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Cori Gonzalez-Macuer on being Adrien Brody’s stunt double - “he was a d*ck” 🍆

September 09, 2024 / 00:52

This episode discusses Adrien Brody's behavior on the set of King Kong, body doubling experiences, and interactions with Jamie Bell and Colin Hanks.

The guest shares their first on-screen experience as Adrien Brody's body double in King Kong. They recount the audition process and the excitement surrounding working with Brody, who had just won an Oscar for The Pianist.

During filming, the guest describes Brody as arrogant and shares a moment when Colin Hanks was grieving the loss of his mother. An opera singer performed a heartfelt song, but Brody interrupted the emotional moment by rapping, which left a negative impression.

This conversation highlights the contrast between the guest's expectations of working with a celebrated actor and the reality of Brody's behavior on set.

TLDR

A guest shares their experience as Adrien Brody's body double on King Kong and describes his arrogant behavior during filming.

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was your first on screen experience being Adrien Brody's body double yeah yeah on King Kong I went to audition I

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don't know how you audition to be a body double it just went on and uh they just

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take photos of you and I just watched him on The Pianist and he just won the Oscar that year and my whole family

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loved him he was coming to New Zealand we knew that he was coming to do kung Kong and everyone was like oh imagine if

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you can work with him yeah got that part and yeah it turned out to be a dick oh really whenever he was on S I was on S

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so we hang out every day for what like a year that we filmed it why was he a deck

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he's just real arrogant I was really good friends with Jamie Bell was Billy Elliot and he was in the movie they went

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away apparently for a weekend in Queenstown and one of the guys Colin Hanks his mom had just died was a real

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like Sumer moment and one of the other actors in he was a opera singer and he set up and did like a apparently amazing

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like opera song for him and then everyone was like that's everyone's crying and then out of nowhere Adrian

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bod gets up and starts repping that just sums it up

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Episode Highlights

Working with Adrien Brody
The experience of being a body double for Adrien Brody on King Kong.
“It turned out to be a dick.”
@ 00m 19s
September 09, 2024
A Surprising Performance
An emotional moment turned unexpected when Adrien Brody started rapping.
“Out of nowhere Adrien starts rapping.”
@ 00m 47s
September 09, 2024

Episode Quotes

He turned out to be a dick.
Cori Gonzalez-Macuer on being Adrien Brody’s stunt double - “he was a d*ck” 🍆
Everyone was crying and then out of nowhere Adrien starts rapping.
Cori Gonzalez-Macuer on being Adrien Brody’s stunt double - “he was a d*ck” 🍆

Key Moments

Audition Story00:03
Family Connection00:12
Filming Friendship00:23
Emotional Moment00:35
Unexpected Rap00:47