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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Adrian Brody Recalls Tupac Friendship · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest Wider and Brody just
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Speaker 1: became one of the only forty six actors to have
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Speaker 1: at least two Oscars to their name after taking on
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Speaker 1: Best Actor for The Brutalist. But many people forget long
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Speaker 1: before he was household name. His breakthrough role came in
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six, a crime thriller called Bullet, alongside a
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Speaker 1: now iconic star Tupac, who was also still on the
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Speaker 1: rise professionally, and Adrian has fond memories of the legendary
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Speaker 1: rapper and their time together, telling Variety, working with Poc
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Speaker 1: was amazing. He was incredibly focused. We hung out a
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Speaker 1: lot when we did the movie. We spent a lot
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Speaker 1: of time together, and he became quite close with our
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Speaker 1: co star Mickey Rourke, who really took me under his
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Speaker 1: wing as well. He already had a big rap career,
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Speaker 1: but he was not the Tupac yet. He didn't even
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Speaker 1: have thug Life tattooed on his chest. Yet. We were
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Speaker 1: writing graffiti together and he would write thug Life. I
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Speaker 1: didn't know what he was referencing. That's Adrian Brody on
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Speaker 1: the bond he forged with Tupac at the beginning of
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Speaker 1: book their careers. His Oscar winning movie Adrian the Brutalist
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