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Brady Corbet knows backlash can be brutal.
That’s why The Brutalist director has come to Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones‘ defense after it was revealed that AI tools were used to enhance the actors’ Hungarian dialect.
“Adrien and Felicity’s performances are completely their own,” Corbet said in a Jan. 20 statement to The Hollywood Reporter. “They worked for months with dialect coach Tanera Marshall to perfect their accents. Innovative Respeecher technology was used in Hungarian language dialogue editing only, specifically to refine certain vowels and letters for accuracy.”
He added that “no English language was changed” through AI technology.
“This was a manual process, done by our sound team and Respeecher in post-production,” Corbet explained of how the Hungarian dialogue was manipulated. “The aim was to preserve the authenticity of Adrien and Felicity’s performances in another language, not to replace or alter them and done with the utmost respect for the craft.”
