‘Brutalist’ Director Calls Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones’ Performances ‘Their Own’ [Video]

Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones’ work in The Brutalist is “completely their own,” the film’s director says, despite the use of artificial intelligence-driven technology on their performances. 

Following a Jan. 11 RedShark News interview with The Brutalist editor Dávid Jancsó, which revealed that the stars’ Hungarian dialogue was smoothed over in post-production with speech synthesis software Respeecher, an outcry over the controversial technology ensued on social media. 

In a statement shared with PEOPLE, the award contender’s director and co-writer Brady Corbet defended the decision to modify Brody and Jones’ Hungarian language dialogue “specifically to refine certain vowels and letters for accuracy… The aim was to preserve the authenticity of Adrien and Felicity’s performances in another language, not to replace or alter them and done with the utmost respect for the craft.”

Corbet, 36, said, “Adrien and Felicity’s performances are completely their own. They worked for months with dialect coach Tanera Marshall to perfect their …