A reggae station.

Ya man, you'll be listening to the island music.

I'm Adrian Brody. We are sitting tonight and we have a special rapper in the house tonight. Adrian in the house. He built a house. Well, not so much. He had a house, no castle, it was. Then he said, "Let's fix this up." I am here with the um actor from Tangled, Adrian Brody. There was a little set up to that. The your inspiration behind the film. I just realized that you on paper, if I was bringing you home to mom, he's an Oscar winner. He has a castle and he does his own plumbing and carpentry. It's a real man. You're like the you're like the perfect guy. Oh yeah, the real deal. And he's got relatively good interior design taste for a straight man. Interior design, he's a straight man. What more I mean he's like on paper, you're the perfect man.

On paper.

On paper.

I'm sure of it. Far from perfect.

Well, buying a castle and renovating it, that's quite a romantic situation.

I'm a romantic and a dreamer, and that that might be good on paper as well.

That's we're adding it to the list. We'll just keep going down the list as the interview goes on. We'll check, you know, all the boxes.

Pro and con list as well and plenty of negatives.

Well we'll try to find out some of your cons too. So you found this castle in upstate New York?

Yes, it's an old stone barn that's reminiscent of a castle. It's a turn of the century stone structure and really a remarkable work of art.

How did you stumble on it?

I'd actually surprised my then-girlfriend on her birthday that, you know, I told her we were renting a place up in the country and I had already dealt with everything and hiding in the other room when the attorney's trying to close it, and it was crazy.

That's five checks right there. I'm gonna give you five for that. Five points.

It was good. It was good. Um, I found it. I was on location in Belgrade and found it online.

Oh wow.

I called my dad to go see it and he was like, "I'm not you deal with this. I'm I have nothing to do with this. This is crazy. I'm not a way too big of an endeavor." He was right. Seven years. Ah, yeah. To renovate it. Seven years, yeah, to basically get it to where it is today. I wanted to complete the narrative of the documentary already, uh, to kind of put it to rest in a way.

Yeah. You are one of those actors who people people will say, "When you do a role, you get consumed by it. You you down to the last hair on your head become the character." Are you the same in renovating a home? Were you consumed by it?

I guess I yeah, I have the same kind of uh sorry. I guess I, yeah. I guess I have the same kind of of Sorry. Playing footsie in an interview off camera. Check. Um, I do tend to go all in. I'm kind of obsessive by nature, I guess, in in that sense. I'm committed and I'm tenacious and so I think you need those qualities to pursue anything that you're passionate about. I don't pursue everything with that, but Yeah.

Well, you wouldn't have time.

My work, I wouldn't have time. I don't really have the time to do these endeavor seven year home renovation, try to keep an acting career afloat either. But I should be committed, so committed that. I was so focused on prevailing and surmounting the challenges. The interesting thing was that this was so much more complicated than I set out, than I understood it to be. It kind of parallels my own success story, which I was kind of running away from in a way at the same time. So this was at the height of my awareness of me now, that Adrian Brody, as people perceive me to be. And I wanted to kind of step back and, you know, get in a pickup truck and work on a house and

And look good doing it. Well,

That was for sure.

Well, I read that it really changed your perception. In those seven years, it changed you and you felt like you grew up in a lot of ways. I was watching last night on YouTube in researching. I came across your Oscar speech. Oh. And it was such a moment and people were so genuinely happy for you. When you were cutting to Jack Nicholson in the audience and whoever. You had a standing ovation. If you were to watch that, how do you see that now?

Um, Well, that is me. I mean, that is, you know, that is something I did not want to lose. Part of the realization is that I I am still that man. And I managed to maintain that 12 years after that day. It was all new to me the attention that ensued the night of that moment, that triumphant moment. And then all of a sudden the world had become aware of me. And, you know, the following that I went to dinner with my parents and we said, you know, Brody party of three. And the the hostess looked at me strange and sat us down and the entire restaurant stood up and gave us a standing ovation. And I had been kicking around for 17 years as an actor and working professionally and it was night and day. And so, as beautiful as that is, and as, you know, such an outpouring of of appreciation for your work. Again, I wanted to make sure that I was structurally sound, just like I needed to make sure that this castle was structurally sound.

I want to know when you're going to do when you're going to voice an animated movie.

I would I would love to. I mean, I think I think I'd be right up my alley.

Or or a radio announcer.

A reggae station. Ya man, you'll be listening to the island music. I'm Adrian Brody. We are sitting tonight and we have a special rapper in the house tonight.

Special guest rapper. A couple more things. Um, Hip-Hop. You do beats for Hip-Hop songs. Is this?

I've been making music for a very long time. That's another thing that people are like, "Whoa, that's very strange." You can maybe be a pianist and you make like what you rap like I produce music, I'm

Right. I was I was so ready to go. Yeah. If you threw down a beat, I will rap for you. I got the phone ready when I hear something. It'd be really fun. Oh my gosh. Yo. Adrian in the house. He built a house. Well, not so much. He had a house. No castle it was. Then he said, "Let's fix this up," kind of like this room. Now here he sits. He's transformed. Seven years it took him to do it. Richard Linkletter gave him some advice. He took 12 years. This man did it in seven. How am I doing?

Awesome. Braver than me.