For Brady Corbet, making 'The Brutalist' was a family affair
For director Brady Corbet, bringing "The Brutalist" to life was a family affair. He and his life partner, Mona Fastvold, who co-wrote the screenplay, are both up for Oscars.
It was a rare wholesome moment at what’s typically known as Hollywood’s biggest and booziest party.
Brady Corbet, accepting a Golden Globe last month for directing “The Brutalist,” made it clear just how important his family was to the making of the epic film. As he spoke, the camera cut to three women who helped Corbet build it: “the incomparable” Mary Corbet, who raised him as a single mother; Mona Fastvold, his longtime “muse” and co-writer of the film; and 10-year-old Ada, Corbet and Fastvold’s child.
“I love you so much, Ada James,” Corbet said, looking toward his daughter as she cried tears of joy and relief.
After all, the movie has been part of her life in one way or another since she was 3 years old, Corbet and Fastvold told NBC News in a recent interview at the Breuer Building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The brutalist-style structure, designed by the Hungarian-German modernist architect Marcel Breuer and completed in 1966 to house the Whitney Museum of American Art, will soon become the home of Sotheby’s auction house.
“She’s our partner in crime,” Corbet said of Ada James. “She’s on these film sets, and she’s, you know, with us every step of the way. She’s there with us at the monitor 90% of the time.”
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