says adrien brody...

“That suffering has existed for many, many people and still exists. On a simple level, it’s made me appreciate to be able to eat, be with friends, having shelter. These are things that I have taken for granted, and that we have all taken for granted,” Brody acknowledges. He moves onto an anecdote, discussing one of the film’s pivotal scenes where Szpilman has gone many days without eating, himself fasting before the shoot. “I cried because I smelled the bread. I hadn’t had any carbohydrate, any, any, any period. It was a loaf or real baked bread, Eastern European thick hearty bread. I kept thinking what it was like to feel to get this bread. Szpilman was probably more hungry then I ever could have been.”