Does this case still strike a raw nerve with anyone you met during the course of filming Hollywoodland?
Adrien Brody: It’s interesting because normally there’s a tremendous amount of research done into the details of a case like this. But Alan [the director] and I felt that because Simo wasn’t the greatest detective, I tried to keep my investigation to purely an understanding of [studio boss, Eddie] Mannix and more of the way studios control and the level of that control rather than the details of the case. Q. Do you find that the ruthlessness of studios still exists – but in a different form nowadays? Adrien Brody: I think every individual’s experience is different. I’ve had both wonderful and not so wonderful experiences with the way a studio took care of me, or decided not to and throw me to the wolves, so to speak. Focus, who produced this film, took wonderful care of me in the process of The Pianist, which I had to pretty much single-handedly go out and increase awareness of. At the time, of course, I was not really well known outside of the industry and I really appreciated that. I
