You’re unable to turn around unless you turn around in one specific way–it’s too narrow of a compartment, so you can very easily get wedged and yet you have to hold your breath as long as possible in order to get the shot in too.”Īdd to the water chamber the experience of hanging from a crane, suspended by the ankles in a straitjacket. There’s both physical and psychological pressure. “The underwater work was particularly challenging,” Brody says, “because it required emotion underwater in confined spaces and completely inverted, which is a very different breathing process and your lung capacity feels different. The Houdini role itself was a physical one, involving hanging upside down immersed in water. “You understand the workings of a trick and you make it your own, you develop a patter and you tell that story uniquely, and that’s what makes a great show and a great magician.” Interestingly, Brody experienced parallels between the process of acting and working in magic. “Not only did I have a fascination with magic,” Brody says, “but I had aspirations of becoming a magician when I was a boy.” Of his Emmy nom for the role, Brody says, “receiving recognition for a heroic figure in my life and for something as meaningful as magic for it to have led me into acting and then led me to ultimately play the key figure in that world is pretty remarkable.”
“Not only did I have a fascination with magic, but I had aspirations of becoming a magician when I was a boy.” Growing up in Queens, Brody would put on his own magic shows as “The Amazing Adrien.” In the case of his 2015 Emmy-nominated role in History’s Houdini, Brody had a genuine, personal passion for the fabled magician, having admired him since childhood. Posted on SeptemUpdated on April 24, 2017Īs the youngest man ever to win a leading actor Academy Award (aged 29 for The Pianist, 2003), Adrien Brody has since then pretty much pleased himself when it came to choosing projects. Adrien Brody conjures his magic childhood in ‘Houdini’: “I was more than a fan” – Emmys
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