When Hollywood star Adrien Brody watched  Peter Jackson’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ in the theater, he instantly regretted his decision of turning down the film.

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““I remember going to see Lord of the Rings in the theater with an ex-girlfriend. And she turned to me and said, ‘You passed on Lord of the Rings?!’” the actor recalled. “I remember feeling so stupid. But I don’t think I would have gotten the role of Jack in Peter’s (King Kong). I don’t think that would have translated.”

In a recent career retrospective with GQ, the Oscar-winning actor spoke about Jackson’s 2005 ‘King Kong’.

Brody said King Kong was a wonderful experience for him and he learned a lot about making a big-budget, epic tale. “We had a premiere in Times Square and they shut down all of Times Square,” he said.

Added the actor, “The mayor was there and introduced us to the city. It was a big deal. My face was immortalized on a McDonald’s soda cup. When does that happen for anyone?”

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Adrien Brody received widespread recognition and acclaim after starring as Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski’s ‘The Pianist’ (2002), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at age 29, becoming the youngest actor to win in that category.

Brody is the second male American actor (after Christopher Lambert) to receive the César Award for Best Actor.

Other successful films apart from King King that he did include  The Thin Red Line (1998), The Village (2004),  Predators (2010) and Midnight in Paris (2011). He is a frequent collaborator of Wes Anderson’s, having starred in four of Anderson’s films, The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and The French Dispatch (2021).