether. We just, you know, make offers to actors we like.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
Oh, yeah, pal.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
Oh, I mean, listen, on the one hand, I'd like to just say it would have been nice to have more money. I don't want anyone to get any ideas like, oh, well, they did that for $10 million, so let's try for nine on the next one. I, you know, I think that it's really just due to our collaborators. I mean, my production designer, Judy Becker, is an iconic designer behind Brokeback Mountain.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
Carol, I'm not there. My cinematographer, Lil' Crawley, and I have worked together for over a decade. We have a shorthand. And most scenes are shot in, you know, one or two shots. I mean, it's shot like a 1950s melodrama. So it's mostly mediums and masters. And where you lose time is setting up a shot. It's not shooting a shot. Shooting a shot takes as long as the scene takes, five minutes.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
So, you know, I prefer to schedule things in a way where we're doing one thing very well over and over again as opposed to 13 things poorly. And, you know, I think that... that we had really great partners on this, producerially as well, that just really understood, you know, what the pillars of the film were and where we could compromise and really understood where we couldn't.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
The film was shot on a large format that was engineered in the 1950s called VistaVision. which is essentially what it does is instead of the film being pulled through the gate vertically, it's turned horizontally so you get more neg area out of regular 35mm stock. I nodded like I knew what you were talking about, but I realized that was... I'm sure that'll probably be cut out.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
I was surprised when I got here and I was the only guest. I assumed I was the second or third guest. And this is why. Do you want to hear more about VistaVision?
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
Your poor audience was expecting Ariana Grande.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
I mean, listen, it wasn't that long ago. You know, in the 1970s, movies like Midnight Cowboy were commercially viable. And I really hope that we get back to that. Our industry changed for a lot of reasons, partially because of streaming, partially because of COVID, partially because of the strikes, you know. And I understand why companies are more risk averse than ever.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
However, if you look at the crop of nominees this year, you know, they're really radical, strange companies. They're strange propositions, which I think should signal for everyone that audiences do want daring, original, provocative films. And, you know, I think it's very... I'm glad you agree.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
You know, I really, you know, I respect audiences and I believe that audiences, you know, are really, really clever and they're more clever than ever because there's so much information out there about how movies are made and there's an awareness of the post-production process and visual effects, et cetera.
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Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet
So, you know, they're really savvy and I think it's important that we treat them with respect.