Adrien Brody Video Interview On Judging The Bombay Sapphire Imagination Film Series, Playing Houdini

Adrien Brody, who won an Oscar for his starring role in Roman Polanski’s The Pianist in 2002, was named a judge for the Bombay Sapphire Imagination Film series. “I think what’s so interesting about what Bombay Sapphire’s Imagination Series is accomplishing is that they’re encouraging people to be creative and inventive and to use their imaginations,” he told Uinterview in an exclusive interview. “[Imagination] probably what led me to becoming an actor in the first place.”

Brody was raised in Queens, N.Y., where he took an early interest in the acting business, enrolling in acting classes and attending the Fiorello H. Laguardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. He has had roles in the 2005 remake of King Kong alongside stars Naomi Watts and Jack Black and M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village.

Brody’s next project is Houdini, a miniseries for the History Channel. “You might know that I was a magician before I was an actor,” he told Uinterview. “That too has a lot to do with imagination incidentally. For instance, you’re given a trick or you enter a magic shop and purchase a trip, and it’s very basic or it may not be basic, but basically there’s the illusion that you’re to work with and it is up to the magician to come up with the pattern and the routine and they may give you the basic guidelines like a small script and then it’s up to you to run with that so it’s a very similar process.”