at one point in the movie, your character laszlo toth is asked why architecture?tecture? you're a painter. paint me about acting. why acting? >> adrien: i am plagiarizing this, but it beats working for a living. it didn't occur to me before you asked me the question. i am so grateful to have found acting and for acting to have found me. and i do owe that to my mother as well. she had an assignment to photograph an acting school when i was a boy and saw that i love people and study people and human individuality and i would always kind of tell stories and recreate things. and so she just saw that i had -- it would be a good fit for me and it also kept me from hanging out on the streets of queens. so look at me now. >> stephen: anybody else in your family? are you descended from actors? >> adrien: no, although my grandfather aspired to be an actor here. >> stephen: hungarian grandfather? >> adrien: my hungarian grandfather, yes, my mother's father. we are very similar in a lot of ways. he got a job as a tertiary role in a play on broadway, of "zorba the greek," is m

' long tale of love and ambition and a complicated american dream, all centered around one man, laszlo toth draw something and then present it to you. >> he is a jewish hungarian architect who survives the horrors of world war ii and is forced to toil through poverty and rebuild. >> these are yours, yes? >> yes. >> tell me, why is an accomplished foreign architect shoveling coal here in philadelphia? >> reporter: he's hired by a wealthy industrialist to build a massive community center in his brutalist style, a form of architecture that is light on decoration and heavy on concrete. >> concrete, it's not very attractive. >> unfortunately, the building's aesthetic is not yours to resolve, mr. woodrow. >> reporter: to get toth just right, brody drew on his memories of his hungarian grandfather. >> i remember my grandfather's accent was very, very heavy. >> reporter: do you hear your grand father's voice a little bit in this character laszlo? >> definitely. i conjure it up. i also knew every bad word in hungarian as a kid. so i infused some of that in it that's not in the script. >> reporter: t

decades-long tale of love, ambition and a complicated american dream all centered around one man, laszlo tothrld war ii and is forced to toil through poverty and rebuild. >> these are yours, yes? >> yes. >> tell me, why is an accomplished foreign architect shoveling coal here in philadelphia? >> reporter: he is hired by a wealthy industrialist to build a massive community center his brutalist style, a form of architecture light on decoration and heavy on concrete. >> concrete. it's not very a attractive. >> unfortunately, the building's aesthetic is not yours to resolve. >> reporter: to get it right, he drew on his memories of his hungarian grandfather. >> my grandfather's action was very, very heavy. >> reporter: do you hear your grandfather's voice a little bit in this character? >> definitely. i conjure it up. i also knew every bad word in hungarian as a kid, so i infuse some of that in it, it's not in the script. >> reporter: the film received seven golden globe nominations and oscar buzz is high. but at three and a half hours, it requires a commitment. were you at all worried about the d