David Cronenberg suggests that the AI controversy over Brittalist Adrian Brody's Hungarian accent is an issue produced by the campaign of rival Oscar films.
Cronenberg was speaking with composer Howard Shore at the London Soundtrack Festival. Also, in a statement reported by the Hollywood Reporter, the filmmakers “constantly confuses the voices of actors.” Cronenberg said: “There was a debate Adrian Brody … [and] Apparently they used artificial intelligence to improve his accent. I think it was a campaign against brutalists by other Oscar candidates. He wasn't around, but it's very Harvey Weinstein's kind of thing. ”
Cronenberg mentioned the 1993 film M Butterfly. John Lunn performs the song of Beijing Opera performers. “We always ruin the voices of actors. In John's case. [Lone]when he was this character, this singer, I raised the pitch of his voice [to sound more female] And when he was revealed as a man, I lowered to his natural voice. This is just part of the filmmaking. ”
When the line originally exploded in January, brutal editor Dávid Jancsó said in an interview with Red Shark that his voice was combined with film's lead actors Brody and Felicity Jones to use AI tools to create a more persuasive Hungarian accent. Film director Brady Corbett defended the practice in a statement, saying, “Adrian and Felicity's performances are entirely their own. The purpose was to maintain Adrian and Felicity's performances in a different language, not to replace or modify them.”
It was revealed around the same time that similar AI-created hybrids were used to enhance Emilia Perez's Cala Sofia Gascon's singing voice. It was blended with vocals by Camille, the French pop star who co-wrote the film's scores.
This issue didn't seem to have hurt Brody, who won the brutal actor Oscar. However, Jones, Gascon and Corbett were unable to win.
