Brutalist Director Brady Corbet Responds to AI Backlash

Brady Corbett knows that negative reactions can be brutal.

This is why The Brutalist the director came Adrien Brody And Felicity Jones', after it was revealed that AI tools had been used to improve the actors' Hungarian dialect.

“Adrien and Felicity’s performances are entirely their own,” Corbet said in a Jan. 20 statement to The Hollywood Reporter. “They worked for months with a dialect coach Tanera Marshall to perfect their accents. The innovative Respececher technology was used only in editing the Hungarian language dialogues, specifically to refine certain vowels and letters for greater accuracy.

He added that “no English language has been changed” using AI technology.

“It was a manual process, done by our sound team and Respecer in post-production,” Corbet explained of how the Hungarian dialogue was manipulated. “The goal was to preserve the authenticity of Adrien and Felicity's performances in another language, not to replace or alter them, and with the greatest respect for the profession.”