The Pianist: Adrien Brody Sold His Home, Car & Broke Up With His Girlfriend To Get In The Character!

An actor’s dedication is seen for his craft from the amount of prep he puts into acing a certain role. When we talk about going above and beyond in order to get into the skin of the character, Adrien Brody work for the role of Wladyslaw Szpilman in Roman Polanski’s The Pianist is among the top. Read on to know the limits the actor went to for the Holocaust drama that released in 2002.

The Pianist is inspired by the real-life Polish-Jewish concert pianist Władysław Szpilman. He spent two years hiding in the ghetto of Warsaw during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. To feel exactly how his character did, the actor got rid of all materialistic things and broke up with his girlfriend.

Besides practising the piano for four hours daily – on the insistence of director Roman Polanski, Adrien Brody felt that the only way he could understand what it felt for a man to lost everything was to strip his things away from his own and go down to its absolute basics. In an interview with the BBC in 2003, Brody spoke about his prep for his Pianist role.