Jack Nicholson Asked Adrien Brody To Boycott The Oscars

Should you’re an Oscars nerd — or in the event you simply have a extremely good reminiscence — you then most likely bear in mind when Adrien Brody gained Finest Actor for The Pianist again in 2003.

Brody’s acceptance speech is among the most infamous Oscars moments of all time. Upon accepting the award, he kissed presenter Halle Berry in a fashion that did not look like consensual.

The actor just lately revealed that, if issues had’ve gone slightly in a different way, there’s an opportunity he would not have been there to simply accept the Oscar in any respect.

In an interview with The Sunday Occasions, Brody claims that legendary actor Jack Nicholson invited him and the opposite Finest Actor nominees to his home — and tried to persuade them to boycott the ceremony to protest the Iraq Battle.

Finally, Brody determined to attend. “I mentioned, ‘I don’t learn about you guys, however I’m going,’” he recalled saying.

“I mentioned, ‘I type of have to point out up. My mother and father are coming. This doesn’t come round too typically.'”

“‘You may sit it out. However I can’t.’”

Brody did find yourself mentioning Iraq indirectly throughout his acceptance speech, saying that his involvement in The Pianist “made me very conscious of the unhappiness and the dehumanization of individuals on the instances of battle, and the repercussions of battle.”