“The Brutalist,” considered by many to be a frontrunner for this year’s Academy Awards, has been racking up more than just awards recently. The epic drama recently found itself at the center of one of the most controversial conversations in Hollywood after the film’s editor and director revealed artificial intelligence was used to enhance the Hungarian spoken by the two lead actors, Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones.
Following a Hungarian Jewish architect (Brody) who survived the Holocaust and immigrated to America where he struggles and strives to make a name for himself, language is at the center of “The Brutalist.”
It’s so central that the production partnered with Ukrainian software company Respeecher to tweak and augment Brody and Jones’ Hungarian to ensure they sounded like native speakers, the film’s editor, Dávid Jancsó, revealed to Red Shark News.
