1 week Ago By — Bang Showbiz
Adrien Brody fought back tears on a visit to a London prison as he prepared to play a man wrongly convicted of murder. The Oscar winner is playing real-life former prisoner Nick Yarris — who spent more than two decades on death row for a crime he did not commit — in the new play “The Fear of 13” at London’s Don-mar Warehouse. He told the Guardian newspaper: “If everybody wasn’t staring at me, I could have just wept because of how soul-robbing it is.
You’re surrounded by all these people who have no opportunity and are all needing love and appreciation and have made some dumb mistake in their life and are being punished for that.” The actor lived in a room above the play’s rehearsal space when he arrived in London, and he admits it was far removed from the idea of Hollywood glamour. He explained: “Theater, you’re living in the attic and you’re working in the basement, and you don’t leave and nobody brings you lunch.
You go out and you’ll get a sandwich at Tesco, and you munch it down and try to absorb all this material and try to represent so much. And you’re with 10 other people doing the same, and it is quite wonderful.” Get local news delivered to your inbox!.
