Brady Corbet Says He Made ‘Zero Cash’ From Oscar-Nominated Movie ‘The Brutalist’ – The Boston Courier

Brady Corbet says his Oscar-nominated movie has earned him completely nothing.

Whereas “The Brutalist” is critically acclaimed and earned 10 Academy Award nominations final month, together with finest director and screenplay nods for Corbet, he advised Marc Maron on the “WTF” podcast Monday that he hasn’t seen a penny from the buzzed-about drama.

“I just directed three advertisements in Portugal,” he stated. “It’s the first time that I had made any money, really, in years, because both my partner and I made zero dollars on the last two films that we made. … So we just had to live off of a paycheck from three years ago.”

Corbet’s earlier movie, “Vox Lux” (2018), which additionally was cowritten by his spouse and inventive companion, Mona Fastvold, was a important misfire. “The Brutalist,” a couple of Hungarian immigrant fleeing Europe after World Warfare II, earned actor Adrien Brody his first Oscar nod since 2002.

Corbet advised Maron that regardless of the accolades, “having to travel every two or three days” as a part of an awards push has been “less than ideal” — as he stated he isn’t getting paid to take action. The filmmaker additional famous that he isn’t the one one to dwell paycheck to paycheck.

“I’ve spoken to many filmmakers that have films that are nominated this year that can’t pay their rent,” Corbet stated. “I mean, that’s a real thing. You’re not paid to be promoting a film, and if you look at certain films that premiered in Cannes, that was almost a year ago.”

“I’ve been doing this for six months and had zero income, because I don’t have any time to work — I can’t even take a writing job at the moment,” he defined, including that the “constant travel” has him doing press rounds “seven days a week.”

Corbet went on to notice that James Mangold, whose acclaimed Bob Dylan biopic, “A Complete Unknown” — which stars Timothée Chalamet within the lead and earned eight Oscar nominations — has been in the same state of affairs throughout this yr’s marketing campaign for recognition.

“It’s constant travel, but you’re also working Saturdays and Sundays,” he advised Maron. “Like, I haven’t had a day off since the Christmas break, and that was also only four days. I talked to Mangold the other day, and he had just gotten in, he was in Tokyo the night before.”

Corbet likened the previous half-year to “a six-month interrogation” of interviews.

He beforehand labored as an actor, beginning out on “The King of Queens” TV collection and performing in Oscar-nominated movies equivalent to “Force Majeure” (2014) earlier than getting down to make his personal.

Whether or not he and his spouse take dwelling their first Oscar might be seen on March 2.