“The Brutalist” filmmaker Brady Corbet responded Monday to mounting backlash to his film’s use of artificial intelligence in post-production, arguing that stars Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones’ performances “are completely their own,” despite employing an AI tool to auto-correct their Hungarian speech.
“Adrien and Felicity’s performances are completely their own. They worked for months with dialect coach Tanera Marshall to perfect their accents,” Corbet said in a statement obtained by TheWrap via distributor A24. “Innovative Respeecher technology was used in Hungarian language dialogue editing only, specifically to refine certain vowels and letters for accuracy. No English language was changed. This was a manual process, done by our sound team and Respeecher in post-production.”