Adrien Brody in Madrid on January 17.DANIEL GONZÁLEZ (EFE)
Adrien Brody: ‘In the face of rising antisemitism, we have to find again a way to learn from our past’
The actor is the favorite to win an Oscar for his role in ‘The Brutalist,’ where he plays László Tóth, an architect who survives the Nazi extermination and rebuilds his life in the United States
GREGORIO BELINCHÓN
Madrid - JAN 21, 2025 - 13:34 COT
Adrien Brody, 51, finds acting painful. But he likes it. Entering a Madrid hotel room with a reserved demeanor, he clutches his coat tightly around his shirt. His expression only softens when discussing legendary basketball coach Pat Riley, the architect of the Los Angeles Lakers’ Showtime era, whom he portrayed in Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.
Since the death of his wife in 2009, the Irish actor has focused on action thrillers based on the premise “you don’t know who you’re messing with”, such as his latest release: ‘In the Land of Saints and Sinners’
Gregorio Belinchón
Madrid, 3 July 2024
In 2007, Liam Neeson received a curious proposal, an action script co-written by Luc Besson that Jeff Bridges had rejected. After a first reading, it sounded like a “straight to DVD” movie. But the project involved learning karate and moving to Paris for four months, and Neeson fancied both. The fact that Taken became a worldwide success and that, after the death of his wife in 2009, Neeson stopped taking dramatic parts to focus on high-action roles are two twists of fate that no one could have foreseen.
Mearene Jordan photographs Ava Gardner in the mid-1950s.
Four decades by Ava Gardner’s side: love, movies and rebellion
‘Living with Miss G.’ is Mearene Jordan’s memoir of her time as the maid, assistant and confidant of the American actress, who starred in films such as ‘Mogambo’ and ‘The Night of the Iguana’
Gregorio Belinchón
Madrid, June 16, 2022
During a career spanning nearly half a century, Ava Gardner loved, fought, cried, laughed, suffered, had fun and, obviously, also acted. She was a star. Lauded by Hollywood as “the most beautiful animal in the world,” she battled against the norms of her time, and did what she could to improve the weak scripts that – by contract – she had to follow. She even fled to Europe to escape Hollywood’s conventionality.
Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, 50 years of love and artistic commitment
A new documentary series called ‘The Last Movie Stars,’ which was presented by Ethan Hawkes at Cannes, explores the lives of the Hollywood stars, their passion for acting and off-screen disputes
There was a time when there were no bigger movie stars than Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Even now, decades later, these Hollywood icons have not been forgotten. Indeed, a new documentary series called The Last Movie Stars is taking a closer look at the famous couple.
Julianne Moore and Liam Neeson in Jaume Collet-Serra's 'Non-Stop'.
Jaume Collet-Serra, top of the US box office once more
Spanish director’s ‘Non-Stop’ repeats success of 2011’s ‘Unknown’ Both thrillers star actor Liam Neeson
Gregorio Belinchón
Madrid, 6 March 2014
Spanish director Jaume Collet-Serra has reached the number-one spot in the US box office for the second time in his career, once again with actor Liam Neeson, with new thriller Non-Stop.
The film, which is released in Spain on March 21, took in $28.8 million (20 million euros), according to data from Rentrak Spain. It had a screen average of over $9,300, beating out the movie that experts had expected to dominate the box office in Oscar week, Son of God, a cut-down version for movie theaters of a miniseries about the Bible broadcast on the History Channel. That took $25.6 million, despite having been released on more screens (3,260) than Collet-Serra’s movie (3,090).
The 50-million-dollar production is set on an international flight where a mysterious passenger threatens to kill a person every 20 minutes if they do not receive $150 million. Neeson, who starred in Collet-Serra’s previous number-one movie Unknown in 2011, stars as a federal air marshal responsible for security on the plane. Appearing alongside him are Julianne Moore and, in only her second film, Mexican-Kenyan star Lupita Nyong’o, who won the award for Best Supporting Actress at Sunday’s Oscars for her performance in 12 Years a Slave.
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