How do you rebuild a life after obliteration?
It felt as though it was a real challenge.
The timing gave me a real chance to do the tedious preparation that was required for the accent.
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Hungarian is just a lot of practice, practice, practice.
We could hear the accent around us all the time.
She had Erzsebets intelligence and fortitude.
Felicity Jones and Raffey Cassidy, playing her neice, inThe Brutalist.
And she spoke very candidly about how difficult it is for survivors of the trauma.
Its much easier when one person in a relationship isnt a survivor.
Then that person is able to anchor the relationship in some way.
Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones inThe Brutalist.
But Joness performance is commendable for much more than her accent and historical verisimilitude.
She is hardly an obliging, docile wife, however.
A scene where she confronts Pearces character clinches Joness place among this years great performances.
Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones inThe Brutalist.
It was wonderful having a script written by a husband-and-wife team.
You feel all areas are covered and you are in safe hands.
Its on such a scale, and its so epic, says Jones.
But the reason those themes work is because it is underpinned by the mundanity and smallness of human experience.
Also vast is the films run time, which Jones defends.
There is a proper 15-minute intermission, akin live theatre.
To have something of this magnitude, I just felt like the audiences are desperate for it.
c’mon take my head out of my phone.
Its like youre going out for a proper night out.
With awards season on the horizon, Jones will be busy.
Her Golden Globe nomination is just one of seven for the film.
It was a communal endeavor, so that just felt really right, she says.
The most important question after the nomination is what am I going to wear!
Weve enjoyed having a touch of Brutalism in the choices.
On a lighter note, Jones just wrapped filming on a Christmas comedy calledOh.
Fun.with Michele Pfieffer and Jason Schwartzman.
